{"id":2277,"date":"2010-09-17T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T18:11:45","slug":"friday-fixins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/friday-fixins\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fixin&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Paul Bonneau tells philosophical libertarians they should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strike-the-root.com\/become-dangerous\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Become Dangerous.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li> Jim Bovard sez it&#8217;s time to get rid of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/15\/abolish-the-phony-privacy-board\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\">phony-baloney federal privacy board<\/a>.\n<li>I don&#8217;t have any advice for anybody, but I do have a question. I&#8217;ve found that, when it&#8217;s the right time for me to do something (make a decision, write an article, or whatever), suddenly that thing will come easy. In fact, a decision I&#8217;ve struggled with or an article I&#8217;ve been banging my head on or avoiding will abruptly just fling itself into my face, ready-made. But &#8212; even in small things &#8212; if the time isn&#8217;t right, it&#8217;s almost as if a physical force is holding me back. If I attempt to do something &#8220;before its time&#8221; I may become sleepy, clumsy, angry, stupid, or just generally frustrated. I&#8217;ve been experiencing a lot of that as I deal with all the house move-in stuff. I&#8217;m used to it on big decisions, but I&#8217;m noticing lately that even on the smallest things (e.g. giving people my change of address or new phone number) &#8230; when the time&#8217;s not right, I just plain can&#8217;t do it. But then, a moment comes (usually out of the blue), and it&#8217;s easy. Five minutes worth of work. So the question: Does anybody else deal with this kind of mental resistance as a regular thing?\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>, a nicely brain-enhancing essay: <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/underwear-bleach-and-rise-of-sarah.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Underwear, bleach, and the rise of Sarah Palin.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>And finally, here&#8217;s another of my favorite (as well as one of the most remarkable and most sad) historic &#8220;footnote people&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_James_Siddis\" target=\"_blank\">William James Sidis<\/a>. The Wikipedia entry doesn&#8217;t really convey just how remarkable or how sad his life was. For that, you&#8217;d need to read the excellent biography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0525244042?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0525244042\"><i>The Prodigy<\/I><\/a> by Amy Wallace. (<a href=\"http:\/\/hiqnews.megafoundation.org\/William_Sidis.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a review that also gives a good overview of Sidis&#8217; life.<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bonneau tells philosophical libertarians they should &#8220;Become Dangerous.&#8221; Jim Bovard sez it&#8217;s time to get rid of the phony-baloney federal privacy board. I don&#8217;t have any advice for anybody, but I do have a question. I&#8217;ve found that, when it&#8217;s the right time for me to do something (make a decision, write an article, or whatever), suddenly that thing will come easy. In fact, a decision I&#8217;ve struggled with or an article I&#8217;ve been banging my head on or avoiding will abruptly just fling itself into my face, ready-made. But &#8212; even in small things &#8212; if the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/friday-fixins\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Fixin&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}