{"id":22782,"date":"2015-09-29T01:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22782"},"modified":"2015-09-29T01:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:20:05","slug":"tuesday-links-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/tuesday-links-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Were it not for its nosebleed-high price <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/review-blackphone-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Blackphone 2<\/a> would be starting to tempt me in the direction of a smartphone.\n<li>Here&#8217;s another person who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/09\/27\/college-student-murdered-in-184-found-living-in-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">disappeared<\/a> and still managed to have a regular life. Details, media people. Details, please. (Though in this case the woman clearly doesn&#8217;t want them known.)\n<li>Gun store moves three blocks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/story\/entertainment\/mcfly-report\/2015\/09\/26\/hundreds-protest-firearms-being-sold-by-school-in-mclean\/72882942\/\" target=\"_blank\">Causes hysteria<\/a>. Sigh.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/campaign-help-surveillance-agents-quit-nsa-gchq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nice idea<\/a>. S&#8217;pose it&#8217;ll have any result?\n<li>And sometimes the &#8220;good guy&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/09\/texas-good-guy-with-a-gun-shoots-carjacking-victim-in-head-then-runs-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t<\/a>. OTOH, since he&#8217;s nowhere to be found, how can anybody be sure that the alleged (inept) &#8220;good guy&#8221; with the gun ever actually intended to be helpful? Maybe he did. Maybe the whole situation is other than it appears.\n<li>Okay, now <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> a headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/uk\/news\/meet-the-nepalese-american-death-metal-guitarist-that-just-found-water-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Meet the Nepalese-American death metal guitarist who just found water on Mars.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Will smoking kill you? It may <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/09\/28\/scientists-finally-discover-why-some-smokers-have-healthy-lungs\/\" target=\"_blank\">depend on your genes<\/a>.\n<li>What it is is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/emerging-victimhood-culture-scary\" target=\"_blank\">victimhood culture<\/a>. (I&#8217;m tempted to say, &#8220;But don&#8217;t worry. Victimhood culture can&#8217;t last &#8217;cause it&#8217;ll quickly destroy the larger culture that hosts it.&#8221; How&#8217;s that for encouraging?)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were it not for its nosebleed-high price the Blackphone 2 would be starting to tempt me in the direction of a smartphone. Here&#8217;s another person who disappeared and still managed to have a regular life. Details, media people. Details, please. (Though in this case the woman clearly doesn&#8217;t want them known.) Gun store moves three blocks. Causes hysteria. Sigh. Nice idea. S&#8217;pose it&#8217;ll have any result? And sometimes the &#8220;good guy&#8221; isn&#8217;t. OTOH, since he&#8217;s nowhere to be found, how can anybody be sure that the alleged (inept) &#8220;good guy&#8221; with the gun ever actually intended to be helpful? Maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/tuesday-links-57\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday links<\/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":[7,12,13,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782","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=22782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}