{"id":23480,"date":"2015-11-15T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23480"},"modified":"2015-11-15T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T18:58:36","slug":"sunday-links-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/15\/sunday-links-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I like Ross Douthat. In this day of screaming absolutes he always has a nuanced take on things. But even he says that the current campus crisis is something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/a-crisis-our-universities-deserve.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. universities deserve<\/a>.\n<li>And if anybody had doubts about what a bunch of whiny brats those &#8220;oppressed&#8221; university students at Mizzou are, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/11\/14\/mizzou-campus-activists-and-black-lives-matter-complain-about-paris-stealing-the-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">their reactions<\/a> to the slaughter in Paris. <i>Whaaaaaa-waaaaa, nobody&#8217;s paying attention to US!<\/i> Will the little narcissists ever feel shame?\n<li>Meanwhile at Yale the social justice pecksniffs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/yale-free-speech-protest-ironic\" target=\"_blank\">protest a free-speech panel<\/a>.\n<li>Australia is going to try out a hip, cool, and groovy cloud-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/federal-politics\/political-news\/australia-to-trial-cloud-passports-in-worldfirst-move-20151028-gkkkr3.html\" target=\"_blank\">virtual passport system<\/a>. Think the problem of lost passports is bad? Wait till you&#8217;ve experienced the airport joy of &#8220;the Internet is down&#8221; or &#8220;we don&#8217;t find you in our database&#8221; or &#8220;we&#8217;ve just been hacked.&#8221;\n<li>Okay, I get that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/editorials\/ci_29114684\/rapids-resort-paid-patriotism\" target=\"_blank\">paid patriotism is despicable<\/a>. But why dump on the sports teams and not on the paying Pentagon? (H\/T jed)\n<li>Have a Google account? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/11\/12\/heres-how-to-see-what-googles-sharing-about-you-publicly\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to see<\/a> what they&#8217;re sharing about you. And how to change some of it. A nice nod in the direction of privacy. Nowhere near enough, but something.\n<li>The TOR Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/nov\/12\/academics-accused-of-helping-fbi-de-anonymize-inte\/\" target=\"_blank\">accuses a university<\/a> of selling us out for big fed bux. (Keep in mind that this allegation is unproven at this point.)\n<li>Inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jimdobson\/2015\/11\/05\/billionaire-bunker-inside-the-worlds-largest-private-apocalypse-shelter-the-oppidum\/\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s largest &#8220;apocalypse shelter.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Adolescent uses mom&#8217;s gun to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/11\/11\/authorities-say-south-carolina-teen-used-mother-gun-to-kill-burglar\/\" target=\"_blank\">eliminate a burglar<\/a> from the gene pool.\n<li>Speaking of adolescents and criminals, remember the Barefoot Bandit? Though in his case crime doesn&#8217;t pay, in fact 20th Century Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/article\/20th-Century-Fox-pays-for-Barefoot-Bandit-s-6630420.php\" target=\"_blank\">is paying most of his restitution<\/a>.\n<li>We may not have flying cars, but we&#8217;ve now got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52712-nyc-jetpack-flight-hudson-river.html\" target=\"_blank\">personal jet packs<\/a>! (Via S. who says, &#8220;I want.&#8221;)\n<li>Finally, have a look at a group you might not have known even existed: <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/jail-guards-for-jesus-nyc-veterans-day-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\">jailers for Jesus<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Ross Douthat. In this day of screaming absolutes he always has a nuanced take on things. But even he says that the current campus crisis is something U.S. universities deserve. And if anybody had doubts about what a bunch of whiny brats those &#8220;oppressed&#8221; university students at Mizzou are, check out their reactions to the slaughter in Paris. Whaaaaaa-waaaaa, nobody&#8217;s paying attention to US! Will the little narcissists ever feel shame? Meanwhile at Yale the social justice pecksniffs protest a free-speech panel. Australia is going to try out a hip, cool, and groovy cloud-based virtual passport system. Think&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/15\/sunday-links-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday 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":[6,7,11,12,19,27,28,29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480","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=23480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}