{"id":23579,"date":"2015-11-21T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23579"},"modified":"2015-11-21T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T20:45:09","slug":"weekend-links-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/weekend-links-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>For some reason, the NRA sat on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americas1stfreedom.org\/articles\/2015\/11\/12\/exclusive-we-test-the-armatix-ip1-the-not-so-smart-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\">review of the notorious Armatrix iP1<\/a> &#8220;smart&#8221; gun and just recently released it. They probably didn&#8217;t mean it to be hilarious, but it is.\n<li>Ten ways to lessen your chances <a href=\"http:\/\/bearingarms.com\/ten-ways-avoid-killed-terrorist-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">of being killed<\/a> in a terrorist attack.\n<li>#BlackLivesMatter may get all the press, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2015\/11\/20\/determined-georgia-mom-21-finishes-college-exam-while-in-labor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tommitrise Collins<\/a>, college student and new mother, is a lot more impressive.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a> found this one first, but it should be spread far and wide: thanks to asset forfeiture, U.S. cops <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/american-cops-steal-property-burglars-combined\/#ouThSTG54SSkOfX1.99\" target=\"_blank\">now steal more property<\/a> than all the nation&#8217;s burglars combined.\n<li>What <i>The Hunger Games<\/i> movies say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-with-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-theaters-katniss-feminism-lawrence-20151119-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">about feminism and war<\/a>. I read this week that Jennifer Lawrence was initially frustrated with her character Katniss&#8217; reluctance to fight and to lead, but eventually came to understand that it&#8217;s one of the character&#8217;s great strengths.\n<li>Newly discovered spider named after a <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> character. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/11\/151119-lord-of-the-rings-arachnid-smeagol-harvestmen-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">No, not Shelob.<\/a>\n<li>Well, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/obama-fire-dea-head-for-calling-medical-marijuana-a-joke\" target=\"_blank\">one good reason<\/a> to fire the head of the DEA. But somehow it hardly seems the biggest reason (to fire the head of the DEA, send all its agents off to work at McDonalds, burn the agency to the ground, and salt the land on which it stood).\n<li>And speaking of the progress on pot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/11\/canada-officially-begins-move-toward-legalizing-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">good on you Canadians<\/a>.\n<li>Hillary: She Who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/427378\/stop-mocking-hillary-or-else\" target=\"_blank\">Must Not Be Mocked<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2015\/11\/20\/newsflash-hillary-has-no-sense-of-humor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicki&#8217;s take<\/a> on the mysterious phone call. And the video some Hillaryite objected to.)\n<li>Finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/blogs\/dogs-harness-their-inner-jackson-pollocks-in-this-pet-adoption-project\" target=\"_blank\">dogs painting poetically<\/a> and dogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/blogs\/wet-dog-portraits-expose-bath-time-vulnerability\" target=\"_blank\">wet and dry<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the NRA sat on its review of the notorious Armatrix iP1 &#8220;smart&#8221; gun and just recently released it. They probably didn&#8217;t mean it to be hilarious, but it is. Ten ways to lessen your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack. #BlackLivesMatter may get all the press, but Tommitrise Collins, college student and new mother, is a lot more impressive. Wendy McElroy found this one first, but it should be spread far and wide: thanks to asset forfeiture, U.S. cops now steal more property than all the nation&#8217;s burglars combined. What The Hunger Games movies say&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/weekend-links-30\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[4,5,8,19,27,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","category-war","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579","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=23579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}