{"id":23689,"date":"2015-11-29T06:27:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2015-11-29T06:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:27:59","slug":"weekend-links-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/29\/weekend-links-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/27\/457382196\/americans-dont-disagree-on-politics-as-much-as-you-might-think\" target=\"_blank\">aren&#8217;t as politically polarized<\/a> as pols and the MSM would have us imagine. Among other things we&#8217;re united in distrusting the government. (H\/T PT)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2015\/11\/los-angeles-bans-highcap-mags-not-1-turned-in\/#ixzz3sjSqZnL\" target=\"_blank\">Turn in your standard-capacity magazines<\/a> orders L.A. gov. Then &#8230; crickets &#8230; Not one. Not a single one.\n<li>The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okwu.edu\/blog\/2015\/11\/this-is-not-a-day-care-its-a-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s not running a day care<\/a>.\n<li>And George Will asks: American higher education &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/higher-education-brought-low\/2015\/11\/25\/a79f118e-92d6-11e5-b5e4-279b4501e8a6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">higher than what, exactly?<\/a>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/negative-interest-rates-in-switzerland-have-made-people-argue-whether-cash-should-be-abolished-2015-11\" target=\"_blank\">push to ban cash<\/a> grows louder as currencies race for the bottom. One difference in this article: it lists various ways people might (and will) dodge the coming cash bans.\n<li>Not related (or is it?): Ross Douthat on <a href=\"http:\/\/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/16\/europes-darkened-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europe&#8217;s darkened future<\/a>.\n<li>Heh heh. This is perfect. Albany, NY, man hopes to draw tourists with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/news\/2015\/11\/28\/Political-corruption-museum-could-become-Albany-tourism-draw.html\" target=\"_blank\">museum of political corruption<\/a>.\n<li>How to prosecute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/27\/opinion\/how-to-prosecute-abusive-prosecutors.html\" target=\"_blank\">corrupt prosecutors<\/a>.\n<li>Kids with dogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningticker.com\/2015\/11\/kids-with-dogs-shown-to-have-less-anxiety-than-petless-peers\/\" target=\"_blank\">are less anxious<\/a> than those without.\n<li>And speaking of dogs, here (courtesy of jed in comments) are many, many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-3327352\/Hilarious-pictures-dogs-no-concept-personal-space.html\" target=\"_blank\">dogs hilarious lacking the concept<\/a> of personal space.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans aren&#8217;t as politically polarized as pols and the MSM would have us imagine. Among other things we&#8217;re united in distrusting the government. (H\/T PT) Turn in your standard-capacity magazines orders L.A. gov. Then &#8230; crickets &#8230; Not one. Not a single one. The president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University says he&#8217;s not running a day care. And George Will asks: American higher education &#8212; higher than what, exactly? The push to ban cash grows louder as currencies race for the bottom. One difference in this article: it lists various ways people might (and will) dodge the coming cash bans. Not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/29\/weekend-links-31\/\">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":[7,8,11,19,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689","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=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}