{"id":23729,"date":"2015-12-02T06:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23729"},"modified":"2015-12-02T06:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:37:01","slug":"wednesday-links-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/wednesday-links-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s long. It&#8217;s thorough. It&#8217;s a just-published Cato <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/policy-analysis\/costs-consequences-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\">policy analysis by Dave Kopel<\/a> on the costs and consequences of &#8220;gun control.&#8221;\n<li>And in shorter, rougher language, El Neil excoriates those who would even ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2015\/tle849-20151129-02.html\" target=\"_blank\">useable information<\/a> about firearms. (Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalreview.news-digests.com\/todays-edition\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News<\/a>)\n<li>Canadian judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilized.life\/quebec-judge-fines-man-1-dollar-for-marijuana-possession-1485095627.html\" target=\"_blank\">fines man $1<\/a> for growing pot. Oh, the times they are a changin&#8217;. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>OMG. This article about the addictive Internet is fascinating &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/if-the-internet-is-addictive-why-don-t-we-regulate-it\" target=\"_blank\">until the author gets down to proposing &#8220;solutions.&#8221;<\/a> Then it&#8217;s just creepy, and not because of what the developers are doing.\n<li>Speaking of creepy, <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.wikia.com\/wiki\/Chucky\" target=\"_blank\">Chucky<\/a> is far from the only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2015\/11\/30\/researcher_matt_jakubowski_says_he_hacked_mattel_s_hello_barbie.html\" target=\"_blank\">menacing toy<\/a> these days. Think on this before you give in to that little kid&#8217;s pleas for a connected toy. (And again, it&#8217;s not the alarms over hacking, but the very function that&#8217;s the icky business.)\n<li>They say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/world\/boy-warned-before-fatal-shots-1.1953833\" target=\"_blank\">they warned 12-year-old Tamir Rice<\/a> &#8212; and warned him again and again and again! I&#8217;d love to know how they managed all those warnings in the two seconds they allowed him to go on living. Gotta give the cops credit for careful coordination of their stories, though.\n<li>I&#8217;m a little late with this one, but Jim Bovard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/11\/23\/donald-trump-census-japanese-americans-internment-column\/74214090\/\" target=\"_blank\">blasts the Census Bureau<\/a>, whose lies weren&#8217;t that carefully managed.\n<li>Toddler escapes home while mom naps. Pit bull goes along <a href=\"http:\/\/halopets.com\/pit-bull-stays-with-lost-toddler-until-help-comes\/\" target=\"_blank\">as his protector<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s long. It&#8217;s thorough. It&#8217;s a just-published Cato policy analysis by Dave Kopel on the costs and consequences of &#8220;gun control.&#8221; And in shorter, rougher language, El Neil excoriates those who would even ban useable information about firearms. (Found via Rational Review News) Canadian judge fines man $1 for growing pot. Oh, the times they are a changin&#8217;. (H\/T MJR) OMG. This article about the addictive Internet is fascinating &#8212; until the author gets down to proposing &#8220;solutions.&#8221; Then it&#8217;s just creepy, and not because of what the developers are doing. Speaking of creepy, Chucky is far from the only&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/wednesday-links-34\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[5,8,12,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/23729","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=23729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}