{"id":23768,"date":"2015-12-05T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23768"},"modified":"2015-12-05T07:28:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T15:28:34","slug":"weekend-links-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/weekend-links-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In the wake of the foul jihadist murders in San Bernardino, we now have two new categories of weapons, according to politicians and the media. First comes <a href=\"http:\/\/controversialtimes.com\/news\/new-weaponized-term-emerges-from-san-bernardino-shooting-assault-clothing\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;assault clothing&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T DB). Deadly outerwear is followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/pawpawshouse.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/multi-automatic-round-weapons.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;multi-automatic round weapons.&#8221;<\/a> No word yet on what a M-ARW may be. Or on how clothing can kill. But be on the lookout for these new dangers. These are truly perilous times.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2015\/12\/04\/when-suspected-is-close-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When &#8216;suspected&#8217; is close enough.&#8221;<\/a> Scott H. Greenfield is a little behind the curve in some of his information here. But his heart and head are certainly in the right place (Tip o&#8217; hat to S)\n<li>Is Gollum evil? A Turkish doctor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/05\/world\/europe\/is-gollum-good-or-evil-jail-term-in-turkey-hinges-on-answer.html\" target=\"_blank\">freedom depends on the answer<\/a>\n<li>I don&#8217;t agree with everything Ilana Mercer writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2015\/12\/in-the-west-the-inmates-run-the-asylum\/\" target=\"_blank\">in this column<\/a>. Doubt most of you will, either. But she does make some good points about the ineffectiveness of law enforcement in this age where spouting something politically incorrect may be &#8220;worse&#8221; than being a terrorist.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/walking-helps-us-think\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Walking Helps Us Think.&#8221;<\/a> While the article never really answers the &#8220;why&#8221; question, every ardent walker &#8212; particularly any who are also writers &#8212; will appreciate its sentiments. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Finally, courtesy of jb, here&#8217;s a Christmas gift list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/dave-barry\/gift-guide\/article47957150.html\" target=\"_blank\">as only Dave Barry could create it<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the foul jihadist murders in San Bernardino, we now have two new categories of weapons, according to politicians and the media. First comes &#8220;assault clothing&#8221; (H\/T DB). Deadly outerwear is followed by &#8220;multi-automatic round weapons.&#8221; No word yet on what a M-ARW may be. Or on how clothing can kill. But be on the lookout for these new dangers. These are truly perilous times. &#8220;When &#8216;suspected&#8217; is close enough.&#8221; Scott H. Greenfield is a little behind the curve in some of his information here. But his heart and head are certainly in the right place (Tip&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/weekend-links-32\/\">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":[9,11,12,13,16,18,19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23768","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=23768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}