{"id":24112,"date":"2015-12-26T01:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T09:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24112"},"modified":"2015-12-26T01:44:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T09:44:28","slug":"weekend-links-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/weekend-links-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Father gets into a stand-off with police to prevent a hospital from taking his &#8220;brain dead&#8221; son off life support. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/12\/23\/texas-man-says-he-went-to-jail-for-swat-standoff-that-saved-sons-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Happened earlier this year<\/a> but the follow-up is what&#8217;s making this a Christmas-season story.\n<li>Pot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/front-range\/denver\/volunteers-give-away-free-pot-to-the-homeless-this-christmas-eve-and-its-all-for-a-good-cause\" target=\"_blank\">for the homeless<\/a>. (H\/T jed)\n<li>Also from jed: all the SF books <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/the-multiverse\/2015\/12\/all-the-science-fiction-books-youll-want-to-binge-read-over-the-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\">to binge read<\/a> over the holidays. (Can&#8217;t vouch for them myself &#8217;cause I haven&#8217;t read any of them. If you&#8217;re buying, you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">where to purchase them<\/a>.)\n<li>Dave Barry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/dave-barrys-year-in-review-the-sad-thing-is-were-not-making-this-up\/2015\/12\/20\/5a55390a-993c-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">year in review<\/a>. (I&#8217;ve lost track of the people who&#8217;ve sent this one to me; it&#8217;s definitely been making the rounds.)\n<li>Jim Bovard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/my-raging-bitch-christmas-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raging Bitch Christmas<\/a>. Little hard to picture it, but liberty&#8217;s professional curmudgeon did a stint as Santa.\n<li>I don&#8217;t always agree with Jonah Goldberg. But when it comes to picking the perfect presidential candidate for these times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428968\/2015-review-smod-presidential-endorsement\" target=\"_blank\">he might just be onto something<\/a>.\n<li>Heaven knows why they&#8217;ve tagged this article as &#8220;gun violence.&#8221; There&#8217;s no violence involved &#8212; just <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/americans-want-more-guns-under-the-tree-this-year\" target=\"_blank\">more Americans wanting and getting guns<\/a>. I know a lucky lady (not me) who got a brand new Glock from Santa.\n<li>Speaking of which, don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=2667\" target=\"_blank\">take the TZP poll<\/a> on gun gifting. <i>Even if you already took it once<\/i> you can answer again with your post-Christmas results.\n<li>Awww, that&#8217;s wonderful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petmd.com\/blogs\/thedailyvet\/jvogelsang\/2015\/october\/lasting-gift-foster-care-dying-33237\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fospice&#8221; care<\/a> for dying homeless dogs.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father gets into a stand-off with police to prevent a hospital from taking his &#8220;brain dead&#8221; son off life support. Happened earlier this year but the follow-up is what&#8217;s making this a Christmas-season story. Pot for the homeless. (H\/T jed) Also from jed: all the SF books to binge read over the holidays. (Can&#8217;t vouch for them myself &#8217;cause I haven&#8217;t read any of them. If you&#8217;re buying, you know where to purchase them.) Dave Barry&#8217;s year in review. (I&#8217;ve lost track of the people who&#8217;ve sent this one to me; it&#8217;s definitely been making the rounds.) Jim Bovard&#8217;s Raging&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/weekend-links-33\/\">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":[4,5,8,12,16,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112","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=24112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}