{"id":24190,"date":"2015-12-28T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24190"},"modified":"2015-12-28T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:06:36","slug":"monday-links-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/monday-links-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The five &#8220;best&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jacobsullum\/2015\/12\/24\/the-five-best-drug-scares-of-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">drug scares<\/a> of 2015.\n<li>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/53198-top-weird-science-in-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">weirdest science stories<\/a>.\n<li>Fourteen &#8212; maybe 15 &#8212; ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/scottgottlieb\/2014\/03\/19\/14-ways-to-avoid-the-obamacare-tax\/\" target=\"_blank\">avoid the Obamacare tax<\/a>. (Per A.G. in comments.)\n<li>Thirteen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/advice\/saving-money\/credit-card-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\">things credit card companies know about you<\/a> that might make you cringe.\n<li>Well, thank heaven it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/pomona-search-man-lit-woman-on-fire-christmas-day-cordova-gasoline-363542911.html\" target=\"_blank\">wasn&#8217;t &#8220;gun violence.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Another Darwin Award nominee, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4161758\/man-device-san-diego-cliff\/\" target=\"_blank\">absorption in mobile device<\/a>. How embarrassing to die of pure stupid. But hey &#8212; at least it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;gun violence&#8221;!\n<li>In praise <a href=\"http:\/\/foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com\/the-navy-seals-may-have-selected-a-new-pistol-of-choice-1749620057\" target=\"_blank\">of Glock<\/a>.\n<li>Ross Douthat on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/27\/opinion\/sunday\/cracks-in-the-liberal-order.html\" target=\"_blank\">cracks in the liberal order<\/a>. Not meaning &#8220;liberal&#8221; as in that thing that &#8220;progressives&#8221; don&#8217;t want to be called these days, but &#8220;liberal&#8221; as in some fundamental values of western civ and western gov.\n<li>Forget mere Pastafarianism. In some parts of the world it&#8217;s better to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/12\/tax-iceland-zuism\/421647\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Zuist<\/a>.\n<li>Cool photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/futuristic-homes-photos-2015-12\" target=\"_blank\">small, futuristic houses<\/a>. Gotta laugh at the assertion that these are all &#8220;cheap,&#8221; though. The first one pictured <i>starts<\/i> at more than $300k, and that probably doesn&#8217;t include the land. But they&#8217;re all fascinating and some of them actually are budget-minded.<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five &#8220;best&#8221; drug scares of 2015. This year&#8217;s weirdest science stories. Fourteen &#8212; maybe 15 &#8212; ways to avoid the Obamacare tax. (Per A.G. in comments.) Thirteen things credit card companies know about you that might make you cringe. Well, thank heaven it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;gun violence.&#8221; Another Darwin Award nominee, courtesy of absorption in mobile device. How embarrassing to die of pure stupid. But hey &#8212; at least it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;gun violence&#8221;! In praise of Glock. Ross Douthat on cracks in the liberal order. Not meaning &#8220;liberal&#8221; as in that thing that &#8220;progressives&#8221; don&#8217;t want to be called these&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/monday-links-69\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[2,7,9,11,12,13,19,25,28,29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","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\/24190","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=24190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}