{"id":24749,"date":"2016-02-11T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24749"},"modified":"2016-02-11T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T01:37:14","slug":"end-o-week-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/end-o-week-links\/","title":{"rendered":"End O&#8217; week links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Millennials don&#8217;t yet realize <a href=\"http:\/\/redalertpolitics.com\/2016\/02\/11\/sorry-millennials-dnc-rigged-super-delegate-system-hillary\/\" target=\"_blank\">how fully the political system is rigged<\/a>. (H\/T Shel and jed in comments)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popup-house.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pop-Up House.<\/a>. Low cost, quick build, pretty cool. But why when they tout these things do they always act as if plumbing, electrical work, and site prep don&#8217;t exist?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/health-and-behavior\/maybe-not-but-cmon-take-a-look-at-these-hounds\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Are Pets Really Good for Us?&#8221;<\/a> Heck, yeah! &#8230; as long as we don&#8217;t trip over them or become social outcasts.\n<li>Well, this is depressing. Fear of punishment from a vengeful god turns out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-02-11\/fear-of-god-helped-societies-expand-study-finds\/7155696\" target=\"_blank\">produce social good<\/a>. Not surprising, really. That&#8217;s probably why vengeful gods were invented (by those who wanted to define social good for everybody else).\n<li>Nicki <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2016\/02\/10\/government-health-insurance-the-ultimate-sickness\/\" target=\"_blank\">on government health care<\/a> as the ultimate sickness. Man, such horror stories should have been left behind in the Soviet Union.\n<li>Smart guns, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/smart_guns_are_stupid_science.html\" target=\"_blank\">stupid science<\/a> (and that&#8217;s even without addressing their &#8220;features&#8221; of being hackable and remote shut-offable).\n<li>Just five years old and already the the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/obama-race-nazis-shake-down-toyota-for-22-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">a hotbed of abuse<\/a>, including race-based corporate shakedowns.\n<li>Finally, OK Go does another one of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU\" target=\"_blank\">mind-bendingly memorable videos<\/a> for another of their oddly forgettable songs.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials don&#8217;t yet realize how fully the political system is rigged. (H\/T Shel and jed in comments) Pop-Up House.. Low cost, quick build, pretty cool. But why when they tout these things do they always act as if plumbing, electrical work, and site prep don&#8217;t exist? &#8220;Are Pets Really Good for Us?&#8221; Heck, yeah! &#8230; as long as we don&#8217;t trip over them or become social outcasts. Well, this is depressing. Fear of punishment from a vengeful god turns out to produce social good. Not surprising, really. That&#8217;s probably why vengeful gods were invented (by those who wanted to define&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/end-o-week-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End O&#8217; week 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":[2,4,8,11,12,13,19,25,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749","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=24749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}