{"id":24845,"date":"2016-02-20T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2016-02-20T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:42:46","slug":"weekend-links-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/weekend-links-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post this yesterday before home Internet disappeared. But have I mentioned it was a crazy week? So, belatedly, the library&#8217;s wifi system and I present today&#8217;s links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/why-i-left-islam-and-now-help-others-who-are-doing-the-same\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I left Islam<\/a> and now help others who are doing the same.&#8221;\n<li>Learning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/maria-konnikova\/the-secret-formula-for-resilience\" target=\"_blank\">become resiliant<\/a> (even if the trendiest publications are <i>so<\/i> over resiliance).\n<li>Charles Koch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/charles-koch-this-is-the-one-issue-where-bernie-sanders-is-right\/2016\/02\/18\/cdd2c228-d5c1-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">agrees with Bernie Sanders<\/a>\n<li>Modern-day Milgram shows &#8230; well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-nazi-s-defense-of-just-following-orders-play-out-in-the-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">no very big surprise<\/a>.\n<li>But speaking of following orders, what the hell kind of government would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2016\/02\/no_author\/students-never-borrow-feds\/\" target=\"_blank\">do this<\/a> &#8212; or even <i>think<\/i> of ordering thugs to do such a thing??? (<a href=\"http:\/\/mimesislaw.com\/fault-lines\/debt-collection-at-the-end-of-a-gun\/6921\" target=\"_blank\">Another look at it<\/a> with more detail. Both stolen from Wendy McElroy.)\n<li>And speaking of unsurprising things, why are we always supposed to be so shocked when, generation after generation, war after war, the fedgov <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/02\/16\/burn_pits\/\" target=\"_blank\">perpetrates atrocities<\/a> upon its own soldiers, then not only denies doing so, but even denies care to the poor saps?\n<li>And if you prefer more peaceful thoughts, you can <a href=\"www.openculture.com\/2016\/02\/download-hundreds-of-19th-century-japanese-woodblock-prints-by-masters-of-the-tradition.html\" target=\"_blank\">download high-res versions<\/a> of 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints, courtesy of he-knows-who-he-is in comments.\n<li>Finally, I&#8217;m not linking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/467303637\/5-things-to-watch-in-saturdays-nevada-and-south-carolina-elections\" target=\"_blank\">because I expect you to care<\/a> about Nevada or South Carolina caucusaries or primuses. I&#8217;m linking it just because the name of Clinton&#8217;s campaign manager, Robby Mook, always makes me laugh. I mean, is that name straight out of <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i>, or what?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post this yesterday before home Internet disappeared. But have I mentioned it was a crazy week? So, belatedly, the library&#8217;s wifi system and I present today&#8217;s links: &#8220;Why I left Islam and now help others who are doing the same.&#8221; Learning to become resiliant (even if the trendiest publications are so over resiliance). Charles Koch agrees with Bernie Sanders Modern-day Milgram shows &#8230; well, no very big surprise. But speaking of following orders, what the hell kind of government would do this &#8212; or even think of ordering thugs to do such a thing??? (Another look&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/weekend-links-36\/\">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":[18,19,20,23,25,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-religion","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845","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=24845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}