{"id":25079,"date":"2016-04-02T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25079"},"modified":"2016-04-02T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T19:17:55","slug":"weekend-links-and-news-of-the-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/02\/weekend-links-and-news-of-the-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links and news of the weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorrys in advance for being unable to remember now where I got some of these links. I&#8217;ve been saving them up for a while. So thanks to The Usual Suspects. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wanna set up a pot business? Become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-3516262\/Inside-world-weed-nuns-Sisters-run-medicinal-marijuana-business-pictured-smoking-cannabis-tending-plants-making-pot-infused-products-striking-picture-series.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nun<\/a>.\n<li>Chase Bank holds funds and reports customer to the feds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/29\/chase-bank-holds-dog-owners-check-over-pets-name-d\/\" target=\"_blank\">for paying his dog walker<\/a>.\n<li>Joel got to this one first, but it&#8217;s too pure-and-simply wonderful not to re-blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/madworldnews.com\/forest-ranger-hidden-cabin-woods\/\" target=\"_blank\">the mystery of the squatter in the woods<\/a> who came and left with no trace. Ghostery to the max!\n<li>But this &#8230; once again takes &#8220;small-space living&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/nationworld\/ci_29701253\/you-can-live-box-san-fran-400-month\" target=\"_blank\">crazy extremes<\/a>. Only in San Francisco. Or New York City. Or London. Or other places that have become hellholes for normal people.\n<li>Kevin Wilmeth comments on my TZP &#8220;constitutional carry&#8221; piece and gets it exactly right: <a href=\"http:\/\/rifleman-savant.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/clairespective.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The only downside I can see,<\/a> honestly, is that celebrating a good thing for what it is, isn&#8217;t going to help the sort of prag mindset that still can&#8217;t distinguish between long-term strategy and true pre-emptive surrender.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;Sorry, but the real unemployment rate is 9.8%&#8221; Srsly? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/sorry-but-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-9-8-not-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">you think it&#8217;s that low?<\/a>\n<li>Oh brother, someday this crass little millennial will <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/guns-wont-protect-you-old-people-youre-too-old-and-we-1767744515\" target=\"_blank\">regret his stupid, arrogant words<\/a> about old people and guns.\n<li>OTOH &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hngn.com\/articles\/194308\/20160401\/bullet-lodges-florida-mans-testicles-wife-shoots-over-alleged-extramarital.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ouch. <\/a> Stupid, angry people and guns are another matter.\n<li>Finally, an accurate <a href=\"http:\/\/every-blade-of-grass.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/finally-accurate-model-of-united-states.html\" target=\"_blank\">scale model<\/a> of the U.S. government. Only not dangerous enough. Or complicated enough. And more purposeful, even if nobody has any idea what the purpose is.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorrys in advance for being unable to remember now where I got some of these links. I&#8217;ve been saving them up for a while. So thanks to The Usual Suspects. \ud83d\ude42 Wanna set up a pot business? Become a nun. Chase Bank holds funds and reports customer to the feds for paying his dog walker. Joel got to this one first, but it&#8217;s too pure-and-simply wonderful not to re-blog: the mystery of the squatter in the woods who came and left with no trace. Ghostery to the max! But this &#8230; once again takes &#8220;small-space living&#8221; to crazy extremes. Only&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/02\/weekend-links-and-news-of-the-weird\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend links and news of the weird<\/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":[5,8,9,10,11,16,18,19,22,23,25,26,28,29,30,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-government","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-off-grid","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-resistance","category-rural-and-small-town-living","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\/25079","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=25079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}