{"id":25109,"date":"2016-04-08T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25109"},"modified":"2016-04-08T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:15:13","slug":"friday-links-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/friday-links-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Talk about swords into plowshares! California city government v*tes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/03\/california-city-votes-in-favor-of-converting-former-prison-into-marijuana-oil-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\">turn a former prison<\/a> into a cannabis oil factory.\n<li>Super high-tech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com\/high-spec-tiny-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">tiny house<\/a>. Pretty cool. (Helps to be a boatbuilder and cabinetmaker.) But c&#8217;mon. How much did it cost? (H\/T MJR)\n<li>\ud83d\ude42 How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/how-not-to-take-a-gun-selfie\/\" target=\"_blank\">not to take a gun selfie<\/a>.\n<li>And speaking of selfies, I assume <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/global\/pressrelease\/are-narcissists-more-likely-to-post-selfies-and-care-about-the-feedback-they-receive\/1858\/\" target=\"_blank\">this study<\/a> (which concludes &#8212; wow, whodathunkit? &#8212; that narcissists are more likely to post and crave feedback on selfies) must have been funded by government. Not ours, fortunately.\n<li>And speaking of governments: who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/whos-named-in-the-panama-papers-1768962388\" target=\"_blank\">named in the Panama Papers<\/a>? Named <i>so far<\/i>, we should add. The silence on U.S.-based clients of Mossack Fonseca is like waiting for that second shoe to drop.\n<li>OTOH, the astute Megan McArdle says that what the papers reveal so far is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2016-04-06\/the-panama-papers-actually-reflect-pretty-well-on-capitalism\" target=\"_blank\">positive reflection<\/a> on capitalism.\n<li>Ronald T. Richie. He was the 911 caller who got the perfectly innocent John Crawford SWATted and killed. Maybe he&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/crime-law\/judge-finds-probable-cause-for-911-caller-in-crawf\/nqzq4\/\" target=\"_blank\">finally pay a price<\/a>. Maybe.\n<li>Sheesh. This article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-cohen-why-women-should-elect-women-20160406-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">why women should v*te for women<\/a> makes me not ever want to v*te for a woman again. Well, not that I ever gave a crap about the sex of a candidate. And not that I&#8217;d ever v*te for a woman if the woman were Hillary. Or Dianne. Or &#8230; well, most of them.\n<li>But the good news is that even <i>Salon<\/i> says Hillary&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/06\/hillarys_world_collapsing_around_her_wisconsin_bernies_surge_and_fbi_probe_poised_to_derail_her_white_house_bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">world is collapsing<\/a> around her.\n<li>I really hate questions like this. But with the weekend coming up, here&#8217;s some food for thought during your leisure hours: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are we living in a computer simulation?<\/a>\n<li>Just because we were talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/jerrythegeek.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/flamethrowers-are-not-quite-best-thing.html\" target=\"_blank\">flame-throwers<\/a> the other day &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about swords into plowshares! California city government v*tes to turn a former prison into a cannabis oil factory. Super high-tech tiny house. Pretty cool. (Helps to be a boatbuilder and cabinetmaker.) But c&#8217;mon. How much did it cost? (H\/T MJR) \ud83d\ude42 How not to take a gun selfie. And speaking of selfies, I assume this study (which concludes &#8212; wow, whodathunkit? &#8212; that narcissists are more likely to post and crave feedback on selfies) must have been funded by government. Not ours, fortunately. And speaking of governments: who&#8217;s named in the Panama Papers? Named so far, we should add.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/friday-links-55\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[5,12,16,19,20,23,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25109","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=25109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}