{"id":2513,"date":"2010-10-12T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2010-10-12T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:17:39","slug":"tuesday-miscellany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/tuesday-miscellany-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Groan. <i>Time<\/i> magazine is going hysterical on its cover &#8212; again. And <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/if-the-militias-are-on-times-c\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s about militias<\/a>. Again. Jesse Walker shreds &#8217;em.\n<li>Dropped into the comments section by Philalethes, but far too funny to be buried there: The Mortgage Bankers Association, which rails against strategic defaults &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-october-7-2010\/mortgage-bankers-association-strategic-default\" target=\"_blank\">strategically defailts<\/a>. (Video.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/10\/business\/economy\/10view.html?_r=1&#038;scp=2&#038;sq=n.%20gregory%20mankiw&#038;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I can afford higher taxes. But they&#8217;ll make me work less.&#8221;<\/a> Hm. Ya don&#8217;t say. (Actually, there&#8217;s some pretty good analysis here that makes the impact of taxes on high-income people look even more painful than we already know.)\n<li>&#8220;Abolish drunk driving laws!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/10\/11\/abolish-drunk-driving-laws\" target=\"_blank\">Sez Radley Balko.<\/a>\n<li>Per Pat, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_upshot\/20101012\/bs_yblog_upshot\/mcdonalds-happy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months\" target=\"_blank\">the indestructable Happy Meal<\/a>. To be fair, though, somebody should try the same experiment with Mom&#8217;s homemade. The result might not be all that different.\n<li>I really like John Tamny. Especially when he&#8217;s asking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2010\/10\/12\/do_we_really_need_a_central_bank__98712.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Do we really need a central bank?&#8221;<\/a> (I think he&#8217;s gonna regret opening this article with &#8220;The financial crisis of not long ago &#8230;&#8221; John. Buddy. We ain&#8217;t <i>seen<\/i> crisis yet. We&#8217;ve only had the warm-up act.\n<li>Editor Dave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2010\/10\/11\/a-chance-to-help-bradford-metcalf-an-american-political-prisoner\/\" target=\"_blank\">hopes we can help political prisoner Bradford Metcalf<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure anybody can. But his is sure a sad case.\n<li>Now this could be interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/million-dollar-idea-toilet-within-a-bag-that-turns-into-fertilizer\" target=\"_blank\">Disgusting. But innovative and useful.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groan. Time magazine is going hysterical on its cover &#8212; again. And it&#8217;s about militias. Again. Jesse Walker shreds &#8217;em. Dropped into the comments section by Philalethes, but far too funny to be buried there: The Mortgage Bankers Association, which rails against strategic defaults &#8230; strategically defailts. (Video.) &#8220;I can afford higher taxes. But they&#8217;ll make me work less.&#8221; Hm. Ya don&#8217;t say. (Actually, there&#8217;s some pretty good analysis here that makes the impact of taxes on high-income people look even more painful than we already know.) &#8220;Abolish drunk driving laws!&#8221; Sez Radley Balko. Per Pat, the indestructable Happy Meal.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/tuesday-miscellany-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday miscellany<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}