{"id":25140,"date":"2016-04-17T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25140"},"modified":"2016-04-17T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:16:12","slug":"weekend-links-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/17\/weekend-links-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You recall DiFi&#8217;s insane and impossible encryption bill? Well, the second draft is out and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/04\/13\/burr_feinstein_antiencryption_bill_is_out\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s gotten even worse<\/a>. These loons actually believe if you simply order someone to do the impossible, it must be done.\n<li>Being so right and so wrong at the same time. Yes, it&#8217;s getting scary out there. Yes, it&#8217;s amazing how fast it&#8217;s happening. But no, it&#8217;s not caused by the mysterious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/14\/opinion\/the-death-of-liberalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">collapse of Francis Fukuyama-style &#8220;liberalism&#8221;<\/a> nor is it because the ordinary processes of civilization are too commonplace and boring.\n<li>Legalization is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/04\/maine-judge-reverses-state-decision-to-keep-marijuana-legalization-off-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\">back on the ballot<\/a> in Maine.\n<li>Two interesting takes on the transgender bathroom wars: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/14\/why_the_transgender_bathroom_wars_matter__130282.html\" target=\"_blank\">why the wars matter<\/a> by Heather Wilhelm and <a href=\"https:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2016\/04\/13\/the-bathroom-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">why maybe not so much<\/a> by Nicki Kenyon.\n<li>In news of the weird: The CIA&#8217;s venture capital outfit is <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/08\/cia-skincare-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\">funding a skin-care product<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>In news of the perhaps even weirder: Oblivious couple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/2016\/04\/14\/kissing-couple-misses-armed-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">takes condition white<\/a> to a ridiculous extreme.\n<li>And speaking of ridiculous extremes: Your houseplants can now have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2016\/04\/15\/tiny_treehouses_for_houseplants_by_jedediah_corwyn_voltz.html\" target=\"_blank\">tiny treehouses<\/a> of their very own.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You recall DiFi&#8217;s insane and impossible encryption bill? Well, the second draft is out and it&#8217;s gotten even worse. These loons actually believe if you simply order someone to do the impossible, it must be done. Being so right and so wrong at the same time. Yes, it&#8217;s getting scary out there. Yes, it&#8217;s amazing how fast it&#8217;s happening. But no, it&#8217;s not caused by the mysterious collapse of Francis Fukuyama-style &#8220;liberalism&#8221; nor is it because the ordinary processes of civilization are too commonplace and boring. Legalization is back on the ballot in Maine. Two interesting takes on the transgender&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/17\/weekend-links-37\/\">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":[5,7,10,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140","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=25140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}