{"id":25267,"date":"2016-05-06T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25267"},"modified":"2016-05-06T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:27:00","slug":"end-of-week-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/end-of-week-links\/","title":{"rendered":"End of week links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It is surely a mixed blessing to have time to <a href=\"http:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/a-monumental-undertaking.html\" target=\"_blank\">design your own headstone<\/a>. That&#8217;s a wonderful monument, though, and the Vanderboeghs could use some help getting it made. Kudos to Kurt Hofmann for a quote deserving of such immortality.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/trumped-why-it-happened-and-what-comes-next-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Trump: Why it happened and what comes next&#8221;<\/a> by David Stockman. (How come presidential advisors never sound either this smart or this liberty-minded <i>while<\/i> they&#8217;re presidential advisors? Only afterward?)\n<li>Yes, indeedy. We should always believe our heroic protectors when they tell us they need tools like Sting-Ray technology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/05\/04\/cops_deploy_antiterrorist_tech_against_50_chickenwing_thief\/\" target=\"_blank\">to catch terrorists<\/a>, child-abductors, and the like. Sure thing.\n<li>Herschel Smith says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2016\/05\/04\/bidding-farewell-to-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodbye to politics<\/a>. He and I (and probably you) come from different places in the political spectrum, but I&#8217;m proud to be his friend-I&#8217;ve-never-met.\n<li>Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/city-journal.org\/html\/andrew-sullivans-blind-spot-14431.html\" target=\"_blank\">blind spot<\/a>.\n<li>And you <a href=\"https:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2016\/05\/06\/and-you-think-youre-having-a-bad-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">think you&#8217;re having a bad day<\/a>? (NSFW; it&#8217;s Nicki, after all. But it would still be NSFW even without Nicki.)\n<li>Pro-gun mom whose kidlet shot her in the back <a href=\"http:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/newportrichey\/pro-gun-mom-shot-son-must-take-gun-safety-class\" target=\"_blank\">gets a very fitting alternative<\/a> to criminal prosecution.\n<li>Sometimes even writers at the <i>New Yorker<\/i> think about the real world and ask good questions: What would happen if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/what-would-happen-if-gps-failed\" target=\"_blank\">GPS failed<\/a>? (A bunch of over-dependent individuals should also be asking what they&#8217;d do if their <i>personal<\/i> GPS devices failed. Or why they&#8217;re so dependent on technology that so often misleads them.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is surely a mixed blessing to have time to design your own headstone. That&#8217;s a wonderful monument, though, and the Vanderboeghs could use some help getting it made. Kudos to Kurt Hofmann for a quote deserving of such immortality. &#8220;Trump: Why it happened and what comes next&#8221; by David Stockman. (How come presidential advisors never sound either this smart or this liberty-minded while they&#8217;re presidential advisors? Only afterward?) Yes, indeedy. We should always believe our heroic protectors when they tell us they need tools like Sting-Ray technology to catch terrorists, child-abductors, and the like. Sure thing. Herschel Smith says&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/end-of-week-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of week 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":[7,12,14,19,23,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-home-improvement","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267","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=25267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}