{"id":25499,"date":"2016-06-04T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25499"},"modified":"2016-06-04T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:10:21","slug":"weekend-links-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/weekend-links-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/06\/01\/ticketing-children-for-selling-lemonade-highlights-overcriminalization-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">overcriminalization problem<\/a>. Including the Deadly Lemonade-Stand Threat.\n<li>Oh gadzooks. The sheer chutzpah! The ironic lack of all awareness of irony. Obama uses his accidental prowess as America&#8217;s greatest gun salesman to &#8220;prove&#8221; he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/obama-to-gun-owners-im-not-looking-to-disarm-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">not out to take our guns<\/a>.\n<li>Mostly, &#8220;inspirational&#8221; stories make me gag. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/01\/sports\/bethany-hamilton-world-surf-league.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one&#8217;s<\/a> the real deal.\n<li>Supposedly, this article about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s upcoming legal fate appeared on <i>HuffPo<\/i>, then was quickly pulled. I&#8217;m not sure. And nobody else has picked up on it, so it&#8217;s probably full of major bogusness. But it&#8217;s pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/k1nsey6.com\/2016\/05\/hillary-clinton-to-be-indicted-on-federal-racketeering-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;inspirational,&#8221; too<\/a>.\n<li>He no longer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/muhammad-ali-greatest-all-time-dead-74-n584776\" target=\"_blank\">floats like a butterfly<\/a>, stings like a bee, or defies the government. Muhammad Ali. Dead at 74.\n<li>Hahahahaha. Couric and her producers aren&#8217;t merely lying hypocrites. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/06\/03\/katie-courics-anti-gun-producers-repeatedly-violated-federal-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">gun criminals<\/a>. And it&#8217;s not some obscure bureaucratic paperwork thingie they violated, either, but one of the basic known restrictions (however unjust and idiotic it actually is) on gun purchasing.\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2090136-the-lost-women-of-enlightenment-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">lost women<\/a> of Enlightenment science.\n<li>I am of the &#8220;dogs domesticated themselves&#8221; school, rather than the &#8220;man domesticated dogs&#8221; school. And I figure my ignorant opinion counts at least as much as anybody else&#8217;s ignorant opinion. \ud83d\ude42 But now there&#8217;s an intriguing theory that, no matter who domesticated who, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/06\/the-origin-of-dogs\/484976\/\" target=\"_blank\">it happened separately, twice<\/a> in two far-flung locations.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overcriminalization problem. Including the Deadly Lemonade-Stand Threat. Oh gadzooks. The sheer chutzpah! The ironic lack of all awareness of irony. Obama uses his accidental prowess as America&#8217;s greatest gun salesman to &#8220;prove&#8221; he&#8217;s not out to take our guns. Mostly, &#8220;inspirational&#8221; stories make me gag. But this one&#8217;s the real deal. Supposedly, this article about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s upcoming legal fate appeared on HuffPo, then was quickly pulled. I&#8217;m not sure. And nobody else has picked up on it, so it&#8217;s probably full of major bogusness. But it&#8217;s pretty &#8220;inspirational,&#8221; too. He no longer floats like a butterfly, stings like&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/weekend-links-38\/\">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":[8,19,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499","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=25499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}