{"id":25669,"date":"2016-06-25T18:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25669"},"modified":"2016-06-25T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T01:21:40","slug":"weekend-links-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/25\/weekend-links-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I owe hat tips for several of these items, but I&#8217;ve fogotton to whomm I owe them all, so please accept much general hat tipping.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preferring to avoid negative campaigning is one thing. Libertarian candidates <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/nice-guys-finish-third-gary-johnsons-awk\" target=\"_blank\">sucking up to Hillary on media demand<\/a> is another.\n<li>Don&#8217;t care about the Brexit that&#8217;s consuming the world&#8217;s media right now? Well, how &#8217;bout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-britain-eu-usa-secession-idUSKCN0ZA3F4\" target=\"_blank\">a Texit<\/a> &#8212; a Texas exit? (I&#8217;m amused at those &#8220;constitutional scholars&#8221; who say a U.S. state can&#8217;t secede from the union. The constitution neither said nor implied that; only overwhelming military force said that. Doesn&#8217;t take any scholar to see 600,000 dead people.)\n<li>Following up on Friday&#8217;s Irish rebellion references, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/50-facts-about-the-Easter-Rising-which-began-99-years-ago-today-PHOTOS.html\" target=\"_blank\">50 things you didn&#8217;t know<\/a> about the 1916 Easter Rising. With photos.\n<li>Your computer. In your home. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/06\/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer\" target=\"_blank\">has no Fourth Amendment protection<\/a> if feddies choose to hack it. Dumb decision!\n<li>And biometrics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/22\/business\/dealbook\/goodbye-password-banks-opt-to-scan-fingers-and-faces-instead.html\" target=\"_blank\">march on<\/a>.\n<li>The lefties claim demographics will be on their side in the future. But what if the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2016\/06\/20\/the-new-york-times-shows-why-the-blue-model-is-doomed\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;blue model&#8221; of urban living<\/a> is doomed by telecommuters?\n<li>Wait. Brent Spiner and his Dr. Brackish Okun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/06\/brent-spiner-independence-day-star-trek\" target=\"_blank\">will be back<\/a> in the remake of <i>Independence Day<\/i>? But didn&#8217;t we see him squished to death by an Evil Alien? No, it seems we saw no such thing.\n<li>Humans are funny. It seems people want their driverless cars <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/your-self-driving-car-will-be-programmed-to-kill-you-de-1782499265\" target=\"_blank\">programmed to kill others<\/a>, but paradoxically, not kill themselves in exactly the same situations.\n<li>No-fly\/no-buy equals <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2016\/06\/23\/no-fly-no-buy-means-no-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">no freedom<\/a>, says Judge Napolitano.\n<li>Another amazing sci-med story: surgeons save a baby whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/15\/birth-defect-baby-boston-childrens-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\">brain was growing far outside his head<\/a>\n<li>This is your dog. This is your dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/spaced-out-dog-stumbles-stares-8273309\" target=\"_blank\">on magic mushrooms<\/a>. Any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ub_a2t0ZfTs\" target=\"_blank\">questions<\/a>?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I owe hat tips for several of these items, but I&#8217;ve fogotton to whomm I owe them all, so please accept much general hat tipping. Preferring to avoid negative campaigning is one thing. Libertarian candidates sucking up to Hillary on media demand is another. Don&#8217;t care about the Brexit that&#8217;s consuming the world&#8217;s media right now? Well, how &#8217;bout a Texit &#8212; a Texas exit? (I&#8217;m amused at those &#8220;constitutional scholars&#8221; who say a U.S. state can&#8217;t secede from the union. The constitution neither said nor implied that; only overwhelming military force said that. Doesn&#8217;t take any scholar to see&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/25\/weekend-links-39\/\">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":[4,6,8,13,16,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","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\/25669","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=25669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}