{"id":25709,"date":"2016-07-02T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25709"},"modified":"2016-07-02T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:01:12","slug":"weekend-links-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/weekend-links-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How J.R.R. Tolkein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/03\/opinion\/sunday\/how-jrr-tolkien-found-mordor-on-the-western-front.html\" target=\"_blank\">found Mordor<\/a> on the Western Front. Simplistic. But with the 100th anniversary of the unthinkable Battle of the Somme, apropos.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/how-everyone-looks-bad-because-bill-clinton-met-with-loretta-lynch\/2016\/07\/02\/a7807adc-3ff4-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bill and Loretta<\/a>. Yeah, I suppose it&#8217;s possible that they really did talk about their families, as Lynch insists with a wink-wink, nod-nod. If so, the conversation probably went <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2016\/07\/02\/lynch-visits-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">like this<\/a>.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/2016\/07\/triple-lens-camera-for-galaxy-note-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">icky privacy news<\/a>. And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sahilrizwan\/this-dude-made-a-trippy-ass-scarf-that-makes-it-impossible-t\" target=\"_blank\">somewhat better<\/a>. (H\/T jc2k in comments)\n<li>What a cesspit and an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/07\/america-revolution-independence-philadelphia-colony-archaeology-garbage-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">illegal tavern<\/a> tell us about American revolutionary history.\n<li>Anybody here still living in California? Plan to continue there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2016\/07\/01\/brown-vetoes-4-gunpocalypse-bills-signs-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">after this<\/a>? And how on earth is that background-check-and-registration-for-ammo going to work? Well, of course ultimately it&#8217;s <i>not<\/i> going to work (except in the sense of keeping people from buying cartridges, which is surely the real point). But I&#8217;m trying to think of the costs, the backlogs, the bureaucratic screwups, the unwillingness of FFLs to want to bother, the entirely new bunch of tax-suckers this will require. (It&#8217;s not clear from what I&#8217;ve read whether the b-c-a-r-f ammo provision will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redding.com\/news\/local\/Gov-Jerry-Brown-signs-vetoes-bills-from-Legislature-gun-control-package-385232041.html\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately go into effect<\/a>.)\n<li>And after that load of disgustingness, we close &#8212; and cleanse our spirits &#8212; with some <a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-3S4zImgMR6w\/V3VmoUNranI\/AAAAAAAAhoo\/bfcg8Rg_K0MkhB6rB0XczU1XVJeEiENmACLcB\/s1600\/13567128_264850760542743_4748670391662566171_n.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful courage and inspiration<\/a> from Mike Vanderboegh.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How J.R.R. Tolkein found Mordor on the Western Front. Simplistic. But with the 100th anniversary of the unthinkable Battle of the Somme, apropos. Bill and Loretta. Yeah, I suppose it&#8217;s possible that they really did talk about their families, as Lynch insists with a wink-wink, nod-nod. If so, the conversation probably went like this. The icky privacy news. And the somewhat better. (H\/T jc2k in comments) What a cesspit and an illegal tavern tell us about American revolutionary history. Anybody here still living in California? Plan to continue there after this? And how on earth is that background-check-and-registration-for-ammo going to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/weekend-links-40\/\">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":[12,18,19,25,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709","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=25709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}