{"id":25861,"date":"2016-07-14T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25861"},"modified":"2016-07-14T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T17:36:11","slug":"thursday-links-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/thursday-links-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Okay, I know we have enough to laugh about with our own politicians. We don&#8217;t need to mock furriners, even if they are socialists. But OTOH, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/07\/francois-hollande-haircut\" target=\"_blank\">the French currently have the biggest elected laugh-riot<\/a>. Love the Star Wars photo.\n<li>So last year, scientists figured out that cinnamon might help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/06\/150615094439.htm\" target=\"_blank\">prevent colo-rectal cancer<\/a> (if you happen to be mouse). Now they&#8217;re saying it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160712214659.htm\" target=\"_blank\">improves mousy learning<\/a>, too. No word yet on how much us humans would have to ingest to get the benefits. (H\/T VS)\n<li>Just &#8217;cause we haven&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/commentary\/the-nations-debt-crisis-just-got-a-whole-lot-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\">heard enough about the national debt<\/a> lately &#8230;\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/437644\/left-wants-old-people-not-vote\" target=\"_blank\">old people should be banned from v*ting<\/a>, what about the young-but-terminally-ill? The left. It really is out of good ideas. (But then, is that worse than the political right, which has a few good ideas but not the courage to stand up for them?)\n<li>And I&#8217;m with Glenn Reynolds: There a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/07\/11\/hypocrisy-climate-change-emissions-consumption-gina-mccarthy-mccabe-dicaprio-lamar-smith-taxpayer-epa-column\/86940890\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>lot<\/i> of stuff that should be banned<\/a> for all those political types who want to go around banning things and otherwise making other people&#8217;s lives miserable.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jul\/12\/democrats-propose-heart-act-keep-semi-automatic-we\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eejits.<\/a> Ignorant eejits, too. Ignorant, blood-dancing eejits, need I add?\n<li>I like this one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/the-working-classes-vs.-the-smirking-classes\/article\/2595871\" target=\"_blank\">mainly for its catch-phrase headline<\/a>.\n<li>Christine D. Shuck, a sometime reader of this blog, has recently published her <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ad5phL\" target=\"_blank\">third SF book<\/a>. You can have a look inside right there at Amazon.*\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/7\/11\/12109786\/dog-death-research\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When my dog died &#8230;&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T MJR)\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* Speaking of Amazon, thanks for the excellent Prime Day!<\/p>\n<p>And thank you for donating to help <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2016\/07\/13\/put-the-foundation-back-under-this-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">put the foundation back<\/a> under this blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know we have enough to laugh about with our own politicians. We don&#8217;t need to mock furriners, even if they are socialists. But OTOH, the French currently have the biggest elected laugh-riot. Love the Star Wars photo. So last year, scientists figured out that cinnamon might help prevent colo-rectal cancer (if you happen to be mouse). Now they&#8217;re saying it improves mousy learning, too. No word yet on how much us humans would have to ingest to get the benefits. (H\/T VS) Just &#8217;cause we haven&#8217;t heard enough about the national debt lately &#8230; If old people should&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/thursday-links-52\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[8,11,12,13,19,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861","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=25861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}