{"id":26052,"date":"2016-07-30T02:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T09:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=26052"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T19:40:46","slug":"weekend-links-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/30\/weekend-links-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2016\/07\/25\/how-the-white-working-class-lost-its-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How the white working class lost its patriotism.&#8221;<\/a> (By J.D. Vance, whose hillbilly roots are not too different from my own family&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<li>Oh wow. Did you know about this? Anybody seen it? Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4642170\/\" target=\"_blank\">have a new series<\/a> that plays on their roles in the late, much-lamented, still grand-and-gloriously freedomista <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000AQS0F\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0000AQS0F&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=livifree07-20&amp;linkId=b28b2316ca2395702652b801eed465bb\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Firefly<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=livifree07-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0000AQS0F\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of rip-roaring, libertarianish fiction, Larry Correia&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2amHXkp\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Hunter<\/a> book is coming out Tuesday. An unusual amount of buzz around this one. Preorders now accepted on Amazon.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydaynodaysoff.com\/2016\/07\/29\/gun-control-and-dick-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\">big weapon<\/a> in the antigunners&#8217; arsenal.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty years ago, libertarians were &#8220;lunatics&#8221; for wanting to end the drug war. Now &#8230; mainstream. Twenty years ago, libertarians were &#8220;crazy and irresponsible&#8221; for wanting to end zoning laws. Now &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-07-27\/zoning-has-had-a-good-100-years-and-that-s-plenty\" target=\"_blank\">the idea&#8217;s being discussed<\/a> on Bloomberg.com.<\/li>\n<li>Are Bernanke&#8217;s (and Milton Friedman&#8217;s) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-point-of-no-return-for-quantitative-easing-is-getting-closer-2016-07-28\" target=\"_blank\">helicopters on their way<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Could the U.S. have avoided the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/quora\/2016\/07\/26\/could_the_u_s_have_avoided_the_civil_war.html\" target=\"_blank\">War Between the States<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Every four years, the Olympics cost cities, regions, and countries more than they earn. Every four years, a new athletic supercomplex begins to crumble into ruin. Every four years thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of poor people and small businesses are brutally displaced for the sake of an international show. Why do so few commentarors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/jul\/29\/the-trouble-with-the-olympic-games\" target=\"_blank\">realize and write about<\/a> the obvious?<\/li>\n<li>Suspicions confirmed: the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2016\/07\/29\/it-turns-out-the-united-states-has-just-one-true-species-of-wolf\/\" target=\"_blank\">has only one native wolf species<\/a>. The other two &#8220;species&#8221; are just the result of coyotes and wolves doing some &#8230; er, heavy partying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2016\/07\/25\/how-the-white-working-class-lost-its-patriotism\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How the white working class lost its patriotism.&#8221;<\/a> (By J.D. Vance, whose hillbilly roots are not too different from my own family&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<li>Oh wow. Did you know about this? Anybody seen it? Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4642170\/\" target=\"_blank\">have a new series<\/a> that plays on their roles in the late, much-lamented, still grand-and-gloriously freedomista <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000AQS0F\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0000AQS0F&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=livifree07-20&amp;linkId=b28b2316ca2395702652b801eed465bb\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Firefly<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=livifree07-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0000AQS0F\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/li>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/30\/weekend-links-41\/\">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":[4,12,18,19,20,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052","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=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26171,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions\/26171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}