{"id":26159,"date":"2016-08-04T01:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26159"},"modified":"2016-08-04T02:19:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:19:19","slug":"midweek-links-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/midweek-links-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Aaaaaaand, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/harambe-gorilla-presidential-candidate-poll-article-1.2733080\" target=\"_blank\">dead-gorilla vote<\/a> advances in national presidential polls.\n<li>But if you&#8217;re not inclined to v*te for the dead gorilla, Never Yet Melted has the best-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2016\/08\/03\/2016-election-choices\/\" target=\"_blank\">depiction of the mainstream candidates<\/a>.\n<li>Privacy. Comcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-Charge-Broadband-Users-More-For-Privacy-137567\" target=\"_blank\">thinks it&#8217;s a luxury item<\/a> you should pay extra for. (H\/T jc2k in comments)\n<li>Now here&#8217;s an idea: Name various TSA facilities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/monuments-idiocy-14620.html\" target=\"_blank\">after the jerks<\/a> who inflicted them on us. Post prominent signs so people in those three-hour lines could contemplate whom to thank.\n<li>Finally, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isidewith.com\/elections\/2016-presidential-quiz\" target=\"_blank\">political quiz<\/a> with enough nuance not to leave libertarians banging their heads. (You may have to click &#8220;other stances&#8221; to get to the nuanced parts; might depend on your computer&#8217;s settings.)\n<li>Keeping it simple, let&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/37067-surveillance-of-everyone-europe-s-proposed-smart-borders-would-automatically-monitor-individuals\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;smart surveil&#8221; everybody<\/a>.\n<li>I know you&#8217;ll be shocked &#8230; simply shocked. But a GAO report says the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/08\/02\/the-atf-is-illegally-hoarding-american-gun-owners-personal-information\/\" target=\"_blank\">ATF is breaking the law<\/a> keeping records on people.\n<li>Cool story: How a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-a-champagneladen-steamship-ended-up-in-a-kansas-cornfield\" target=\"_blank\">steamship ended up in a Kansas cornfield<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Aaaaaaand, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/harambe-gorilla-presidential-candidate-poll-article-1.2733080\" target=\"_blank\">dead-gorilla vote<\/a> advances in national presidential polls.\n<li>But if you&#8217;re not inclined to v*te for the dead gorilla, Never Yet Melted has the best-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2016\/08\/03\/2016-election-choices\/\" target=\"_blank\">depiction of the mainstream candidates<\/a>.\n<li>Privacy. Comcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/Comcast-Says-It-Wants-to-Charge-Broadband-Users-More-For-Privacy-137567\" target=\"_blank\">thinks it&#8217;s a luxury item<\/a> you should pay extra for. (H\/T jc2k in comments)\n<li>Now here&#8217;s an idea: Name various TSA facilities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/monuments-idiocy-14620.html\" target=\"_blank\">after the jerks<\/a> who inflicted them on us. Post prominent signs so people in those three-hour lines could contemplate whom to thank.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/midweek-links-27\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,12,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","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\/26159","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=26159"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26170,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26159\/revisions\/26170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}