{"id":26323,"date":"2016-08-14T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26323"},"modified":"2016-08-14T07:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:39:16","slug":"weekend-links-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/14\/weekend-links-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So, what do you think? Will the <a href=\"http:\/\/pawpawshouse.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/color-me-skeptical.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>new<\/i> corruption investigation<\/a> of Hillary Clinton produce any more political courage or any better results than earlier attempts?\n<li>Although nobody is surprised that the DEA&#8217;s dumb decision on cannabis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emilywillingham\/2016\/08\/13\/deas-marijuana-decision-is-hypocrisy\/#509697928c33\" targt=\"_blank\">ignores medical reality<\/a>, the linked <i>Forbes<\/i> article does a great job of showing just <i>how<\/i> far in political outerspace the DEA is.\n<li>Way, way, way too early to consider this news important to humans. Much more testing to be done. But an already common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat menstrual pain actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/alzheimers-disease-period-pain-drug-cures-symptoms-mice-new-research-shows-2401212\" target=\"_blank\">reversed Alzheimer&#8217;s symptoms<\/a> in mice. Reportedly disappeared them. (Sorry for the ad and the auto-start video; guard against them with AdBlock Plus or your best available blocker.)\n<li>Thomas Knapp says the Libertarian Party should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/08\/11\/why-the-libertarians-should-dump-bill-weld\/\" target=\"_blank\">dump William Weld<\/a> after his foolish and biased anti-gun comments (and for general lying, ignorance, and inconsistency).\n<li>How lotteries are designed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/14\/your-money\/the-billion-dollar-lottery-jackpot-engineered-to-drain-your-wallet.html\" target=\"_blank\">drain wallets for the benefit of government<\/a>. Okay, but they&#8217;re still more honest than taxes.\n<li>Harry Potter was not the only one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/atlas_obscura\/2016\/08\/12\/goa_stones_were_man_made_bezoars_that_were_said_to_cure_posion.html\" target=\"_blank\">to use a bezoar<\/a> as an antidote to poison. (But Don&#8217;t Try This At Home.)\n<li>Commentariat member Pat suggests we make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2016\/08\/12\/hostess-launches-deep-fried-twinkies-exclusively-at-walmart\" target=\"_blank\">this big news<\/a> the first post at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/how-you-benefit-if-the-blog-fundraiser-makes-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\">future forums<\/a>. Those who recall the old ClaireFiles Forums, now the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Militia forums<\/a>, with its bizarrely eternal thread on the topic, will get a smile.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a bonus. How <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/81976577\" target=\"_blank\">listening to Winnie the Pooh<\/a> read Darth Vader lines can scramble your brain. (H\/T RG)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4_iC_3M7L88\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>So, what do you think? Will the <a href=\"http:\/\/pawpawshouse.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/color-me-skeptical.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>new<\/i> corruption investigation<\/a> of Hillary Clinton produce any more political courage or any better results than earlier attempts?\n<li>Although nobody is surprised that the DEA&#8217;s dumb decision on cannabis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emilywillingham\/2016\/08\/13\/deas-marijuana-decision-is-hypocrisy\/#509697928c33\" targt=\"_blank\">ignores medical reality<\/a>, the linked <i>Forbes<\/i> article does a great job of showing just <i>how<\/i> far in political outerspace the DEA is.\n<li>Way, way, way too early to consider this news important to humans. Much more testing to be done. But an already common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat menstrual pain actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/alzheimers-disease-period-pain-drug-cures-symptoms-mice-new-research-shows-2401212\" target=\"_blank\">reversed Alzheimer&#8217;s symptoms<\/a> in mice. Reportedly disappeared them.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/14\/weekend-links-42\/\">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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,19,20,25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26323","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=26323"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26336,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26323\/revisions\/26336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}