{"id":26431,"date":"2016-08-17T07:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26431"},"modified":"2016-08-17T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:50:08","slug":"midweek-links-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/midweek-links-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Okay, in the great debate over victim disarmament, this is trivial. But still: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/16\/opinion\/get-out-of-gun-control-apple.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Get out of gun control, Apple.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Uh oh. All those Loompanicsy books and articles about hiding stuff in your walls <a href=\"http:\/\/walabot.com\/diy\" target=\"_blank\">just got even more obsolete<\/a> than they already were. Nifty app for home remodelers, though. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>What a beautiful and unusual piece. Wendy McElroy talks about her experiences as a homeless teenager in <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/try-a-little-tenderness\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Try a Little Tenderness.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Well, thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/freedom-fighter-hellraising-author-claire-wolfes-new-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard<\/a>.\n<li>Pretty funny: How a hacker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/08\/17\/tech_support_scam_takedown\/\" target=\"_blank\">scammed the scammers<\/a> who tried to rip off his parents. (Here&#8217;s his <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kwiatkowski.fr\/?q=en\/node\/30\" target=\"_blank\">full blog entry<\/a> about it.)\n<li>If there were frugalista olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/13-kids-13-college-educations-not-rich-retiring-early\/2016\/08\/08\/3abe7cec-38b4-11e6-a254-2b336e293a3c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">this family of 15<\/a> would surely be contenders.\n<li>Nicki on <a href=\"https:\/\/thelibertyzone.us\/2016\/08\/16\/on-dying\/\" target=\"_blank\">choosing to die<\/a> when suffering is beyond tolerable.\n<li>A Goebbels propaganda secretary echoes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=34ag4nkSh7Q\" target=\"_blank\">Sergeant Schultz<\/a> from <i>Hogan&#8217;s Heroes<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/aug\/15\/brunhilde-pomsel-nazi-joseph-goebbels-propaganda-machine\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I knew nussing.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>I know this hilarious story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/stephaniemcneal\/pooptastrophe\" target=\"_blank\">Roomba &#8220;pooptastrophe&#8221;<\/a> is making the rounds. And it is pretty funny. Having once borrowed friends&#8217; Roomba for several weeks, I can easily see it happening. What I find harder to believe (and sorry, guys; I know this isn&#8217;t going to endear me to you) is that the husband who discovered the colossal mid-night mess cleaned it up himself instead of waking his wife to do it.\n<li>Faced with a wall? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearworld.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/17\/san_diego_tijuana_border_wall_bridge_111994.html\" target=\"_blank\">Build a bridge.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Okay, in the great debate over victim disarmament, this is trivial. But still: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/16\/opinion\/get-out-of-gun-control-apple.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Get out of gun control, Apple.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Uh oh. All those Loompanicsy books and articles about hiding stuff in your walls <a href=\"http:\/\/walabot.com\/diy\" target=\"_blank\">just got even more obsolete<\/a> than they already were. Nifty app for home remodelers, though. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>What a beautiful and unusual piece. Wendy McElroy talks about her experiences as a homeless teenager in <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/try-a-little-tenderness\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Try a Little Tenderness.&#8221;<\/a>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/midweek-links-28\/\">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":[3,6,8,12,13,19,20,26,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-practical-freedom","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431","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=26431"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26445,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431\/revisions\/26445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}