{"id":26504,"date":"2016-08-21T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26504"},"modified":"2016-08-21T17:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T00:53:45","slug":"the-usual-cheery-links-for-beginning-your-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/21\/the-usual-cheery-links-for-beginning-your-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The usual cheery links for beginning your week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Just in case anybody imagined problems in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21705317-americas-housing-system-was-centre-last-crisis-it-has-still-not-been-properly\" target=\"_blank\">housing market<\/a> got solved after 2008.\n<li>And in the Department of Uncommon Common Sense Department, Jim Bovard says, <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/20\/barrons-obamas-farm-fiasco\/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers ought to farm<\/a> (but of course politicians have a lot to say about that).\n<li>In Chicago, a tool cops said was supposed to help people is just ending up <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/151782\/chicago-s-experimental-policing-tool-is-hurting-the-people-it-s-supposed-to-be-helping\" target=\"_blank\">hassling the hapless<\/a>. (H\/T LA)\n<li>Anybody want to enter a new <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/casting-call-for-new-sipsey-and-iii-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Threepers t-shirt design contest<\/a>?\n<li>Why are these thousand-year-old dogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/08\/why-are-these-1000-year-old-dogs-buried-under-lima-zoo\" target=\"_blank\">buried under the Lima, Peru zoo<\/a>? Apparently to lead souls into the afterlife (and can you think of a guide to take you there?). But there&#8217;s mystery to it, too.\n<li>I hope <i>this dog<\/i> leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160818\/18363835281\/woman-sues-after-police-destroy-her-home-during-10-hour-standoff-with-family-dog.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">to a rather uncomfortable afterlife<\/a>. To say the least.\n<li>Hey! She says, frantically waving her hand in the air, I know the answer <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/why-large-screen-tvs-are-affordable-and-health-care-is-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">to this one<\/a>!\n<li>Yegads. Is this legal? Debt collector <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2016\/08\/16\/debt-collector-gets-out-of-lawsuit-by-buying-the-lawsuit-out-from-under-the-plaintiff\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets out being sued<\/a> by forcibly buying the lawsuit out from under the plaintiff.\n<li>But sometimes the little guy gets some justice, however rough. The Supremes have decreed that keeping poor people in jail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/justice-department-blasts-unconstitutional-fixed-bail-schedules-article-1.2759215\" target=\"_blank\">just because they can&#8217;t pay the bail<\/a> for minor crimes is unconstitutional.\n<li>The Robocall Strikeforce: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/national\/robocall-strike-force-brings-unwanted-calls-and-texts-to-justice_\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s on the job<\/a>. Or will be eventually, anyhow. Big Tech is doing something helpful for its customers. (For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nsa-hack-apple-fbi-2016-8\" target=\"_blank\">the second time this year<\/a>, actually.)\n<li>You may have heard that Elio &#8212; which has been promising for <i>years<\/i> to make a revolutionary three-wheeled <del datetime=\"2016-08-21T23:54:37+00:00\">car<\/del> autocycle, has finally reached the point of locking in the price for advance purchases. All along they&#8217;ve been saying $6,800 base price, which some of us thought they&#8217;d miss by thousands. But they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliomotors.com\/faqs-price-lock\/\" target=\"_blank\">come pretty close<\/a>. Still no word on when they&#8217;ll start delivering production vehicles. The lock-in has something to do with getting (sigh) government financing.\n<li>The day the dollar died: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/day-dollar-died\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part I<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/day-dollar-died-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part II<\/a>. Something for Silver to add to his topic fodder list. (H\/T JB)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Just in case anybody imagined problems in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21705317-americas-housing-system-was-centre-last-crisis-it-has-still-not-been-properly\" target=\"_blank\">housing market<\/a> got solved after 2008.\n<li>And in the Department of Uncommon Common Sense Department, Jim Bovard says, <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/20\/barrons-obamas-farm-fiasco\/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers ought to farm<\/a> (but of course politicians have a lot to say about that).\n<li>In Chicago, a tool cops said was supposed to help people is just ending up <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/151782\/chicago-s-experimental-policing-tool-is-hurting-the-people-it-s-supposed-to-be-helping\" target=\"_blank\">hassling the hapless<\/a>. 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