{"id":26979,"date":"2016-09-10T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=26979"},"modified":"2016-09-10T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:37:21","slug":"weekend-links-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/weekend-links-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Twenty-nine <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/ryan-holiday\/2016\/08\/29-lessons-from-the-greatest-strategic-minds-who-ever-lived-fought-or-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\">strategic lessons<\/a> from people who&#8217;ve been there. Business-oriented. But some good lifehacking material, too. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Shel.)\n<li>Alan Gura examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2016\/09\/the-court-after-scalia-the-next-conservative-justice-may-not-save-the-second-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">the court after Scalia<\/a> &#8212; and explains why the next &#8220;conservative&#8221; justice may not help save the Second Amendment.\n<li>John Hinckley is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/president-reagans-would-be-assassin-is-set-to-be-released-saturday\/2016\/09\/09\/e1ad0e9e-75ca-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">free to walk among us<\/a> &#8212; as long as we live in the gated community where his mommy resides. I&#8217;m no shrink, but Hinckley always came across to me more as a spoiled rich boy throwing a tantrum than an authentic crazy person.\n<li>In case you&#8217;ve been waiting for <em>your<\/em> cultural, national, or ethnic group to get its reparations, you&#8217;ll have to <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@michaelzwilliamson\/you-know-what-this-happened-to-everyone-da3847a026a2\" target=\"_blank\">get in line<\/a> behind Michael Z. Williamson.\n<li>Okay, Mr. Williamson, you&#8217;re hilarious. But sheesh, you didn&#8217;t even mention <em>my<\/em> ethnic group, whose history of genocides, attempted genocides, suppression, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/12\/27\/1265498\/-The-slaves-that-time-forgot\" target=\"_blank\">slavery<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pridecomethbeforeafall.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/29\/the-irish-slave-trade-white-cargo\/\" target=\"_blank\">more slavery<\/a>, and general abuse (not the mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crf-usa.org\/bill-of-rights-in-action\/bria-26-2-the-potato-famine-and-irish-immigration-to-america.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;coffin ships&#8221;<\/a> we traveled in even when we &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; escaped our British overlords) could give you serious nightmares. I get my damned reparations first!\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/news\/cover-story\/article\/20832859\/how-an-endtimes-cult-that-believes-cats-are-divine-beings-ended-up-in-tennessee\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Apocalypse Meow&#8221;<\/a>: doomsday cult doubles as cat rescue. Oddly enough, that&#8217;s not the first time something like this has happened. The famous Best Friends sanctuary in Utah, probably the largest and best-reputed animal sanctuary in the country, is run by family members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Best_Friends_Animal_Society\" target=\"_blank\">religious cult<\/a> that founded it. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/best-friends-of-utah-the-process-church-of-the-final-judgment-to-animal-society\" target=\"_blank\">More on Best Friends<\/a>.)\n<li>Bonus dog news. What does your dog see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-what-dogs-see-when-they-watch-television-2016-9\" target=\"_blank\">when he watches TV<\/a>?\n<li>Bonus bonus dog news. Poor, rescued pup loses 35 pounds &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/beauty\/rescued-dog-loses-35-pounds-160651285.html\" target=\"_blank\">in hair alone<\/a>! (H\/T JB)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And bonus bonus bonus dog stuff. Boy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mk4bmK-acEM\" target=\"_blank\">Mishka really does sing<\/a> better than a lot of humans. (H\/T Shel)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Mk4bmK-acEM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Twenty-nine <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/ryan-holiday\/2016\/08\/29-lessons-from-the-greatest-strategic-minds-who-ever-lived-fought-or-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\">strategic lessons<\/a> from people who&#8217;ve been there. Business-oriented. But some good lifehacking material there, too. (Tip O&#8217; hat to Shel.)\n<li>Alan Gura examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2016\/09\/the-court-after-scalia-the-next-conservative-justice-may-not-save-the-second-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">the court after Scalia<\/a> &#8212; and explains why the next &#8220;conservative&#8221; justice may not help save the Second Amendment.\n<li>John Hinckley is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/president-reagans-would-be-assassin-is-set-to-be-released-saturday\/2016\/09\/09\/e1ad0e9e-75ca-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">free to walk among us<\/a> &#8212; as long as we live in the gated community where his mommy resides. I&#8217;m no shrink, but Hinckley always came across to me more as a spoiled rich boy throwing a tantrum than an authentic crazy person.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/weekend-links-44\/\">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":[8,12,13,16,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979","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=26979"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26996,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979\/revisions\/26996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}