{"id":27123,"date":"2016-09-18T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27123"},"modified":"2016-09-18T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:13:16","slug":"weekend-links-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/weekend-links-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Local-government control: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/16\/local_govt_control_the_ignored_campaign_issue_131786.html\" target=\"_blank\">a campaign issue ignored<\/a> while the federal government grows and grows and grows. (And yes, you could take this to a local level beyond all government.) (H\/T PT)\n<li>Reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/09\/07\/in-reference-to-the-personalized-license-plate-kumquat\/\" target=\"_blank\">flap over the word &#8220;niggardly&#8221;<\/a> a few years back. Ignorami can&#8217;t even use a dictionary before embarrassing themselves.\n<li>A tiny pension plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/18\/business\/dealbook\/a-sour-surprise-for-public-pensions-two-sets-of-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">hints at bigger problems<\/a> in California&#8217;s government pension systems.\n<li>Kit Perez, whose views on resistance have been evolving, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickhenrysociety.com\/im-leaving-three-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\">leaving the III%<\/a>. Much more could and should be said about this. So many considerations and ramifications.\n<li>The weird story of how communion wine became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/local-church\/2016\/september\/how-methodists-accidentally-invented-your-kids-grape-juice-.html\" target=\"_blank\">communion grape juice<\/a>. Only in America.\n<li>Johannesburg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/libertarian-herman-mashaba-elected-mayor-of-johannesburg\/article31942363\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets a libertarian mayor<\/a>. We shall see how that works out in a world of corruption and coercion.\n<li>The writing style makes me wonder what Taleb was smoking when he <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nntaleb\/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.pbipdn1dg\" target=\"_blank\">wrote &#8220;Intellectual Yet Idiot.&#8221;<\/a> But his points are spot on, as they so often are.\n<li>So, you think you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/so-you-think-can-fake-your-own-death-elizabeth-greenwood\" target=\"_blank\">fake your own death<\/a>? (There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cHoXy9\" target=\"_blank\">a book<\/a> if you want to learn more about what &#8212; and what not &#8212; to do.)\n<li>Good news: pit bull-ish pup whose big smile went viral <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/viral-rescue-dog-diggy-scores-legal-victory-stay\/story?id=42144363\" target=\"_blank\">gets to stay home<\/a> after all, despite bigoted anti-breed ordinance\n<li>Twenty-eight cats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/elainawahl\/28-cats-who-have-found-the-best-spot\" target=\"_blank\">who&#8217;ve found the best spot<\/a> and aren&#8217;t about to give it up.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Local-government control: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/16\/local_govt_control_the_ignored_campaign_issue_131786.html\" target=\"_blank\">a campaign issue ignored<\/a> while the federal government grows and grows and grows. (And yes, you could take this to a local level beyond all government.) (H\/T PT)\n<li>Reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/09\/07\/in-reference-to-the-personalized-license-plate-kumquat\/\" target=\"_blank\">flap over the word &#8220;niggardly&#8221;<\/a> a few years back. Ignorami can&#8217;t even use a dictionary before embarrassing themselves.\n<li>A tiny pension plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/18\/business\/dealbook\/a-sour-surprise-for-public-pensions-two-sets-of-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">hints at bigger problems<\/a> in California&#8217;s government pension systems.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/weekend-links-45\/\">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":[8,11,18,19,20,28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27123","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=27123"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27141,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27123\/revisions\/27141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}