{"id":27191,"date":"2016-09-22T05:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27191"},"modified":"2016-09-22T05:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:09:11","slug":"thursday-links-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/thursday-links-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Nine smartphone apps to <a href=\"http:\/\/extramile.thehartford.com\/category-feature\/9-emergency-preparation-protection-apps\" target=\"_blank\">help with emergencies<\/a>.\n<li>I post this solely to commemorate the day when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3798213\/PIERS-MORGAN-doesn-t-matter-names-mainstream-media-call-Trump-says-exactly-Americans-think-especially-comes-Islamic-terror.html\" target=\"_blank\">Piers Morgan actually said something that made sense<\/a>.\n<li>And while we&#8217;re on that track, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/police-in-schools_us_57e01ac5e4b0071a6e0897b2\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> may be the first time the SPLC has done something other than raise money by lying. Of course, they are just one of 100 groups signing on to what is a blessedly good idea: getting cops out of schools.\n<li>While news from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/mobile\/235594-yes-google-play-is-tracking-you-and-thats-just-the-tip-of-a-very-large-iceberg\" target=\"_blank\">kingdoms<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/free-isnt-freedom-epstein-essay\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> and F*c*b**k remains bad, the Opera browser, bless its heart, brings good news in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/opera-launches-desktop-version-of-its-free-unlimited-vpn\/\" target=\"_blank\">an easy VPN<\/a>. (H\/Ts due here!)\n<li>How bad off is Venezuela? One of the most oil-rich nations on the planet has been reduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/21\/world\/americas\/venezuela-oil-economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">buying oil from the U.S.<\/a>\n<li>Um &#8230; well, yeah. That&#8217;s one way to <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/egan-170k-in-mint-gold-allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears\" target=\"_blank\">hide gold<\/a>.\n<li>The Alaska R-party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernjournalism.com\/alaska-gop-officials-resign-rather-than-back-liberal-murkowski-over-libertarian-joe-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\">forces out officials<\/a> because they want to support an actual Republican (running on the LP ticket) rather than the Democrat (running on the R-party ticket &#8212; are you following this?) the party wants to stick them with. Interesting times.\n<li>Multiple-choice questions are a silly way to gage real-world knowledge. I&#8217;m not sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rebecca-kantar-wants-to-reinvent-the-sat-2016-9\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> would be an improvement, but it&#8217;s a start.\n<li>To have and to hold &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/h2\/vflt\/laurenstrapagiel\/to-have-and-to-hold-puppies\" target=\"_blank\">puppies<\/a>!\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Nine smartphone apps to <a href=\"http:\/\/extramile.thehartford.com\/category-feature\/9-emergency-preparation-protection-apps\" target=\"_blank\">help with emergencies<\/a>.\n<li>I post this solely to commemorate the day when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3798213\/PIERS-MORGAN-doesn-t-matter-names-mainstream-media-call-Trump-says-exactly-Americans-think-especially-comes-Islamic-terror.html\" target=\"_blank\">Piers Morgan actually said something that made sense<\/a>.\n<li>And while we&#8217;re on that track, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/police-in-schools_us_57e01ac5e4b0071a6e0897b2\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> may be the first time the SPLC has done something other than raise money by lying. Of course, they are just one of 100 groups signing on to what is a blessedly good idea: getting cops out of schools.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/thursday-links-56\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[6,8,19,20,23,25,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27191","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=27191"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27202,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27191\/revisions\/27202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}