{"id":27203,"date":"2016-09-23T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27203"},"modified":"2016-09-23T05:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:54:51","slug":"friday-links-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/friday-links-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Pro gun&#8221; Donald Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/09\/23\/record-trump-wants-guns-taken-away-chicago-least\/90892100\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants your guns taken away<\/a> with no due process &#8212; at least if you live in Chicago.\n<li>Creepiest <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/23\/is-this-the-creepiest-use-of-facial-recognition-tech-yet\/\" target-\"_blank\">use of facial recognition technology<\/a> yet?\n<li>Remember those floating coffins in Louisiana? They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/23\/495034748\/keeping-the-dead-in-their-place\" target=\"_blank\">present most unusual problems<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of unusual problems &#8230; much has been said about the importance of swing states in the current electoral debacle. But here&#8217;s something new and unsurprising: swing-state v*ters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/23\/election_of_the_deplorables_swing_voters_loathe_both_candidates_131877.html\" target=\"_blank\">deplore both mainstream candidates<\/a>.\n<li>But wow. Just wow in a very bad way. After nearly eight years of experience with the man many within the professional commentariat somehow continue to believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfr.org\/patrick\/2016\/09\/20\/obamas-un-address-an-enlightened-man-in-an-unreasonable-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama is some kind of noble, elevated spirit<\/a> who is simply above the unaccountable troubles of the world. That article is typical of what&#8217;s floating around (like unidentified coffins) in the wash of Big O&#8217;s U.N. speech.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.generationopportunity.org\/articles\/2016\/08\/10\/ten-most-ridiculous-occupational-licensing-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 most ridiculous<\/a> professional licensing laws.\n<li>Which reflects handily on the theme of Timothy Sandefur&#8217;s just-published <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cMkUzK\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Permission Society:<\/a> How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It<\/em>. The book&#8217;s starting to get quite a bit of buzz (though so far few Amazon reviews).\n<li>So it took Yahoo two years to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2016\/09\/22\/yahoo_hack_in_2014_exposed_500_million_user_credentials_company_confirms.html\" target=\"_blank\">figure this out<\/a>?\n<li>Just in case you were worried that the universe might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/news-articles\/0916\/220916-directionless-universe\" target=\"_blank\">stretching in the wrong direction<\/a>.\n<li>When a wrong-number drama queen texts you, <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/971013\/funny-dating-fail-list-wrong-number-texts-cheating-accusation-and-turns-into-a-hilarious\" target=\"_blank\">respond with style<\/a>.\n<li>The Oatmeal: How to be <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/unhappy\" target=\"_blank\">perfectly unhappy<\/a>. (Actually a pretty damn good observation on life.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>&#8220;Pro gun&#8221; Donald Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/09\/23\/record-trump-wants-guns-taken-away-chicago-least\/90892100\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants your guns taken away<\/a> with no due process &#8212; at least if you live in Chicago.\n<li>Creepiest <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/23\/is-this-the-creepiest-use-of-facial-recognition-tech-yet\/\" target-\"_blank\">use of facial recognition technology<\/a> yet?\n<li>Remember those floating coffins in Louisiana? They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/23\/495034748\/keeping-the-dead-in-their-place\" target=\"_blank\">present most unusual problems<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/friday-links-67\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[4,6,11,12,16,19,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","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\/27203","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=27203"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27215,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203\/revisions\/27215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}