{"id":27346,"date":"2016-10-01T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27346"},"modified":"2016-09-30T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T01:48:14","slug":"weekend-links-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/weekend-links-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>University of Michigan offers students the opportunity to designate their &#8220;personal pronoun&#8221; of choice to avoid giving offense to the whatever-gendered. One student selects <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/so-brave-this-university-of-michigan-kid\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Your Majesty.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Not only does another major newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/ct-gary-johnson-president-endorsement-edit-1002-20160930-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">endorse Gary Johnson<\/a>, but the editorial is pretty awesome.\n<li>OTOH, A.B. Stoddard thinks Johnson is such a stumblebum &#8212; and yet such a threat in a four-way race &#8212; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/30\/why_clinton_must_woo_weld_131941.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary should offer William Weld<\/a> a cabinet position in hopes of luring would-be LP voters to her campaign. (Yup, this whole election cycle is even sicker and weirder than we thought.)\n<li>Yet another corrupt, better-than-thou &#8220;progressive&#8221; (who also happens to be named Clinton), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/09\/30\/chelsea-clinton-takes-private-jet-to-clean-energy-roundtable.html\" target=\"_blank\">flies in a private jet<\/a> to a clean-energy gathering.\n<li>In foreign affairs, the U.S. (government) is your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2016\/09\/29\/the-your-know-all-friend-who-should-just-keep-his-mouth-shut\/xK79jVNj4huM6eSDmJBi5I\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">know-it-all friend<\/a>.\n<li>Whut? Why the hell would an atheist want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/09\/29\/can-an-atheist-lead-a-protestant-church-a-battle-over-religion-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">lead a Protestant church<\/a>? Just for the sake of power? Headlines? Why on earth?\n<li>Progress, Muslims, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-skeptics\/what-if-muslim-immigrants-dont-want-be-us-17824\" target=\"_blank\">Whig view of history<\/a>.\n<li>Dogs. They&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/231773\/dogs-will-ignore-your-lousy-suggestions.html\" target=\"_blank\">ignore your lousy suggestions<\/a> and get right to the essentials. Unlike humans, who are more suggestible.\n<li>Seventeen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kaelintully\/what-is-happening-to-the-world?\" target=\"_blank\">water-loving cats<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>University of Michigan offers students the opportunity to designate their &#8220;personal pronoun&#8221; of choice to avoid giving offense to the whatever-gendered. One student selects <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/so-brave-this-university-of-michigan-kid\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Your Majesty.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Not only does another major newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/ct-gary-johnson-president-endorsement-edit-1002-20160930-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">endorse Gary Johnson<\/a>, but the editorial is pretty awesome.\n<li>OTOH, A.B. Stoddard thinks Johnson is such a stumblebum &#8212; and yet such a threat in a four-way race &#8212; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/30\/why_clinton_must_woo_weld_131941.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary should offer William Weld<\/a> a cabinet position in hopes of luring would-be LP voters to her campaign. (Yup, this whole election cycle is even sicker than we thought.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/weekend-links-46\/\">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":[7,8,11,19,25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346","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=27346"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27360,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346\/revisions\/27360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}