{"id":27751,"date":"2016-10-24T07:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27751"},"modified":"2016-10-24T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:49:37","slug":"monday-links-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/monday-links-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There should be a special hell &#8212; a very special hell &#8212; for so-called private companies that thrive by <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/10\/23\/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments\/\" target=\"_blank\">enabling mass, unlawful government surveillance<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>I&#8217;ve complained of authoritarian bigotry from some of the most ardent Trumpists. But ain&#8217;t nothing compares with <a href=\"https:\/\/i.sli.mg\/Qr6XIB.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this from some San Francisco Clintonista<\/a>, who wants Trump supporters to die and their houses to burn down. Unless this is particularly wicked satire, it&#8217;s additional evidence that the authoritarian left is more violent than the right in the U.S. will ever be.\n<li>Though I don&#8217;t, can&#8217;t, and won&#8217;t ever support Trump, I understand <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2016\/10\/23\/why-i-now-feel-compelled-to-vote-for-trump-n2235899\" target=\"_blank\">those who find themselves increasingly pushed<\/a> in his direction.\n<li>The Chertoff Group &#8212; those nice folks who brought you Rape-o-Scan machines for your airport &#8220;security&#8221; &#8212; issue a white paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/chertoffgroup.com\/files\/docs\/StoppingTheInsiderThreatWhitepaperChertoffGroupSailPointFINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">how to stop insider threats<\/a>. It&#8217;s instructive, dull as ditchwater, but mercifully brief. Most interesting is their failure (in the first paragraph under &#8220;Threat Overview&#8221;) to understand the motivations of their most storied &#8220;threats.&#8221; (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR)\n<li>Yikes. If this didn&#8217;t come from such an authoritative source and wasn&#8217;t so well researched, I&#8217;d dismiss it as a conspiracy theory. David T. Hardy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/hillary_clinton_and_the_chain_of_command_at_waco.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton and the murderous chain of command<\/a> at Waco.\n<li>At TZP, Y.B. ben Avraham writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=3870\" target=\"_blank\">the U.N., Trump, freedom, and <em>hasbara<\/em><\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;Optimism&#8221; and &#8220;pessimism&#8221; are shorthand descriptions, typical binary thinking. What&#8217;s needed instead of either, said Erich Fromm, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/04\/04\/erich-fromm-anatomy-of-human-destructiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\">rational faith in human nature<\/a>. (This site, Brain Pickings, appears to be a treasure trove of great thought. Thanks to feralfae for the find.)\n<li>In the good reads department, Bill St. Clair has compiled, in easy-access form <a href=\"https:\/\/etwof.com\/absolved_2.html\" target=\"_blank\">all available chapters<\/a> of Mike Vanderboegh&#8217;s unfinished novel of fourth-generation warfare, <em>Absolved<\/em>.\n<li>The Pirate Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/iceland-a-land-of-vikings-braces-for-a-pirate-party-takeover\/2016\/10\/23\/f1bfe992-9540-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">might end up taking over Iceland<\/a>. Money quote: &#8220;Outsiders may regard the idea of a government run by Pirates as a joke. But &#8216;the voters think a joke is better than what we have now &#8230;'&#8221;\n<li>Yes, it is a <a href=\"http:\/\/assets.perfectlytimedphotos.com\/hashed_silo_content\/87a\/6ce\/19b\/resized\/foo.jpg\"_blank\">dog eat dog<\/a> world out there. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>There should be a special hell &#8212; a very special hell &#8212; for so-called private companies that thrive by <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/10\/23\/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments\/\" target=\"_blank\">enabling mass, unlawful government surveillance<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>I&#8217;ve complained of authoritarian bigotry from some of the most ardent Trumpists. But ain&#8217;t nothing compares with <a href=\"https:\/\/i.sli.mg\/Qr6XIB.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this from some San Francisco Clintonista<\/a>, who wants Trump supporters to die and their houses to burn down. Unless this is particularly wicked satire, it&#8217;s additional evidence that the authoritarian left is more violent than the right in the U.S. will ever be.\n<li>Though I don&#8217;t, can&#8217;t, and won&#8217;t ever support Trump, I understand <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2016\/10\/23\/why-i-now-feel-compelled-to-vote-for-trump-n2235899\" target=\"_blank\">those who find themselves increasingly pushed<\/a> in his direction.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/monday-links-81\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[4,8,12,18,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/27751","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=27751"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27769,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27751\/revisions\/27769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}