{"id":28540,"date":"2016-12-07T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28540"},"modified":"2016-12-07T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:15:35","slug":"midweek-links-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/midweek-links-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>New York City isn&#8217;t the only place for those closet-sized apartments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/real-estate\/seattles-newest-apartments-prison-cell-with-no-door-for-toilet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle weighs in<\/a> with a real doozy.\n<li>Am I the only one who finds it both shocking and ominous that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/12\/06\/can-algos-trade-trumps-tweets-absolutely-maybe.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 seconds is now a long reaction time<\/a> in stock markets?\n<li>Iowa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2016\/12\/05\/iowa-board-60000-settlement-civil-forfeiture-case-california-gamblers\/95002732\/\" target=\"_blank\">disbands its team of badge-wearing highwaymen<\/a> and makes a second payment to a pair of cash-carrying gamblers they stopped and pillaged.\n<li>Clintons: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/12\/06\/hillary-clinton-campaign-stupid-stuff-steven-strauss\/94990920\/\" target=\"_blank\">keep your money but stay out of politics<\/a>. You&#8217;ve done enough harm. (Actually, with the collapse of donations and speaking fees, coupled with years of legal expenses ahead, I don&#8217;t think America&#8217;s First Criminal Family will even be able to keep the money.)\n<li>Yes, those SJWs &#8220;know&#8221; they&#8217;re right &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/fredrikdeboer.com\/2016\/12\/06\/condescending-certain-and-incoherent\/\" target=\"_blank\">until you try to pin them down<\/a> on the principles behind their positions.\n<li>I don&#8217;t care who you are or what you&#8217;ve done. Nobody should go to jail just for being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2016\/12\/07\/unable-pay-traffic-tickets-single-mom-jailed-weeks\/95084362\/\" target=\"_blank\">too poor to pay traffic fines<\/a>. Debtors&#8217; prison was supposed to have been abolished back in some dark century.\n<li>Cold as a witch&#8217;s tit around here right now. Seattle may get up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/weather\/2-4-inches-of-snow-could-fall-thursday-in-seattle-area-weather-service-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">four inches of snow tomorrow<\/a>. Seattle has hills. Lots of hills. Expect them to look <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ySIMQGyMXRM\" target=\"_blank\">like this<\/a> if that prediction comes true. (H\/T MJR)\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Amazon&#8217;s theme for today: Four brawling nerds. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>That means the emphasis is on tech, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gW9ooH\" target=\"_blank\">GoPro Camera HERO+<\/a>, automated <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2h4kO7h\" target=\"_blank\">iFetch machines<\/a> (didn&#8217;t know your dog could be a nerd, did you?), <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hhTsxK\" target=\"_blank\">Lumo activity trackers<\/a>, kids&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gDx1PH\" target=\"_blank\">ride-on toys<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gcekl7\" target=\"_blank\">Bissell 1132A Symphony Vacuum and Steam Mop<\/a> &#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gcjBch\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>New York City isn&#8217;t the only place for those closet-sized apartments. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/real-estate\/seattles-newest-apartments-prison-cell-with-no-door-for-toilet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle weighs in<\/a> with a real doozy.\n<li>Am I the only one who finds it both shocking and ominous that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/12\/06\/can-algos-trade-trumps-tweets-absolutely-maybe.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 seconds is now a long reaction time<\/a> in stock markets?\n<li>Iowa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2016\/12\/05\/iowa-board-60000-settlement-civil-forfeiture-case-california-gamblers\/95002732\/\" target=\"_blank\">disbands its team of badge-wearing highwaymen<\/a> and makes a second payment to a pair of cash-carrying gamblers they stopped and pillaged.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/midweek-links-36\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[7,11,16,19,20,23,25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28540","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=28540"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28555,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28540\/revisions\/28555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}