{"id":28661,"date":"2016-12-14T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28661"},"modified":"2016-12-14T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:31:47","slug":"midweek-links-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/midweek-links-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Turns out that, as pot has been legalized, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/marijuana-usage-among-teens-falls-2016-12\" target=\"_blank\">teens have had a harder time<\/a> getting the stuff. Sure, that&#8217;s against all predictions &#8212; except predictions by people who grok how markets work.\n<li>Teen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/12\/13\/todays-teens-are-way-better-behaved-than-you-were\/\" target=\"_blank\">drug and alcohol use<\/a> has fallen in general. Of course, that&#8217;s according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, so it may be fake news.\n<li>It takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/cop-fired-seven-shots-unarmed-elderly-man-dementia-n695691\" target=\"_blank\">seven shots to kill<\/a> a 73-year-old man suffering dementia. But then, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4599335\/man-dementia-fatally-shot-police-crucifix\/\" target=\"_blank\">armed with a deadly crucifix<\/a>, so I guess they had to do it.\n<li>The one big &#8220;success&#8221; Dems keep pointing to for Obamacare is the supposed &#8220;20 million&#8221; newly insured. Never mind that most of those only got crammed onto overstressed Medicaid programs. The Heritage Foundation looked at the actual figures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/did-obamacare-add-20-million-to-the-insurance-rolls-not-even-close\/\" target=\"_blank\">and says the real number isn&#8217;t even close<\/a> to the claim.\n<li><em>The Cabinet<\/em>. It sounds like the title of a horror movie, doesn&#8217;t it? Lord knows that&#8217;s how the media sees it as Trump makes his choices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=4359\" target=\"_blank\">Vin Suprynowicz laughs<\/a>.\n<li>You already know this, but it&#8217;s good to get a reminder. In the first of his &#8220;Camel in the tent&#8221; series, Nathan Barton details how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepriceofliberty.org\/?p=10259\" target=\"_blank\">drivers licenses steal freedom<\/a> and always have.\n<li>Write a really dumb headline about a movie and <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1249029\/star-wars-rogue-one-memes-worst-title-for-a-star-wars-review-possible-let-twitter-to-voxthemovies\" target=\"_blank\">the Internet will come after you<\/a>. Hilariously.\n<li>Next time you&#8217;re in Bangkok, <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.asiaone.com\/travel\/destinations\/have-howling-good-time-bangkok-husky-cafe\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a place to go<\/a>. Well, if you need a pup fix. (H\/T MJR)\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s deals on Amazon fall under a category you know I could not pass up: 11 Puppies Playing. Among the daily deals: a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2huHBfL\" target=\"_blank\">PetCube video camera and laser toy<\/a> that enables you to see, talk to, and play with you pet when you&#8217;re not home; a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hOUX2U\" target=\"_blank\">doggie DNA test<\/a>; and a YUGE <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hOSKUV\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Brooks DVD collection<\/a> for under $20. What does a boxed set of Mel Brooks movies have to do with puppies? I don&#8217;t know. There are lots of other <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hxBFzV\" target=\"_blank\">non-pet daily deals<\/a>, too. Lots of clothing, shoes, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Turns out that, as pot has been legalized, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/marijuana-usage-among-teens-falls-2016-12\" target=\"_blank\">teens have had a harder time<\/a> getting the stuff. Sure, that&#8217;s against all predictions &#8212; except predictions by people who grok how markets work.\n<li>Teen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/12\/13\/todays-teens-are-way-better-behaved-than-you-were\/\" target=\"_blank\">drug and alcohol use<\/a> has fallen in general. Of course, that&#8217;s according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, so it may be fake news.\n<li>It takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/cop-fired-seven-shots-unarmed-elderly-man-dementia-n695691\" target=\"_blank\">seven shots to kill<\/a> a 73-year-old man suffering dementia. But then, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4599335\/man-dementia-fatally-shot-police-crucifix\/\" target=\"_blank\">armed with a deadly crucifix<\/a>, so I guess they had to do it.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/14\/midweek-links-37\/\">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":[4,5,8,13,19,23,25,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","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\/28661","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=28661"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28671,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions\/28671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}