{"id":28693,"date":"2016-12-18T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28693"},"modified":"2016-12-18T08:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T15:51:01","slug":"weekend-links-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/18\/weekend-links-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-other.html\" target=\"_blank\">One of these things is not like the other<\/a>. A meditation on Sesame Street, shotguns, and the irrationality of the NFA courtesy of L.S. and David Codrea.\n<li>Seventeen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/signs-you-are-smart-even-if-it-does-not-feel-like-it-2016-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">signs you&#8217;re intelligent<\/a> &#8212; even if it doesn&#8217;t feel like it. Hm. Twelve of the 17 fit me. Does that mean I&#8217;m only slightly above dimwitted?\n<li>So much change. A delegation from the stodgy old American Legion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/12\/powerful-veterans-group-pushes-trump-on-marijuana-rescheduling\/\" target=\"_blank\">has met with Trump<\/a> in the cause of getting cannabis re-scheduled.\n<li>Glorious it would be if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2016\/12\/joseph-mercola\/magic-mushrooms-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">psychedelics, aka entheogens, were next<\/a>. (H\/T S.)\n<li>Five major reasons (beyond the obviously obvious) why F*c*b**k&#8217;s plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/12\/16\/5-major-problems-facebooks-attempt-limit-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">limit fake news<\/a> is a really, truly bad thing.\n<li>Just to be clear on the <a href=\"http:\/\/smallestminority.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/i-was-only-off-by-twelve-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">impact of that (maybe) Russian hacking<\/a>.\n<li>Has anybody here ever tried a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/floatation-therapy-sensory-deprivation-meditation-hallucinations-floatworks-london-2016-12\/#all-in-all-i-think-prefer-my-hobbies-to-be-a-bit-more-active-but-it-was-a-deeply-strange-experience-and-im-very-glad-i-tried-it-13\" target=\"_blank\">sensory-deprivation tank<\/a>? I&#8217;ve always wanted to (though I think it would be scary). All the opportunities are in Civilization, though. I don&#8217;t go there.\n<li>Finally, to challenge perceptions about life, here are some simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caroldeppe.com\/Taoist%20Stories.html\" target=\"_blank\">Taoist stories<\/a>. (In another context entirely, Ellendra mentioned the author who produced these adaptations. I followed her name to these.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-other.html\" target=\"_blank\">One of these things is not like the other<\/a>. A meditation on Sesame Street, shotguns, and the irrationality of the NFA courtesy of L.S. and David Codrea.\n<li>Seventeen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/signs-you-are-smart-even-if-it-does-not-feel-like-it-2016-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">signs you&#8217;re intelligent<\/a> &#8212; even if it doesn&#8217;t feel like it. Hm. Twelve of the 17 fit me. Does that mean I&#8217;m only slightly above dimwitted?\n<li>So much change. A delegation from the stodgy old American Legion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2016\/12\/powerful-veterans-group-pushes-trump-on-marijuana-rescheduling\/\" target=\"_blank\">has met with Trump<\/a> in the cause of getting cannabis re-scheduled.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/18\/weekend-links-55\/\">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":[2,5,9,12,13,18,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cannabis-legalization","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28693","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=28693"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28702,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28693\/revisions\/28702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}