{"id":28721,"date":"2016-12-20T01:42:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28721"},"modified":"2016-12-19T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:24:04","slug":"tuesday-links-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/tuesday-links-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sigh of relief. That damned election is finally, finally <em>over<\/em>. And of course Trump won. Despite death threats to electors. Despite Russians hiding under every bed. Despite the media being the media. Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/four-washington-electors-break-ranks-and-dont-vote-for-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">four out of 12<\/a> Washington state electors going rogue. And despite one valiant Texan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/nation-politics\/electoral-college-meets-amid-effort-to-deny-trump-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\">casting an electoral college v*te for Ron Paul<\/a>. Can we talk about something else now?\n<li>If you&#8217;re old and don&#8217;t want to die before your time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/12\/19\/506144346\/patients-cared-for-by-female-doctors-fare-better-than-those-treated-by-men\" target=\"_blank\">get a female doctor<\/a>, sez some new and highly sexist research. (Do you think NPR would be running this story if the research concluded that male doctors were superior?)\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2116536-molten-iron-river-discovered-speeding-beneath-russia-and-canada\" target=\"_blank\">Molten iron river<\/a> is picking up speed under Canada and Russia. Doesn&#8217;t this just beg for a bad SF movie? Where&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iann.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irwin Allen<\/a> when you need him?\n<li>Yes, this is why <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/18\/us-marshal-arrested-for-pointing-gun-at-mcdonalds-cashier\/\" target=\"_blank\">only cops should be armed<\/a>. The better to terrorize the rest of us. And sigh, <em>some<\/em> of the rest of us will always reliably make excuses for the worst of them.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/12\/19\/clinton-advisers-point-fingers-at-huma-abedin-inner-circle-for-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blame Huma<\/a>. Or better yet, that entire tiny, insular Hillarian circle.\n<li>So. You&#8217;ve tried Atkins. And South Beach. And paleo. And keto. And the grapefruit diet. The raw food diet. The blood-type diet. The werewolf diet (yes, it&#8217;s actually a thing). The master cleanse diet. And every other known diet. You&#8217;ve done everything but swallow a tapeworm (also a thing, gods forbid). But have you ever tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/atlas_obscura\/2016\/12\/19\/the_regimen_sanitatus_salernum_was_the_middle_ages_most_famous_health_manual.html\" target=\"_blank\">eating according to the medieval <em>Regimen Sanitatus Salernum<\/em><\/a>? No, didn&#8217;t think so.\n<li>I really wanted to cheer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/12\/fck-injustice-4-0-gpa-student-quits-kansas-state-after-first-semester-over-college-debt-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">this straight-A student<\/a> who&#8217;s quitting college over the student-loan scam and the poor value of higher education. Except that he&#8217;s obviously a perfect example of said poor quality.\n<li>At last! The list all you last-minute shoppers have been waiting for: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/dave-barry\/article118002173.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Barry&#8217;s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide<\/a>. All available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">on Amazon<\/a>, of course. (Tip o&#8217; hat to jed)\n<li>Religion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePalamite\/status\/777609216928444417\" target=\"_blank\">is not dead<\/a> on campus. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Sigh of relief. That damned election is finally, finally <em>over<\/em>. And of course Trump won. Despite death threats to electors. Despite Russians hiding under every bed. Despite the media being the media. Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/four-washington-electors-break-ranks-and-dont-vote-for-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">four out of 12<\/a> Washington state electors going rogue. And despite one valiant Texan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/nation-politics\/electoral-college-meets-amid-effort-to-deny-trump-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\">casting an electoral college v*te for Ron Paul<\/a>. Can we talk about something else now?\n<li>If you&#8217;e old and don&#8217;t want to die before your time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/12\/19\/506144346\/patients-cared-for-by-female-doctors-fare-better-than-those-treated-by-men\" target=\"_blank\">get a female doctor<\/a>, sez some new and highly sexist research. (Do you think NPR would be running this story if the research concluded that male doctors were superior?)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/tuesday-links-82\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[11,12,13,16,19,23,25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/28721","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=28721"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28740,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions\/28740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}