{"id":29328,"date":"2017-01-28T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29328"},"modified":"2017-01-28T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:39:53","slug":"weekend-links-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/28\/weekend-links-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>NASA, which can&#8217;t get humans to Mars and has been so useless on lunar travel that the last U.S. astronaut to walk on the Moon recently died of old age &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2723095\/nasa-fears-cosmic-rays-from-outer-space-will-damage-plane-passengers-brains\/\" target=\"_blank\">is now fretting<\/a> that we might get dementia from flying too high in airplanes. Lord, save us from such cowards, fools, and earth-crawling bureaucrats! (H\/T MtK)\n<li>But that&#8217;s okay. Because Hillary Clinton will fix all the problems of humanity when she becomes president in 2020, propelled by her <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/26\/report-hillary-clinton-wants-to-launch-a-television-talk-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">hit TV show<\/a>. (This according to one anonymous source; so don&#8217;t start &#8220;rejoicing&#8221; yet.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to SC)\n<li>This guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dji-phantom-4-drone-review-i-lost-it-in-hawaii-2017-1\" target=\"_blank\">lost a $1,200 drone<\/a> during a performance review. The reason, in part? Yet another pampered, privileged, and precious ex-president.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/john-hurt-actor-dead-died-appreciation-mercurial-playing-downtrodden-and-imperious-a7550986.html\" target=\"_blank\">RIP, John Hurt<\/a>. Not a surprise because he was afflicted with pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly. But yet another loss. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/filmblog\/2017\/jan\/28\/john-hurt-10-key-performances-alien-elephant-man-doctor-who\" target=\"_blank\">recap of 10 of his notable performances<\/a>, from the Elephant Man to Garrick Ollivander of the Harry Potter movies, leaves out his creepy-mad role as Chancellor Sutler in <em>V for Vendetta<\/em>. But then, in a 50-year career, they had to leave out a lot.\n<li>Just a reminder that our old friend Elias Alias of The Mental Militia, is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/thementalmilitia.net\/2016\/12\/23\/jewelry-before-the-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">gifted artist who specializes in jewelry<\/a>. Elias recently left his editor&#8217;s post at Oath Keepers. This gave him spare time to return to crafting gold and gems, but left him at risk of hunger in the meantime. If you&#8217;re in the bracket to purchase custom jewelry, please remember Elias.\n<li>When I linked earlier this month to an article about a suburban Detroit man getting a ticket for warming up his car in his own driveway, I had no idea. Turns out that was merely <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/how-the-law-could-punish-you-for-trying-to-stay-warm\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tip of a nationwide iceberg<\/a>.\n<li>No, I would not take my survival advice from <em>Cracked<\/em>. Still, here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_24511_5-stupidly-simple-survival-hacks-that-might-save-your-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">off-the-wall tips<\/a> to evaluate at your own risk.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>NASA, which can&#8217;t get humans to Mars and has been so useless on Lunar travel that the last U.S. astronaut to walk on the Moon recently died of old age &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2723095\/nasa-fears-cosmic-rays-from-outer-space-will-damage-plane-passengers-brains\/\" target=\"_blank\">is now fretting<\/a> that we might get dementia from flying too high in airplanes. Lord, save us from such cowards, fools, and earth-hugging bureaucrats! (H\/T MtK)\n<li>But that&#8217;s okay. Because Hillary Clinton will fix all the problems of humanity when she becomes president in 2020, propelled by her <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/26\/report-hillary-clinton-wants-to-launch-a-television-talk-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">hit TV show<\/a>. (This according to one anonymous source; so don&#8217;t start &#8220;rejoicing&#8221; yet.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to SC)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/28\/weekend-links-59\/\">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":[2,4,7,11,19,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29328","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=29328"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29341,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29328\/revisions\/29341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}