{"id":29728,"date":"2017-03-01T06:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29728"},"modified":"2017-03-01T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:00:30","slug":"midweek-links-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/midweek-links-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>That&#8217;s the (entrepreneurial) spirit. You may have heard that Seattle had a major freeway mess the other day, with all lanes of I-5 closed for eight hours. But that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/taco-truck-stuck-in-seattles-big-i-5-closure-opens-for-lunch-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t stop the operators<\/a> of one taco truck who were stuck in traffic along with everybody else.\n<li>Only four <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/blog\/four-agencies-abolish-along-dept-education\" target=\"_blank\">federal agencies to abolish<\/a>? Surely we can do better than that!\n<li>Anyone who has stood in a grocery check-out line behind people paying with SNAP\/EBT cards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/snap-15-billion-junk-food\" target=\"_blank\">will not be surprised<\/a>.\n<li>Nor will anyone who knows the sordid history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/02\/27\/atf-baltimore-anti-violence-employee-allegedly-tied-shootings-drug-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;anti-violence&#8221; workers<\/a>.\n<li>This is cool. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/DIY-Smart-Home-Doorbell-for-Less-Than-40\/\" target=\"_blank\">DIY doorbell cam<\/a> for less than $40. (H\/T MJ)\n<li>Cuss at a celebrity on Twitter, get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/02\/24\/twitter-locking-accounts-swearing-at-famous-people.html\" target=\"_blank\">locked out of your account<\/a>. While I&#8217;d like to see a return to higher standards of civility, I fail to see why cussing at a member of the elite is worse than cussing at anybody else.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/signs-someone-is-not-telling-the-truth-2017-2\" target=\"_blank\">Thirteen signs somebody is lying to you<\/a>. (I thought about posting this to the Cabal, where it would complement Kit Perez&#8217;s invaluable lessons on telling truth from lies via statement analysis, but her posts are about language alone; this article also covers body language.)\n<li>Oh man. Can you picture the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/28\/hawaii-homeless-housing-bill-healthcare-costs\" target=\"_blank\">unintended consequences of this<\/a>? Yeah, let&#8217;s everybody move to Hawaii and declare ourselves homeless! (H\/T MtK)\n<li>J.D. Tuccille pens an unconventional remembrance of <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2017\/02\/28\/how-my-father-jerome-tuccille-failed-his\" target=\"_blank\">his unconventional father<\/a> Jerome. With reflections on failing your way to success as a writer. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a>)<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>That&#8217;s the (entrepreneurial) spirit. You may have heard that Seattle had a major freeway mess the other day, with all lanes of I-5 closed for eight hours. But that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/taco-truck-stuck-in-seattles-big-i-5-closure-opens-for-lunch-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t stop the operators<\/a> of one taco truck who were stuck in traffic along with everybody else.\n<li>Only four <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/blog\/four-agencies-abolish-along-dept-education\" target=\"_blank\">federal agencies to abolish<\/a>? Surely we can do better than that!\n<li>Anyone who has stood in a grocery check-out line behind people paying with SNAP\/EBT cards <a \n\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/midweek-links-41\/\">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":[6,11,13,14,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-home-improvement","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728","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=29728"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29739,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728\/revisions\/29739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}