{"id":30213,"date":"2017-04-05T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30213"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:03:00","slug":"midweek-links-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/midweek-links-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This year is the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson leading the U.S. into World War I. Jim Bovard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/04\/04\/woodrow-wilson-democracy-world-war-james-bovard-column\/99959474\/\" target=\"_blank\">notes the long chain of disasters<\/a> that followed (and is following still). Did the war &#8220;make the world safe for democracy&#8221;?\n<li>What&#8217;s the best type of generator for you? Portable? Or stand-by type? The Family Handyman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyhandyman.com\/smart-homeowner\/choosing-the-best-power-generator\/view-all\" target=\"_blank\">discusses the difference<\/a> to help you choose. OTOH, you could always just <a href=\"https:\/\/theepicenter.com\/blog\/generator-lawn-mower-horizontal\/\" target=\"_blank\">convert your lawn mower<\/a> into a generator. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/how-to\/a10245\/pedal-power-how-to-build-a-bike-generator-16627209\/\" target=\"_blank\">Or your bike<\/a>. (H\/T MJ)\n<li>Taser &#8212; which is now changing its name to Axon &#8212; is offering <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/04\/taser-announces-free-body-cameras-cloud-storage-to-all-us-cops-for-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">free body cams<\/a> and a year of cloud storage to all U.S. cops.\n<li>It&#8217;s not so much the article, but the intro: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/editorial-trump-needs-a-real-vision-for-fighting-the-islamic-state-a-1141841.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Like Obama, only worse.&#8221;<\/a> About Trump&#8217;s ISIS fight.\n<li>Boreptch: <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/04\/samsung-smart-devices-it-may-be-worse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung is going to make all of its devices <del datetime=\"2017-04-06T00:18:30+00:00\">dumb<\/del> &#8220;smart&#8221;<\/a>. And if you think better security will solve the <del datetime=\"2017-04-06T00:18:30+00:00\">dumb<\/del> &#8220;smart&#8221; device problem <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/04\/the-internet-of-crummy-things.html\" target=\"_blank\">think again<\/a>\n<li>Fannie and Freddie&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/blog\/fannie-and-freddie%E2%80%99s-new-bubble\" target=\"_blank\">brand new bubble<\/a> (as if the bubbles in auto financing and student loans weren&#8217;t already enough).\n<li>Jeez, if my high school journalism classmates and I had written an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/05\/us\/high-school-journalists-principal-quits.html\" target=\"_blank\">expose of the school principal<\/a> when we were writing for the school newspaper, we&#8217;d have probably gotten suspended. The principal, not so much. Nice turnaround, kids.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>This year is the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson leading the U.S. into World War I. Jim Bovard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/04\/04\/woodrow-wilson-democracy-world-war-james-bovard-column\/99959474\/\" target=\"_blank\">notes the long chain of disasters<\/a> that followed (and is following still). Did the war &#8220;make the world safe for democracy&#8221;?\n<li>What&#8217;s the best type of generator for you? Portable? Or stand-by type? The Family Handyman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyhandyman.com\/smart-homeowner\/choosing-the-best-power-generator\/view-all\" target=\"_blank\">discusses the difference<\/a> to help you choose. OTOH, you could always just <a href=\"https:\/\/theepicenter.com\/blog\/generator-lawn-mower-horizontal\/\" target=\"_blank\">convert your lawn mower<\/a> into a generator. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/how-to\/a10245\/pedal-power-how-to-build-a-bike-generator-16627209\/\" target=\"_blank\">Or your bike<\/a>. (H\/T MJ)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/midweek-links-44\/\">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":[6,7,11,14,19,20,23,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-home-improvement","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213","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=30213"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30225,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213\/revisions\/30225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}