{"id":30343,"date":"2017-04-12T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30343"},"modified":"2017-04-12T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:36:57","slug":"midweek-links-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/12\/midweek-links-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. After the high-falutin&#8217; posts of the past two days, it&#8217;s time for a return to the mundane.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less intrusive, less privacy-invading online ads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/stronger-privacy-laws-save-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\">would be better for advertisers<\/a> as well as we poor, abused potential customers.\n<li>Well, now let&#8217;s not be too hard on the poor HUD. I&#8217;m sure many of us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/15163\/ben-carson-finds-500-billion-billion-errors-during-joseph-curl#\" target=\"_blank\">make $500 billion bookkeeping errors<\/a> every week.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/04\/12\/dumb-muscle\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dumb Muscle.&#8221;<\/a> Scott Greenfield comments on this week&#8217;s United Airlines disaster. (My &#8220;favorite&#8221; part of the whole ugly story is how United CEO Oscar Munoz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/apr\/11\/united-airlines-boss-oliver-munoz-says-passenger-belligerent\" target=\"_blank\">justified the whole brutal business<\/a> by saying that, after all, United <em>politely<\/em> asked the paying customer to depart &#8212; just before bringing in hired thugs to beat him up for responding with an equally polite but firm &#8212; aka &#8220;diruptive and belligerent&#8221; &#8212; NO.)\n<li>One more article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/04\/10\/the-us-college-debt-bubble-is-becoming-dangerous.html\" target=\"_blank\">dangerously inflating student debt bubble<\/a>. Yes, we know. But this piece contains good background and stats.\n<li>Parents are becoming more protective of kids. Overprotective? Or justified. Is the world <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2017\/04\/10\/is-the-world-more-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\">actually a more dangerous place<\/a> for kids today?\n<li>Man. Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/04\/10\/indian-anchor-learns-her-husbands-death-while-on-air\/100285676\/\" target=\"_blank\">that<\/a> shows grace under pressure.\n<li>Interesting trivia: the live and death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/flashback\/the-angel-of-rome-dazzled-europe-with-his-voice-but-at-what-cost\/76576\" target=\"_blank\">Europe&#8217;s last castrato<\/a>.\n<li>I wonder how many U.S. hospitals would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/04\/11\/patients-last-wish-granted-cigarette-and-glass-wine.html\" target=\"_blank\">grant this dying man&#8217;s last wish<\/a>?\n<li>Now for the comic relief: <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1904901\/15-funny-posts-about-dogs-that-are-unfurgettable\" target=\"_blank\">15 funny posts about dogs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/h2\/vflt\/natalyalobanova\/cats-that-think-theyre-dogs-and-dogs-that-think-theyre\" target=\"_blank\">19 cats and dogs<\/a> with identity issues.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Less intrusive, less privacy-invading online ads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/stronger-privacy-laws-save-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\">would be better for advertisers<\/a> as well as we poor, abused potential customers.\n<li>Well, now let&#8217;s not be too hard on the poor HUD. I&#8217;m sure many of us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/15163\/ben-carson-finds-500-billion-billion-errors-during-joseph-curl#\" target=\"_blank\">make $500 billion bookkeeping errors<\/a> every week.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/04\/12\/dumb-muscle\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dumb Muscle.&#8221;<\/a> Scott Greenfield comments on this week&#8217;s United Airlines disaster.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/12\/midweek-links-45\/\">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":[8,13,15,19,20,23,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343","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=30343"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30355,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343\/revisions\/30355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}