{"id":30450,"date":"2017-04-19T11:48:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30450"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:55:16","slug":"midweek-links-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/midweek-links-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/dhs-head-to-america-shut-up-be-terrified\" target=\"_blank\">Shut up,<\/a> be terrified, and do what you&#8217;re told, Americans.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/04\/19\/11-charts-that-show-marijuana-has-truly-gone-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eleven charts<\/a> that show just how mainstream cannabis has become. We&#8217;ve come a long way, baby. (Although as the first link shows, not always in the right direction.)\n<li>Get a load o&#8217; this. A cop (ex-cop now) is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/personally-liable-shooting-death-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered to pay out of pocket<\/a> to compensate the family of the teen he killed. Individual accountability begins at last for agents of the state.\n<li>I wonder if this former agent of the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/newswires\/news\/national\/prosecutors-move-toss-21-000-tainted-drug-cases-article-1.3067602\" target=\"_blank\">will be held liable<\/a> by her (potentially) 21,000 victims? It&#8217;s taken long enough &#8212; nearly four years! &#8212; for the state to move on canceling their convictions.\n<li>Oh, da poo widdle campus thought police. Apparently we don&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/04\/15\/the-campus-thought-police-want-you-to-feel-sorry-for-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">feel sufficiently sorry<\/a> for them.\n<li>Love the headline: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/04\/open-the-pod-bay-doors-watson-ibm-introduces-cognitive-rooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Open the pod bay doors, Watson.&#8221;<\/a> The implications will of course be lost on those rushing to adopt smarttech.\n<li>If this study proves accurate (and so many don&#8217;t, these days), it turns a very old piece of common knowledge on its head. Salt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/salt-hungry-not-thirsty-study-article-1.3069506\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t make you thirsty<\/a>; it makes you <em>hungry<\/em>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/04\/funny-pareidolia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faces in everyday objects<\/a> (but not a single Jesus or Virgin Mary in a tortilla, you&#8217;ll be glad to know).\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/dhs-head-to-america-shut-up-be-terrified\" target=\"_blank\">Shut up,<\/a> be terrified, and do what you&#8217;re told, Americans.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/04\/19\/11-charts-that-show-marijuana-has-truly-gone-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eleven charts<\/a> that show just how mainstream cannabis has become. We&#8217;ve come a long way, baby. (Although as the first link shows, not always in the right direction.)\n<li>Get a load o&#8217; this. A cop (ex-cop now) is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/personally-liable-shooting-death-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordered to pay out of pocket<\/a> to compensate the family of the teen he killed. Individual accountability begins at last for agents of the state.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/midweek-links-46\/\">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":[5,13,16,19,20,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450","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=30450"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30461,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions\/30461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}