{"id":30486,"date":"2017-04-22T07:32:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30486"},"modified":"2017-04-22T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T01:43:56","slug":"weekend-links-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/22\/weekend-links-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hilarious. And oh so true: &#8220;Please, God, stop Chelsea Clinton from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/04\/please-god-stop-chelsea-clinton-from-whatever-she-is-doing\" target=\"_blank\">whatever she is doing.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>For general edification and wonderment, here&#8217;s a blog about <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com\/2017\/04\/maduro-dictator-hour.html\" target=\"_blank\">dictatorship and resistance<\/a> in Venezuela. (H\/T M)\n<li>University officials tell a fraternity their planned event is appropriating someone else&#8217;s culture. But they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-fraternity-was-told-it-was-appropriating-culture-administrators-wont-say-which\/2017\/04\/20\/d57fa01a-25e1-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">refuse to state<\/a> <em>which<\/em> culture.\n<li>It&#8217;s definitely beginning to appear that the most elite colleges today are primarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/we-few-we-miserable-few-15145.html\" target=\"_blank\">teaching illiteracy and self-righteousness<\/a>. As a former blue-collar kid, it completely hacks me to hear students at pricey private schools whine and rant about how oppressed they are. As a sensible person, I wonder when parents are going to start yanking the budgets for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/04\/20\/short-take-heckuva-job-brownie-they-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">this sort<\/a> of &#8220;education.&#8221;\n<li>Well, now. There&#8217;s a bit of good news. The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/04\/19\/supreme-court-voids-colorados-presumption-of-guilt-nelson-v-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\">confirms that a state can&#8217;t make you prove your innocence<\/a>.\n<li>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-39663473\" target=\"_blank\">fine job<\/a> by the TSA. Not to mention another act of brilliance by an off-duty cop. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Build a $400 internet-connected juicer and Silicon Valley venture capitalists will beat a path to your door. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2017-04-19\/silicon-valley-s-400-juicer-may-be-feeling-the-squeeze\" target=\"_blank\">The problem comes<\/a> when customers learn they could squeeze your pre-packaged juice mixes just as well by hand.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/finding-your-voice\/201704\/why-i-sing\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I sing.&#8221;<\/a> (Which could as easily be &#8220;why I dance&#8221; or &#8220;why I paint&#8221; or even &#8220;why I meditate&#8221;).\n<li>Love it. Artist Ken Bailey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenbailey.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">depicts dogs and cats<\/a> in the form of made-up old-timey advertising posters.\n<li>While some of these places charge as much for a night as I make in a year, these are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-luxury-rentals-with-the-best-bathtub-views-ranked-by-price-2017-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">my idea of what a bathtub ought to be<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>For general edification and wonderment, here&#8217;s a blog about <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com\/2017\/04\/maduro-dictator-hour.html\" target=\"_blank\">dictatorship and resistance<\/a> in Venezuela. (H\/T M)\n<li>University officials tell a fraternity their planned event is appropriating someone else&#8217;s culture. But they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-fraternity-was-told-it-was-appropriating-culture-administrators-wont-say-which\/2017\/04\/20\/d57fa01a-25e1-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">refuse to state<\/a> <em>which<\/em> culture.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/22\/weekend-links-65\/\">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":[2,6,7,8,11,18,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486","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=30486"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30506,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions\/30506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}