{"id":30825,"date":"2017-05-10T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30825"},"modified":"2017-05-10T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:52:58","slug":"midweek-links-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/midweek-links-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This is cool. Amazon is building a fabulous new HQ in downtown Seattle. They&#8217;re going to reserve half of one of the new buildings for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/amazon\/amazon-creating-a-place-for-hundreds-of-homeless-on-its-shiny-new-seattle-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\">a homeless shelter for women and families<\/a>. Rent free, utilities paid.\n<li>Per jc2k in comments: a superior court judge orders a San Diego DA to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/watchdog\/sd-me-forfeit-case-20170508-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">return seized assets<\/a> to a medical marijuana dealer. The DA, Bonnie Dumanis, has been snatching millions from harmless people for a long time. In another sign of change, the phrase &#8220;policing for profit&#8221; has made it into the MSM.\n<li>Alas, in a sign of how things are still <em>not<\/em> changing in the war on drugs, there&#8217;s yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/05\/08\/authorities-warn-on-dangerous-new-gray-death-drug-that-can-kill-with-single-dose.html\" target=\"_blank\">New! More Deadly! illegal drug<\/a>. You&#8217;ll die! from a single dose. Even touching it! is dangerous. (And the drug warriors still don&#8217;t grasp that these crazy drugs exist only because of their stupid WoD.)\n<li>And in that WoD, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/crime\/seattle-police-officer-charged-in-large-scale-pot-smuggling-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\">police find even more ways to profit<\/a>.\n<li>Six <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/6-essential-rules-arguing-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">rules for arguing with jerks<\/a> online. They forgot the most important one: DON&#8217;T.\n<li>Yeah, yeah. This is mean-spirited. But I&#8217;ve always wanted to write <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-introverts-corner\/201704\/open-letter-people-who-talk-too-much\" target=\"_blank\">an open letter to people who talk too much<\/a>. Actually, I&#8217;ve wanted to stop one of those folks in the middle of one of their endless, droning sentences and ask, &#8220;If you&#8217;re not interested in what anybody else has to say, what makes you think everyone else is so very interested in hearing YOU?&#8221; (Not talking about raconteurs here, but about people who haven&#8217;t stopped moving their lips since 1972 while having nothing interesting to say.)\n<li>Those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/05\/awkward-situations\/\" target=\"_blank\">incredibly awkward moments<\/a>.\n<li>Ever wanted to move to the Italian countryside? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2017\/05\/10\/italian-village-offering-2175-cash-and-50-rents-if-you-move-there\/101504418\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s one small town<\/a> that wants you enough to pay you to do it.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>This is cool. Amazon is building a fabulous new HQ in downtown Seattle. They&#8217;re going to reserve half of one of the new buildings for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/amazon\/amazon-creating-a-place-for-hundreds-of-homeless-on-its-shiny-new-seattle-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\">a homeless shelter for women and families<\/a>. Rent free, utilities paid.\n<li>Per jc2k in comments: a superior court judge orders a San Diego DA to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/watchdog\/sd-me-forfeit-case-20170508-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">return seized assets<\/a> to a medical marijuana dealer. The DA, Bonnie Dumanis, has been snatching millions from harmless people for a long time. In another sign of change, the phrase &#8220;policing for profit&#8221; has made it into the MSM.\n<li>Alas, in a sign of how things are still <em>not<\/em> changing in the war on drugs, there&#8217;s yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/05\/08\/authorities-warn-on-dangerous-new-gray-death-drug-that-can-kill-with-single-dose.html\" target=\"_blank\">New! More Deadly! illegal drug<\/a>. You&#8217;ll die! from a single dose. Even touching it! is dangerous. (And the drug warriors still don&#8217;t grasp that these crazy drugs exist only because of their stupid WoD.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/midweek-links-47\/\">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":[5,6,16,19,20,23,24,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","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\/30825","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=30825"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30837,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30825\/revisions\/30837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}