{"id":30895,"date":"2017-05-14T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30895"},"modified":"2017-05-14T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T15:32:07","slug":"weekend-links-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/14\/weekend-links-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/u-of-arizona-is-hiring-social-justice-advocates-to-police-fellow-students-for-bias-incidents\/\" target=\"_blank\">the New Soviet Union<\/a>, comrades &#8212; where you can now be paid to inform on the &#8220;incorrect&#8221; opinions of your peers. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Scary. The Washington state gov &#8212; with the cooperation of the quisling NRA &#8212; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2017\/05\/new-washington-state-background-check-failure-reporting-law-raises-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">attempting to put teeth<\/a> into firearm background checks. Considering that up to 95% of denials may be in error, this could seriously screw with thousands of innocent people.\n<li>I know this area of southern Oregon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/13\/us\/anti-tax-fervor-roseburg-oregon-.html\" target=\"_blank\">and I get it<\/a>. The rage, the resistance. The hidden America Our Masters fear but never understand. But never sacrifice your libraries. Bring them back privately if you can. (H\/T jc2k in comments)*\n<li>That worldwide cyberattack last week? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-22-year-old-stopped-global-cyberattack-ransomware-registering-domain-2017-5\" target=\"_blank\">a 22-year-old who lives with his parents<\/a> halted it. Only temporarily, though.\n<li>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2017\/05\/14\/525569408\/cant-pay-your-student-loans-the-government-may-come-after-your-house\" target=\"_blank\">signs of trouble<\/a> in the student loan bubble. First, the fedgov makes it impossible to get out of debt. Then they put your house at risk.\n<li>Can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/archaeology\/1.788626\" target=\"_blank\">observant Jews eat bacon<\/a>? <em>Oy vey!<\/em>\n<li>Speaking of food &#8230; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2017\/05\/12\/kaiser-doctors-now-check-up-patients-cupboards-they-bare\/101530218\/\" target=\"_blank\">this merely another form of medical nosiness<\/a>? Or is it a real sign of how bad things are getting for ordinary working people?\n<li>Mothers: neither you nor anybody else will be surprised to know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/05\/moms-kids-hijacked-brain-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">your kids hijacked your brain<\/a> for life. Happy Mothers Day.\n<li>Life. It&#8217;s like this. But <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1924616\/\" target=\"_blank\">usually not so cute<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* The world&#8217;s best library system is one (of many) reasons I live where I do. Though I&#8217;d far, far rather it be funded privately, I was pretty astounded a few years ago when a local tax levy for it passed with 90% support. And this area is not terribly different than those in article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/u-of-arizona-is-hiring-social-justice-advocates-to-police-fellow-students-for-bias-incidents\/\" target=\"_blank\">the New Soviet Union<\/a>, comrades &#8212; where you can now be paid to inform on the &#8220;incorrect&#8221; opinions of your peers. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Scary. The Washington state gov &#8212; with the cooperation of the quisling NRA &#8212; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2017\/05\/new-washington-state-background-check-failure-reporting-law-raises-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">attempting to put teeth<\/a> into firearm background checks. Considering that up to 95% of denials may be in error, this could seriously screw with thousands of innocent people.\n<li>I know this area of southern Oregon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/13\/us\/anti-tax-fervor-roseburg-oregon-.html\" target=\"_blank\">and I get it<\/a>. The rage, the resistance. The hidden America Our Masters fear but never understand. But never sacrifice your libraries. Bring them back privately if you can. (H\/T jc2k in comments)*\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/14\/weekend-links-67\/\">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":[7,8,9,11,12,13,16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895","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=30895"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30909,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions\/30909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}