{"id":31124,"date":"2017-05-27T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31124"},"modified":"2017-05-27T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T19:07:58","slug":"weekend-links-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/27\/weekend-links-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>John Lott gives that stats for what ought to be obvious: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/03\/murder_isnt_a_nationwide_problem_110234.html\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. does not have a murder problem<\/a>. Certain counties have a murder problem. (And no doubt also certain neighborhoods within those counties, and certain individuals within those neighborhoods.)\n<li>Ooh. That hurts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2017\/05\/i-threw-away-4-8-million-in-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I threw away $4.8 million<\/a> in bitcoin. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>Fairly decent article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/24\/reversing_the_unkindest_cuts_of_knife_laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">about the knife-rights movement<\/a>.\n<li>Mixed blessing. Pitbull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/news\/2017\/05\/25\/rescued-pit-bull-gets-second-chance-as-k-9-officer\/22110214\/\" target=\"_blank\">saved from death row<\/a> is now a drug warrior. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT)\n<li>Attempted murder survivor <a href=\"http:\/\/universe.byu.edu\/2017\/05\/26\/survivor-of-attempted-murder-tells-girls-to-fight-back1\/\" target=\"_blank\">tells women to fight back<\/a> via her Fight Like Girls program.\n<li>Nobody can give a pat definition of happiness. At least not one that applies to other people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?item.8048.1\" target=\"_blank\">The great Wendy McElroy is working on her own<\/a> happiness, though. And her way sounds like a good idea to me.\n<li>Obvious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/05\/stupid-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\">signs<\/a> humanity is regressing.\n<li>Stone pavers <a href=\"https:\/\/upcycledgardenstyle.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/stone-pavers-become-stone-planters.html\" target=\"_blank\">turned into stone planters<\/a>. Clever! And nice looking. (H\/T MJ)\n<li>Dr. Ollie Daube is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorportal.com.au\/mjainsight\/2017\/19\/dog-of-a-dilemma-the-rise-of-the-predatory-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the boards of seven medical journals<\/a>. Dr. Ollie Daube is also a Staffordshire terrier.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lott gives that stats for what ought to be obvious: The U.S. does not have a murder problem. Certain counties have a murder problem. (And no doubt also certain neighborhoods within those counties, and certain individuals within those neighborhoods.) Ooh. That hurts: &#8220;I threw away $4.8 million in bitcoin. (H\/T MtK) Fairly decent article about the knife-rights movement. Mixed blessing. Pitbull saved from death row is now a drug warrior. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT) Attempted murder survivor tells women to fight back via her Fight Like Girls program. Nobody can give a pat definition of happiness. At least&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/27\/weekend-links-68\/\">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":[6,8,12,16,18,19,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/31124","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=31124"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31133,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions\/31133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}