{"id":31507,"date":"2017-06-29T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31507"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:21:38","slug":"links-for-winding-down-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/links-for-winding-down-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for winding down the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Janet Yellen brings us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2017\/06\/29\/shades_of_neville_chamberlain_in_yellens_crisis_prediction_102768.html\" target=\"_blank\">shades of Neville Chamberlain<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s hope yet <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/hope_for_the_luddites_taylor_lewis\" target=\"_blank\">for the Luddites<\/a>. Thin hope, perhaps. But hope.\n<li>I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/449027\/john-mcenroe-serena-williams-controversy-shows-insanity-radical-gender-politics\" target=\"_blank\">that interview with John McEnroe<\/a>. Never even occurred to me that his praise of Serena Williams could be controversial. Observing and stating reality is a dangerous business these days.\n<li>Can libertarianism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/rising-stars\/brazils-rand-paul-can-libertarianism-fix-crime-and-corruption\/77161\" target=\"_blank\">cure Brazil&#8217;s corrupt politics<\/a>? Not holding my breath, but it&#8217;s an interesting development, anyhow.\n<li>Patients who&#8217;ve used both opiates and cannabis for pain control <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/06\/survey-pain-patients-overwhelmingly-prefer-medical-marijuana-over-opioids\/\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelmingly prefer cannabis<\/a>.\n<li>Cannabis legalization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/06\/26\/legalized-marijuana-is-making-it-harder-for-police-to-search-your-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">has other benefits<\/a>, too. Even for those who don&#8217;t use it and don&#8217;t care to. (H\/T jc2k)\n<li>Charles C. W. Cook explains how impossible it is for a Canadian court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/449064\/canadas-supreme-court-tries-take-over-internet\" target=\"_blank\">to make Justin Trudeau emperor of the worldwide web<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/us\/shooting-youtube-stunt-minnesota.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dying to be famous<\/a>. Literally. Young eejits. Darwin Award contenders for sure.\n<li>So, okay. I agree it&#8217;s good to let your kids do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2017\/06\/28\/23-dangerous-things-let-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">these 23 dangerous things<\/a>. But that some of them are even considered &#8220;dangerous&#8221; shows how totally snowflake our culture has become.\n<li>Speaking of which, anti-free-speech academics are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2017\/06\/28\/shock-dismay-in-academia-at-scorpion-acting-like-scorpion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>shocked!<\/em><\/a> when their own get bitten.\n<li>Rescue pit bull <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2278\/Rescue-Pit-Bull-Is-Elected-Town-Mayor-After-Beating-Out-A-Chicken-And-A-Donkey\" target=\"_blank\">elected town mayor<\/a> after a scandalous v*te-buying scheme!\n<\/ul>\n<p>I might (or might not) be a tad scarce for the next couple of days. I&#8217;ve got a project to do, which for one reason or another keeps slipping below my radar. I&#8217;ve finally had to carve out time for it and Just Say No to other work and all those lovely distractions life teases me with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be clocking in periodically to approve comments, check on sales of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/front-sight-certificates-benefit-to-the-blog-and-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Front Sight certificates<\/a>, and email FS signup links (hopefully including to that first buyer, whose contact info I still need). But if I&#8217;m quiet for a day or two, enjoy your summer days and don&#8217;t worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Janet Yellen brings us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2017\/06\/29\/shades_of_neville_chamberlain_in_yellens_crisis_prediction_102768.html\" target=\"_blank\">shades of Neville Chamberlain<\/a>.\n<li>There&#8217;s hope yet <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/hope_for_the_luddites_taylor_lewis\" target=\"_blank\">for the Luddites<\/a>. Thin hope, perhaps. But hope.\n<li>I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/449027\/john-mcenroe-serena-williams-controversy-shows-insanity-radical-gender-politics\" target=\"_blank\">that interview with John McEnroe<\/a>. Never even occurred to me that his praise of Serena Williams could be controversial. Observing and stating reality is a dangerous business these days.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/links-for-winding-down-the-week\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for winding down the week<\/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":[5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,15,16,19,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31507","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=31507"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31525,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31507\/revisions\/31525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}