{"id":31751,"date":"2017-07-13T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31751"},"modified":"2017-07-13T06:18:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:18:01","slug":"thursday-links-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/13\/thursday-links-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Four links on the mess in academia. <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/10\/enrollment-plummets-at-the-university-of-missouri-is-evergreen-state-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enrollment plummets<\/a> at Mizzou in wake of the infamous Melissa Click thug demonstrations. In Chicago, a prof at the Art Institute is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/chicago\/michael-bonesteel-resignation-saic-henry-darger-comics\/Content?oid=27428790\" target=\"_blank\">hounded into quitting<\/a> (H\/T jc2k). A snooty Seattlite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/its-no-joke-the-right-is-coming-after-college-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">finds it ridiculous<\/a> that &#8220;the right&#8221; is concluding that college is no longer a good thing. But college bashing might be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/449418\/right-wing-populism-next-target-american-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\">winning strategy<\/a> for a populist candidate.\n<li>Scott Greenfield gives it to clueless elitist David Brooks (and whiners everywhere) with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/07\/12\/how-lunch-meat-ruined-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How lunch meat ruined America.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Russell Redenbaugh: A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/13\/book_review_russell_redenbaughs_shift_the_narrative_102787.html\" target=\"_blank\">life lived against the odds<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shift-Narrative-Vision-Rewriting-Stories\/dp\/1630474983\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link<\/a> to his awesome story and views.)\n<li>Herschel Smith on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2017\/07\/10\/minneapolis-police-department-cop-shoots-tail-wagging-dog-more-counsel-on-learning-about-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\">cops and dogs<\/a>.\n<li>Thoreau on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/02\/10\/thoreau-hard-work-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\">meaningful vs meaningless labor<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard<\/a>, who points out that the author&#8217;s view of Thoreau is a bit on the rosey side.)\n<li>And to counterbalance all those cute stories and videos about lovable critters, enjoy a video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vx1OVLX5Rc\" target=\"_blank\">animals being jerks<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Four links on the mess in academia. <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/10\/enrollment-plummets-at-the-university-of-missouri-is-evergreen-state-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enrollment plummets<\/a> at Mizzou in wake of the infamous Melissa Click thug demonstrations. In Chicago, a prof at the Art Institute is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/chicago\/michael-bonesteel-resignation-saic-henry-darger-comics\/Content?oid=27428790\" target=\"_blank\">hounded into quitting<\/a> (H\/T jc2k). A snooty Seattlite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/its-no-joke-the-right-is-coming-after-college-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">finds it ridiculous<\/a> that &#8220;the right&#8221; is concluding that college is no longer a good thing. But college bashing might be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/449418\/right-wing-populism-next-target-american-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\">winning strategy<\/a> for a populist candidate.\n<li>Scott Greenfield gives it to clueless elitist David Brooks (and whiners everywhere) with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/07\/12\/how-lunch-meat-ruined-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How lunch meat ruined America.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Russell Redenbaugh: A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/13\/book_review_russell_redenbaughs_shift_the_narrative_102787.html\" target=\"_blank\">life lived against the odds<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shift-Narrative-Vision-Rewriting-Stories\/dp\/1630474983\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link<\/a> to his awesome story and views.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/13\/thursday-links-72\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[7,8,9,18,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751","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=31751"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31762,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751\/revisions\/31762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}