{"id":31871,"date":"2017-07-19T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31871"},"modified":"2017-07-19T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:54:54","slug":"midweek-links-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/midweek-links-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An armed teenaged girl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guns.com\/2017\/07\/18\/teen-girl-pulls-gun-on-fugitive-trying-to-hide-out-in-her-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">runs an intruder<\/a> out of her family home. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Another scientific detective story, this one involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21725165-song-ice-and-fire-events-iceland-explain-years-famine-europes-dark\" target=\"_blank\">a volcano and an ancient European famine<\/a>.\n<li>Could it be that some of those very expensive pharmaceutical drugs that get tossed out every year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearhealth.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/18\/the_myth_of_drug_expiration_dates_110673.html\" target=\"_blank\">aren&#8217;t really expired<\/a> &#8212; and might still be good for decades?\n<li>New Hampshire becomes the 22nd state to <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/new-hampshire-decriminalizes-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">decriminalize marijuana<\/a>. Not legalize. But after all these decades of Reefer Madness they finally figured out all those pot-possession arrests weren&#8217;t worth it.\n<li>Pecksniffian insanity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/2017\/07\/johns-hopkins-university-professor-treated-like-criminal\/\" target=\"_blank\">strikes at Johns Hopkins<\/a>. Will this doctrinaire nuttery end before academia is completely gutted?\n<li>Ha ha ha. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2017\/07\/18\/delingpole-not-enough-women-people-of-color-in-dunkirk-usa-today-complains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not enough women and people of color<\/a> at Dunkirk. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>)\n<li>Okay, then. If Mars is so tricky to colonize, how &#8217;bout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59857-future-space-colony-on-titan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saturn&#8217;s moon, Titan<\/a>? As I recall, that one&#8217;s been talked about as a possibility since I was a pup.\n<li>Former drug addict and thief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2302\/Former-Drug-Addict-Returns-Stolen-Money-5-Years-Later\" target=\"_blank\">returns stolen money<\/a> five years later.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/07\/john-w-whitehead\/the-walking-dead-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Zombies R Us.&#8221;<\/a> This long piece by John W. Whitehead may not tell you anything you didn&#8217;t already know in broad outline. But it may give you some details that&#8217;ll chill those zombie bones of yours.\n<li>Okay, since you guys are so insistent that I blog that sweet video of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/animalia\/wp\/2017\/07\/18\/this-video-of-a-dog-saving-a-drowning-baby-deer-is-the-sweetest-thing-youll-see-all-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">dog rescuing the fawn<\/a> from Long Island Sound, here you go. (H\/T MtK and jc2k) My initial response was that the dog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/18\/nyregion\/dog-rescues-a-drowning-deer-and-becomes-a-social-media-hero.html\" target=\"_blank\">might have motives<\/a> other than lifesaving heroism.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>An armed teenaged girl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guns.com\/2017\/07\/18\/teen-girl-pulls-gun-on-fugitive-trying-to-hide-out-in-her-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">runs an intruder<\/a> out of her family home. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Another scientific detective story, this one involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21725165-song-ice-and-fire-events-iceland-explain-years-famine-europes-dark\" target=\"_blank\">a volcano and an ancient European famine<\/a>.\n<li>Could it be that some of those very expensive pharmaceutical drugs that get tossed out every year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearhealth.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/18\/the_myth_of_drug_expiration_dates_110673.html\" target=\"_blank\">aren&#8217;t really expired<\/a> &#8212; and might still be good for decades?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/midweek-links-50\/\">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":[5,7,8,12,13,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871","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=31871"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31884,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871\/revisions\/31884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}