{"id":31964,"date":"2017-07-23T18:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T01:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=31964"},"modified":"2017-07-23T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:26:21","slug":"sundaymonday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/23\/sundaymonday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday\/Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><del datetime=\"2017-07-23T16:14:29+00:00\">Nero<\/del> Cuomo fiddles while <del datetime=\"2017-07-23T16:14:29+00:00\">Rome<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/city-hall\/story\/2017\/07\/19\/as-subways-suffer-cuomo-plans-choreographed-bridge-lights-113405\" target=\"_blank\">New York burns<\/a>\n<li>Creative outlawry (whether you like it or not): Seattle skateboarders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/crime\/illicit-skatepark-on-green-lakes-duck-island-cops-called-on-bowl-built-in-bird-habitat\/\" target=\"_blank\">construct an illicit skateboard bowl<\/a> on a lake island. They win a national prize. Unfortunately the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/green-lakes-illicit-skateboard-bowl-to-be-scrapped-and-an-attorney-offers-to-represent-skaters-who-built-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">bowl will be torn out<\/a> and the prize was rescinded.\n<li>I don&#8217;t agree with the premise, but this article is still a fascinating look back: How the 1967 Summer of Love <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/how-san-franciscos-summer-of-love-sparked-todays-religious-movements\/article\/1607614\" target=\"_blank\">sparked today&#8217;s religious movements<\/a>.\n<li>Good for Claremont McKenna College, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/07\/17\/claremont-mckenna-college-disciplines-seven-students-for-blockade-that-shut-down-heather-mac-donald-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">standing for free speech<\/a>. School officials disciplined snowflake students who tried to prevent &#8220;offensive&#8221; views from being heard.\n<li>Unfortunately, elsewhere in California (ironically in Berkeley, once the home of the Free Speech Movement), <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/21\/richard-dawkins-deplatformed-at-a-book-talk-berkeley-for-abusive-speech-about-islam-on-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">cultural insanity still reigns<\/a> as Richard Dawkins, a man who doesn&#8217;t like anybody&#8217;s religion, is &#8220;de-platformed&#8221; on false charges of being particularly insensitive to that one special religion that&#8217;s beyond criticism nowadays.\n<li>Via Dana in comments: How <em>Downton Abbey<\/em> (and they don&#8217;t say it, but free enterprise and a bit of luck) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2015\/sep\/19\/downton-abbey-highclere-castle-tourist-cash-funds-repairs\" target=\"_blank\">saved Highclere Castle from ruin<\/a>.\n<li>Love that first line: &#8220;As it tends to do when not in political control in Washington, the Left has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertylawsite.org\/2017\/07\/20\/viva-national-league-of-cities-v-usery\/\" target=\"_blank\">rediscovered the power of state sovereignty<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>Is it easier for a robot to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/professionals-and-managers-youre-next-15289.html\" target=\"_blank\">replace a middle manager or a junior attorney<\/a> than a skilled tradesman? Now wouldn&#8217;t that put the shoe on the other foot!\n<li>A two-year old is severely brain damaged after a near drowning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2309\/2-Year-Olds-Brain-Damage-Has-Been-Reversed-After-Near-Drowning\" target=\"_blank\">New treatments <em>reverse<\/em> the harm<\/a> and return her to normal life.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><del datetime=\"2017-07-23T16:14:29+00:00\">Nero<\/del> Cuomo fiddles while <del datetime=\"2017-07-23T16:14:29+00:00\">Rome<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/city-hall\/story\/2017\/07\/19\/as-subways-suffer-cuomo-plans-choreographed-bridge-lights-113405\" target=\"_blank\">New York burns<\/a>\n<li>Creative outlawry (whether you like it or not): Seattle skateboarders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/crime\/illicit-skatepark-on-green-lakes-duck-island-cops-called-on-bowl-built-in-bird-habitat\/\" target=\"_blank\">construct an illicit skateboard bowl<\/a> on a lake island. They win a national prize. Unfortunately the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/green-lakes-illicit-skateboard-bowl-to-be-scrapped-and-an-attorney-offers-to-represent-skaters-who-built-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">bowl will be torn out<\/a> and the prize was rescinded.\n<li>I don&#8217;t agree with the premise, but this article is still a fascinating look back: How the 1967 Summer of Love <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/how-san-franciscos-summer-of-love-sparked-todays-religious-movements\/article\/1607614\" target=\"_blank\">sparked today&#8217;s religious movements<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/23\/sundaymonday-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday\/Monday 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":[2,6,7,9,11,13,19,20,21,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-monkeywrenching","category-religion","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964","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=31964"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31985,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions\/31985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}