{"id":32047,"date":"2017-07-30T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32047"},"modified":"2017-07-29T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:10:56","slug":"weekend-links-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/30\/weekend-links-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links II"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>About that presidential speech to the Boy Scouts that has everybody in such a tizzy? Former scout (and Jamboree attendee) Jim Bovard sez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/07\/28\/upside-trumps-despicable-boy-scout-speech\/513530001\/\" target=\"_blank\">maybe it was a better lesson<\/a> than the stuff they usually get.\n<li>When American religion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/flashback\/the-forgotten-religions-that-worshipped-electricity\/79554#.WXtcUgTpQkc.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">worshipped electricity<\/a>.\n<li>Reality check: Does too much sugar <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3631492\/high-sugar-intake-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\">trigger depression<\/a>?\n<li>McCain&#8217;s cold revenge against Trump, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/mccains-revenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Paul&#8217;s fresh, hot revenge<\/a> against McCain. (And remember, children, Your Government is made up of wise men and women who know better than you what&#8217;s right for everyone. They carefully deliberate always make the best possible choices for you and me.)\n<li>How LSD <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2017\/07\/10\/how-lsd-opened-minds-and-changed-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">opened minds and changed America<\/a>.\n<li>LOL! TSA <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/civil-rights\/344466-tsa-justifies-searches-with-op-eds-more-than-facts-is-my\" target=\"_blank\">justifies its absurd tactics<\/a> not with science but with news articles and editorials.\n<li>One of the toughest criminal-justice states <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/texas-criminal-justice-reform-conservatives-liberals-bipartisan-alliance-2017-7\" target=\"_blank\">begins to join the movement<\/a> for reform. (LarryA, you got any comment on this?)\n<li>&#8220;Just a couple years before America\u2019s war in Afghanistan would turn 18 and leave home for good, the Kabul government has confirmed it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/07\/afghanistan-becomes-pregnant-new-trillion-dollar-baby-us-refuses-pull\/\" target=\"_blank\">pregnant again with another trillion-dollar baby American war<\/a>.&#8221; A little more military humor.\n<li>Remember before tiny houses were trendy? I liked &#8217;em. I especially liked the unassuming designs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townandcountryplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Cabin Company<\/a>. My Cabin Sweet Cabin was based on one of their plans. The other day I stumbled upon some <a href=\"http:\/\/jamaicacottageshop.com\/shop\/writers-haven\/\" target=\"_blank\">less unassuming designs<\/a> for little cottages, including the Writer&#8217;s Haven linked there. Wouldn&#8217;t buy their ready-mades, but the plans are reasonable.<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>About that presidential speech to the Boy Scouts that has everybody in such a tizzy? Former scout (and Jamboree attendee) Jim Bovard sez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/07\/28\/upside-trumps-despicable-boy-scout-speech\/513530001\/\" target=\"_blank\">maybe it was a better lesson<\/a> than the stuff they usually get.\n<li>When American religion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/flashback\/the-forgotten-religions-that-worshipped-electricity\/79554#.WXtcUgTpQkc.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">worshipped electricity<\/a>.\n<li>Reality check: Does too much sugar <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3631492\/high-sugar-intake-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\">trigger depression<\/a>?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/30\/weekend-links-ii\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend links II<\/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":[11,13,14,16,18,19,23,25,29,31,49,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-home-improvement","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-religion","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-stupid-security","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047","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=32047"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32062,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047\/revisions\/32062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}