{"id":32192,"date":"2017-08-08T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32192"},"modified":"2017-08-08T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:33:35","slug":"tuesday-links-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/tuesday-links-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/08\/time-repeal-17th-amendment-end-direct-election-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\">Repeal the 17th amendment<\/a>. I&#8217;ve often thought this was needed, too. Not that it would perform any freedom miracles. But it would make the states &#8230; well, states again.\n<li>Naturally, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/08\/google-fires-engineer-noticing-men-women-different\/\" target=\"_blank\">fired that engineer<\/a> yesterday. Mustn&#8217;t allow anyone to question rightthink.\n<li>Held for over three years by the fedgov. Denied a right to a lawyer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/01\/540903038\/u-s-citizen-held-by-immigration-for-3-years-denied-compensation-by-appeals-court\" target=\"_blank\">Now he&#8217;s denied compensation<\/a> &#8212; and Orwell could have written the reason.\n<li>Another of those <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2017\/08\/05\/another-gun-confiscations-told-never-happens\/\" target=\"_blank\">gun confiscations<\/a> that never happen.\n<li>Young couple downsizes and <a href=\"http:\/\/twocuphouse.com\/2017\/03\/14\/debt-freedom-oh-yeah\/\" target=\"_blank\">erases $200k worth of debt<\/a>. Now aims for financial independence in two years.\n<li>And here&#8217;s a 34-year-old who worked to achieve financial independence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madfientist.com\/first-year-of-freedom\" target=\"_blank\">and shares the learnings<\/a> from his first year of success.\n<li>Seattle set a record a few months ago for the rainiest winter. Today it will break the record for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/weather\/seattle-is-going-to-break-the-record-for-most-consecutive-dry-days\/\" target=\"_blank\">longest dry spell<\/a> since 1951. I&#8217;m sure somebody will blame global warming for both. I blame the gods and their capricious tempers.\n<li>You, too can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/04\/education\/edlife\/learning-how-to-learn-barbara-oakley.html\" target=\"_blank\">rewire your brain<\/a> for learning. I dunno. Sounds like a lot of work to me.\n<li>How to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakadesuyo.com\/2017\/07\/how-to-stop-being-a-pushover\/\" target=\"_blank\">stop being a pushover<\/a>. Applies to our relationship with governments, too.\n<li>The insidious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2017\/08\/07\/insidious-disguises-jealousy\/\" target=\"_blank\">disguises of jealousy<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/08\/time-repeal-17th-amendment-end-direct-election-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\">Repeal the 17th amendment<\/a>. I&#8217;ve often thought this was needed, too. Not that it would perform any freedom miracles. But it would make the states &#8230; well, states again.\n<li>Naturally, Google <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/08\/google-fires-engineer-noticing-men-women-different\/\" target=\"_blank\">fired that engineer<\/a> yesterday. Mustn&#8217;t allow anyone to question rightthink.\n<li>Held for over three years by the fedgov. Denied a right to a lawyer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/08\/01\/540903038\/u-s-citizen-held-by-immigration-for-3-years-denied-compensation-by-appeals-court\" target=\"_blank\">Now he&#8217;s denied compensation<\/a> &#8212; and Orwell could have written the reason.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/tuesday-links-95\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[7,11,18,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/32192","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=32192"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32206,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions\/32206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}