{"id":32436,"date":"2017-08-22T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32436"},"modified":"2017-08-22T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:47:26","slug":"midweek-links-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/midweek-links-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>From the &#8220;damn, why didn&#8217;t I think of that?&#8221; department: If you want to get rid of monuments to slavery, <a href=\"https:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/point-well-taken.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the best place to start<\/a>.\n<li>The most interesting thing about this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/irs-using-bitcoin-tracking-software-since-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">the IRS tracking Bitcoin transactions<\/a> is the disclaimer at the end. The reporting publication, the IRS&#8217;s tracking contractor, and a company being sued by the IRS &#8230; are all subsidiaries of the same outfit. Sounds very Appalachian to me.\n<li>Oh look. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/crime\/ouch-gun-goes-off-man-shoots-self-in-groin-on\/article_5322e8c0-a70d-54c0-9167-374c13ed7530.html\" target=\"_blank\">male candidate<\/a> to match yesterday&#8217;s female survived-but-should-still-get-a-Darwin-Award nominee. Heck, maybe they can even date each other &#8212; even if all they can do is hold hands.\n<li>Donald Trump, his family, and the ridiculous practice of treating politicians as if they and their families are royalty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/08\/21\/secret-service-cant-pay-agents-because-trumps-frequent-travel-large-family\/529075001\/\" target=\"_blank\">have emptied the coffers of the Secret Service<\/a> and caused weary agents to quit.\n<li>Being awestruck now and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/science\/being-awe-struck-by-a-solar-eclipse-or-another-astounding-event-has-surprising-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\">may make you a better person<\/a>.\n<li>If you&#8217;re in the U.S. and you missed this week&#8217;s eclipse <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/08\/so-youre-not-seeing-the-eclipse-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">here are your next chances<\/a>.\n<li>But just hope the next eclipse <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/21\/not-a-joke-atlantic-article-notes-that-eclipse-path-moves-over-many-white-areas-uses-path-to-indict-america-for-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">won&#8217;t be as shockingly racist<\/a> as yesterday&#8217;s was. (Comments are hilarious.)\n<li>And from the &#8220;oh how I wish I&#8217;d written that&#8221; department: Kurt Schlichter notes that <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2017\/08\/21\/normal-americans-are-bored-by-the-fake-drama-n2371131\" target=\"_blank\">actual Americans are bored with all the fake drama<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>From the &#8220;damn, why didn&#8217;t I think of that?&#8221; department: If you want to get rid of monuments to slavery, <a href=\"https:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/point-well-taken.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the best place to start<\/a>.\n<li>The most interesting thing about this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/irs-using-bitcoin-tracking-software-since-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">the IRS tracking Bitcoin transactions<\/a> is the disclaimer at the end. The reporting publication, the IRS&#8217;s tracking contractor, and a company being sued by the IRS &#8230; are all subsidiaries of the same outfit. Sounds very Appalachian to me.\n<li>Oh look. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/crime\/ouch-gun-goes-off-man-shoots-self-in-groin-on\/article_5322e8c0-a70d-54c0-9167-374c13ed7530.html\" target=\"_blank\">male candidate<\/a> to match yesterday&#8217;s female survived-but-should-still-get-a-Darwin-Award nominee. Heck, maybe they can even date each other &#8212; even if all they can do is hold hands.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/midweek-links-54\/\">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":[6,7,12,16,18,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","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\/32436","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=32436"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32448,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32436\/revisions\/32448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}