{"id":32587,"date":"2017-09-01T02:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32587"},"modified":"2017-08-31T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T04:51:33","slug":"friday-links-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/friday-links-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This cop just loves him some tasers &#8212; as he&#8217;s shown again and again. Yeah, and that family <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/cowboy-cop-tases-kid-atv\/\" target=\"_blank\">loved their young son and brother<\/a>, too. (I hope they end up owning you, Officer Pig.)\n<li>Well, guess what? The Evergreen State College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/36145\/\" target=\"_blank\">suffers &#8220;the Mizzou effect&#8221;<\/a> after that flap where racist students tried to force white people off the campus.\n<li>And it&#8217;s too bad that <a href=\"https:\/\/jmp.princeton.edu\/announcements\/some-thoughts-and-advice-our-students-and-all-students\" target=\"_blank\">this ringing endorsement of thinking for yourself<\/a> has to come from professors who were targets of the same kind of vile groupthinking wrath. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Trump&#8217;s Arpaio pardon <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-arpaio-pardon-has-plenty-of-precedents-that-got-other-presidents-in-trouble\/\" target=\"_blank\">has many terrible precedents<\/a>. (Interesting overview of presidential pardons there, too. We&#8217;re also having two contentious discussions about this <a href=\"https:\/\/clairescabal.com\" target=\"_blank\">over at the Cabal<\/a>).\n<li>Christian artists should have <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/30\/christian-artists-free-speech-game-colin-kaepernick\/\" target=\"_blank\">the same free-speech rights<\/a> as Colin Kaepernick.\n<li>Got an Accuweather app? Borepatch sez <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/if-you-use-accuweather-app-uninstall-it.html\" target=\"_blank\">get rid of it<\/a>.\n<li>Looks like just another story of a corrupt city government official (albeit one who got away with a lot before they caught her). So what I want to know is what the heck is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/state\/former-kingman-employee-pleads-guilty-to-using-city-credit-card\" target=\"_blank\">ICE Homeland Security Investigations<\/a> and why is it involved in a local case in Kingman, Arizona?\n<li>Does it sometimes seem as if Amazon is taking over the world? Believe it or not, that&#8217;s an illusion. The company may be big in Seattle and big online, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/amazon-is-actually-the-weakest-of-the-big-us-retailers-2017-08-30\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s not as big a retailer<\/a> as it appears. (H\/T ML)\n<li>Harvey highlights the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/hurricane-harveys-nationalized-insurance-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\">the nationalized flood &#8220;insurance&#8221; nightmare<\/a>.\n<li>Seattle animal shelters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/life\/pets\/seattle-takes-in-texas-shelter-dogs-to-make-room-for-4-legged-harvey-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\">take in dogs and cats<\/a> rescued from Hurricane Harvey. Lesson learned from Katrina: you do not force people to make the choice of being rescued but leaving their animals to cruel fates. (Unfortunately these cross-country transports also carry a high risk of spreading diseases.)\n<li>Texas bakers, stranded by flood waters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/08\/31\/these-texans-stranded-bakery-made-thousands-bread-loaves-hurricane-harvey-hit\/620542001\/\" target=\"_blank\">go on baking and baking and baking<\/a> for churches and shelters.\n<li>Did you know that Salvador Dali and Walt Disney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BO8ffgDbM80\" target=\"_blank\">made a cartoon together<\/a>? Strange but true.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/08\/brilliant-barcodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brilliant bar codes<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And just in case you need more good cheer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DogNursingTigerandPup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DogNursingTigerandPup-450x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DogNursingTigerandPup-450x326.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DogNursingTigerandPup.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>This cop just loves him some tasers &#8212; as he&#8217;s shown again and again. Yeah, and that family <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/cowboy-cop-tases-kid-atv\/\" target=\"_blank\">loved their young son and brother<\/a>, too. (I hope they end up owning you, Officer Pig.)\n<li>Well, guess what? The Evergreen State College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/36145\/\" target=\"_blank\">suffers &#8220;the Mizzou effect&#8221;<\/a> after that flap where racist students tried to force white people off the campus.\n<li>And it&#8217;s too bad that <a href=\"https:\/\/jmp.princeton.edu\/announcements\/some-thoughts-and-advice-our-students-and-all-students\" target=\"_blank\">this ringing endorsement of thinking for yourself<\/a> has to come from professors who were targets of the same kind of vile groupthinking wrath. (H\/T PT)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/friday-links-86\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[2,8,9,16,18,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","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\/32587","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=32587"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32608,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32587\/revisions\/32608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}