{"id":32833,"date":"2017-09-14T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32833"},"modified":"2017-09-14T07:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:38:03","slug":"thursday-links-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/thursday-links-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It is &#8220;standard procedure&#8221; to tase a 5&#8217;4&#8243; kid in the genitals <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/genitals-taser-standard-procedure\/\" target=\"_blank\">while screaming you&#8221;re going to kill him<\/a>. Worked, too. They killed him just fine. Then the lies commenced.\n<li>The money quote: &#8220;If architects designed buildings the way engineers design software, the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/hey-alexa-can-you-hear-this-dog-whistle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks, Borepatch.<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/09\/outrageous-whiny-sen-rand-paul-tries-ending-war-afghanistan-16-years\" target=\"_blank\">Satire<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/09\/13\/rand-pauls-aumf-amendment-endless-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reality.<\/a> On Rand Paul&#8217;s attempt to stop the endless Afghan war.\n<li>We can only wish this were satire: Is your refrigerator <a href=\"http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2017\/09\/12\/internet-of-things-cybersecurity\/\" target=\"_blank\">a national security risk<\/a>? (H\/T ML)\n<li>Although some of the &#8220;solutions&#8221; are dreadful, it&#8217;s certainly true that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/13\/opinion\/your-social-security-number-isnt-a-secret.html\" target=\"_blank\">our SSNs are a crappy personal identifier<\/a>.\n<li>ICE pays Arizona motel employees to report illegal aliens. Two Motel 6 locations (that we know of) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/motel-6-ice-agents-undocumented-illegal-immigrants-phoenix-arizona-2017-9\" target=\"_blank\">have automated systems<\/a> <em>to turn in ALL guests from Mexico<\/em>.\n<li>Custom&#8217;s agents seize an innocent man&#8217;s truck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/amphtml\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/09\/13\/customs-agents-seized-a-lawful-gun-owners-truck-over-five-bullets-now-hes-suing-to-get-it-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">over five &#8220;bullets&#8221;*<\/a>. And a photo the privileged agents of the state objected to. Two years later, this fierce libertarian is suing to get his property back.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/09\/13\/liberals-sick-alt-left-are-taking-red-pill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Red-pill liberals.<\/a> Oh, how I hope this makes a difference.\n<li>John Judis who, with Ruy Texiera, literally wrote the book claiming demographics = destiny for the Dems <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/144547\/redoing-electoral-math-argued-demographics-favored-democrats-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">now says he was wrong<\/a>.\n<li>Have the cheap seats in airplanes become so cramped that they&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/flying-coach-is-so-cramped-it-could-be-a-death-trap\" target=\"_blank\">kill or cripple you<\/a> in a &#8220;brace for impact&#8221; scenario?\n<li>How a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20170911-portugals-sneaky-sausage-that-saved-jews\" target=\"_blank\">sneaky sausage<\/a> saved hundreds of Portugal&#8217;s Jews from the Spanish Inquisition.\n<li>Thirteen <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/2748165\/13-horrifying-face-swaps-that-will-haunt-your-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">bizarro face swaps<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* Hey, it&#8217;s the WaPo; what can you say? At least their heart&#8217;s in the right place this time, even if their terminology still sucks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>It is &#8220;standard procedure&#8221; to tase a 5&#8217;4&#8243; kid in the genitals <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/genitals-taser-standard-procedure\/\" target=\"_blank\">while screaming you&#8221;re going to kill him<\/a>. Worked, too. They killed him just fine.\n<li>The money quote: &#8220;If architects designed buildings the way engineers design software, the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/hey-alexa-can-you-hear-this-dog-whistle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks, Borepatch.<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2017\/09\/outrageous-whiny-sen-rand-paul-tries-ending-war-afghanistan-16-years\" target=\"_blank\">Satire<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/09\/13\/rand-pauls-aumf-amendment-endless-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reality.<\/a> On Rand Paul&#8217;s attempt to stop the endless Afghan war.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/thursday-links-73\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[6,7,9,12,18,19,23,25,28,30,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-war","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833","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=32833"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32848,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions\/32848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}