{"id":33403,"date":"2017-10-14T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T20:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33403"},"modified":"2017-10-14T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T20:38:17","slug":"weekend-links-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/weekend-links-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-being-a-skinflint-became-sexy-2017-10-14\" target=\"_blank\">Making &#8220;frugal&#8221; sexy.<\/a>\n<li>Why did the left go nuts when Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452674\/trumps-obamacare-order-faithfully-executes-law\" target=\"_blank\">obeyed the law<\/a> on Obamacare?\n<li>Although this article manages to sling the usual mainstream insults, there&#8217;s no question: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-grandfather-of-alt-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Robinson and his family<\/a> do fascinating science.\n<li>Clayton Cramer &#8212; whose research was instrumental in busting lying anti-gun &#8220;historian&#8221; Michael Bellesiles &#8212; is writing a book on mass murder in America <a href=\"https:\/\/claytonecramer.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/comments-suggestions.html\" target=\"_blank\">and would like reader comments<\/a>.\n<li>The Nobel econ folks just gave their prize to Richard Thaler who (under the mindboggling guise of &#8220;paternalistic libertarianism&#8221;) wants government to nudge us in the direction of &#8220;right&#8221; behavior. It&#8217;s silly even to ask <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/10\/13\/can-we-trust-government-to-correct-our-cognitive-biases\/\" target=\"_blank\">if government can remotely achieve such a thing<\/a>.\n<li>Enough about North America&#8217;s supervolcano. Italy&#8217;s supervolcano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/will-italy-rsquo-s-ominous-supervolcano-erupt-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">is behaving much more badly<\/a>.\n<li>Baylen Linnekin (great name) at Reason <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2017\/10\/14\/chicagos-soda-tax-fizzles\" target=\"_blank\">has more on the Chicago soda tax flop<\/a>.\n<li>Robert Heinlein and <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2017\/10\/14\/robert-a-heinlein-and-james-branch-cabell\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Branch Cabell<\/a>.\n<li>Yikes. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/dropping-turkeys-planes-triggers-arkansas-festival-flap-50470225\" target=\"_blank\">WKRP in Arkansas<\/a>. And somehow air-dropping turkeys isn&#8217;t as amusing in real life. (H\/T JB)\n<li>Mayim Bialik: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/13\/opinion\/mayim-bialik-feminist-harvey-weinstein.html\" target=\"_blank\">sensible feminist<\/a>.\n<li>Equifax gets hacked. IRS rewards it with a $7.25 million no-bid contract. Equifax gets hacked again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/irs-suspends-equifax-contract-cites-new-information\/eIfWiMy9D6OkKqRIgNHeCM\/\" target=\"_blank\">IRS withdraws contract<\/a>.\n<li>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/10\/viking-funeral-clothes-arabic-sweden-spd\/\" target=\"_blank\">those old vikings did get around<\/a>. Old Arabs probably did, too.\n<li>Trump claims he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burrardstreetjournal.com\/trump-claims-witnessed-numerous-sexual-assaults-high-profile-tv-exec-now-works-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">witnessed many sexual assaults<\/a> by a high-level TV exec who has since gone into politics. \ud83d\ude09\n<li>Florida pet shelter begins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/os-pet-shelter-adoption-dog-breeds-20171009-story.html\" target=\"_blanK\">identifying adoptables by their &#8220;Dogwarts&#8221; houses<\/a> instead of by breed. Fark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/9767477\/In-attempt-to-find-hard-to-adopt-dog-breeds-homes-pet-shelters-to-stop-listing-dogs-by-breed-will-instead-use-Harry-Potter-themed-sorting-system-Your-dog-wants-Snape\" target=\"_blank\">has great fun with that<\/a>. (H\/T JB)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-being-a-skinflint-became-sexy-2017-10-14\" target=\"_blank\">Making &#8220;frugal&#8221; sexy.<\/a>\n<li>Why did the left go nuts when Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452674\/trumps-obamacare-order-faithfully-executes-law\" target=\"_blank\">obeyed the law<\/a> on Obamacare?\n<li>Although this article manages to sling the usual mainstream insults, there&#8217;s no question: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-grandfather-of-alt-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Robinson and his family<\/a> do fascinating science.\n<li>Clayton Cramer &#8212; whose research was instrumental in busting lying anti-gun &#8220;historian&#8221; Michael Bellesiles &#8212; is writing a book on mass murder in America <a href=\"https:\/\/claytonecramer.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/comments-suggestions.html\" target=\"_blank\">and would like reader comments<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/weekend-links-80\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[4,8,11,12,13,16,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","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\/33403","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=33403"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33422,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33403\/revisions\/33422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}