{"id":33518,"date":"2017-10-21T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33518"},"modified":"2017-10-21T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T18:02:26","slug":"weekend-links-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/21\/weekend-links-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>When you worry about big corps taking over the world (and I admit I often do, when those corps are Silicon Valley outfits that try to control how people think), remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/fortune-500-firms-1955-v-2017-only-12-remain-thanks-to-the-creative-destruction-that-fuels-economic-prosperity\/\" target=\"_blank\">only 12 percent of The Fortune 500 companies<\/a> from 1955 still exist in 2017.\n<li>Catalonia is not alone. Two prosperous northern regions <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/10\/20\/two-regions-vote-on-autonomy-from-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">are seeking more autonomy<\/a> from Italy. (But then, Italy&#8217;s never quite been a country in the way we tend to think of country.)\n<li>Holy cats. I had no idea that product reviewing was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3065928\/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars\" target=\"_blank\">either that lucrative<\/a> or that dirty a business. (Via Adam in comments)\n<li>A millennial&#8217;s view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-i-wear-dead-mens-shoes-and-you-should-too-2017-10-21\" target=\"_blank\">of thrift-store shopping<\/a>. While I&#8217;d skip the $100 &#8220;bargain&#8221; shoes, he&#8217;s got the right idea.\n<li>A Jewish millennial&#8217;s view <a href=\"http:\/\/jewcy.com\/jewish-religion-and-beliefs\/bless-the-tsar\" target=\"_blank\">of Shabbat dinner<\/a>.\n<li>What would Hayek say if he saw the rolling disaster that is Obamacare? Probably, <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/hayek-warned-us-about-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I told you so.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>The liberal <em>Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/21\/harvey-weinstein-liberal-world\" target=\"_blank\">excoriates the liberal Harvey Weinstein<\/a> and all those other liberals now weeping crocodile tears.\n<li>The latest patent scam: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-41679407\" target=\"_blank\">turn your patents over to a sovereign Indian tribe<\/a>.\n<li>Your awww story for today. No cute dogs involved. Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/positive-good-news.php?newsid=2438\/Teen-Boys-Approach-Homeless-Man-Give-Him-A-Blanket-And-Tuck-Him-In\" target=\"_blank\">teenage boys and a homeless man<\/a>; not the usual recipe for sweetness.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dogandlizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dogandlizard-254x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dogandlizard-254x450.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dogandlizard-451x800.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dogandlizard.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>When you worry about big corps taking over the world (and I admit I often do, when those corps are Silicon Valley outfits that try to control how people think), remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/fortune-500-firms-1955-v-2017-only-12-remain-thanks-to-the-creative-destruction-that-fuels-economic-prosperity\/\" target=\"_blank\">only 12 percent of The Fortune 500 companies<\/a> from 1955 still exist in 2017.\n<li>Catalonia is not alone. Two prosperous northern regions <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/10\/20\/two-regions-vote-on-autonomy-from-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">are seeking more autonomy<\/a> from Italy. (But then, Italy&#8217;s never quite been a country in the way we tend to think of country.)\n<li>Holy cats. I had no idea that product reviewing was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3065928\/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars\" target=\"_blank\">either that lucrative<\/a> or that dirty a business. (Via Adam in comments)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/21\/weekend-links-81\/\">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":[6,8,18,19,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518","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=33518"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33529,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions\/33529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}