{"id":33983,"date":"2017-11-22T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33983"},"modified":"2017-11-22T06:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:44:45","slug":"midweek-links-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/midweek-links-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<Li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickhenrysociety.com\/death-critical-thinking-movement-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The death of critical thinking<\/a> in the freedom movement, part II. Kit Perez is on a roll.<\/p>\n<li>Among all the standard obits for &#8217;70s teen idol David Cassidy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/11\/21\/im-sorry-david-cassidy-you-became-obsession\/887479001\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one&#8217;s a little different<\/a>. If you were ever in the seventh grade, you&#8217;ll understand.\n<li>David Kopel writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/11\/21\/the-american-indian-foundation-of-american-gun-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">about the American Indian origins<\/a> of U.S. gun culture.\n<li>Pennsylvania couple <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/pennsylvania-couple-sues-drug-warriors-w\" target=\"_blank\">sues drug warriors<\/a> (including the officious agent of their insurance company) for mistaking their garden flowers for pot.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/20\/opinion\/how-evil-is-tech.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How evil is tech?&#8221;<\/a>, David Brooks asks. No more evil than guns, of course. But being used for far worse purposes.\n<li>You think you did enough by turning off geolocation on your Android smartphone? <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1131515\/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think again.<\/a> (After this article appeared, Google said they were stopping that particular aspect of their eternal snooping.)\n<li>Well, if that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/environment\/national-parks-fee-hike-delivers-little-help-lots-of-blowback\/\" target=\"_blank\">near-tripling of national park fees<\/a> at peak season won&#8217;t even take care of 1% of the needs its supposed to cover, what <em>will<\/em> it do (other than keep the hoi palloi out)?\n<li>Speaking of keeping out the non-elite, socially conscious lefties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/268430\/hotel-leftist-hell-daniel-greenfield\" target=\"_blank\">will soon have their own luxury hotel chain<\/a> so they won&#8217;t have to sleep near the rest of us. (I foresee bankruptcy and civil rights suits)\n<li>Dogs who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/11\/tasty-bees\/\" target=\"_blank\">tried to eat bees<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><Li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickhenrysociety.com\/death-critical-thinking-movement-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The death of critical thinking<\/a> in the freedom movement, part II. Kit Perez is on a roll.<\/p>\n<li>Among all the standard obits for &#8217;70s teen idol David Cassidy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/11\/21\/im-sorry-david-cassidy-you-became-obsession\/887479001\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one&#8217;s a little different<\/a>. If you were ever in the seventh grade, you&#8217;ll understand.\n<li>David Kopel writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/11\/21\/the-american-indian-foundation-of-american-gun-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">about the American Indian origins<\/a> of U.S. gun culture.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/midweek-links-65\/\">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":[6,7,8,10,12,18,19,23,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-gardening-heaven-forbid","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","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\/33983","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=33983"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33993,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions\/33993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}