{"id":34159,"date":"2017-12-06T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34159"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:36:51","slug":"wednesday-links-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/06\/wednesday-links-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Drones. They&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/12\/05\/drone-strikes-israel-us-military-isvis\/\" target=\"_blank\">getting so creepy<\/a> they&#8217;re grossing out data-visualization experts.\n<li>Mexican designers pointedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mexican-designers-trumps-border-wall-cost-2017-1\/#the-design-was-also-inspired-by-the-work-ofrenowned-mexican-architect-luis-barragn-who-is-known-for-his-blunt-stucco-walls-and-use-of-bright-colors-2\" target=\"_blank\">create Trump&#8217;s border wall<\/a>.\n<li>Confirmation and more detail on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/latest-news\/article188099994.html\" target=\"_blank\">horror story<\/a> of the Georgia cop who terrorized a man into beheading his own dog.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/6500-reasons-say-girl-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\">6,500 reasons<\/a> to say, &#8220;It&#8217;s a boy!&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;s a girl!&#8221;\n<li>Retired military bigwigs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oathkeepers.org\/retired-standing-army-brass-urge-congress-neuter-militia-infringements\/\" target=\"_blank\">join the Giffords gun-grabbing group<\/a> in wanting us disarmed &#8212; but only in non-specific ways that don&#8217;t violate the Second Amendment. Huh?\n<li>No, I seriously doubt that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/americas-hippest-city-is-vancouver-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\">hippest city in the U.S.<\/a> is Vancouver, Washington. Truly, seriously, adamantly doubt that.\n<li>Pelosi claims the tax bill is the worst legislation in history and that <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/05\/pelosi-suggests-california-republicans-leave-state-if-they-support-tax-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">anyone who favors it should leave California<\/a>. David Boaz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/worst-bill-history\" target=\"_blank\">differs ever so slightly<\/a> with that &#8220;worst bill&#8221; charge. Lordy, politics is getting idiotic.\n<li>A pair of good nooz: An Oregon state board agrees it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/index.ssf\/2017\/12\/state_board_concedes_it_violat.html\" target=\"_blank\">violated rights<\/a> in punishing engineers for calling themselves engineers (via jc2k in comments); and Wyoming legislators are livid over <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/06\/how-a-92k-traffic-stop-could-mean-the-end-of-the-road-for-wyomings-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\">tricks that aim to get around bans on highway robbery<\/a>.\n<li>You wanna feel really, really old? Christine Keeler, the #1 sexy &#8220;party girl&#8221; of Britain&#8217;s 1960s John Profumo scandal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5148841\/Christine-Keeler-dies-aged-75.html\" target=\"_blank\">has died, age 75<\/a>. To feel even worse, check out the photo of her taken a few years ago.\n<li>OTOH, when challenged to name a &#8220;badder b*tch than Taylor Swift,&#8221; people with long memories <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/4179461\/girl-challenges-people-to-name-a-badder-bitch-than-taylor-swift-and-the-internet-delivers\" target=\"_blank\">came up with some terrific answers<\/a>.\n<li>This man paints beautiful landscapes <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/518857\/77-year-old-artist-saves-money-art-supplies-painting-microsoft-excel\" target=\"_blank\">using the graph function<\/a> in Microsoft Excel.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Drones. They&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/12\/05\/drone-strikes-israel-us-military-isvis\/\" target=\"_blank\">getting so creepy<\/a> they&#8217;re grossing out data-visualization experts.\n<li>Mexican designers pointedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mexican-designers-trumps-border-wall-cost-2017-1\/#the-design-was-also-inspired-by-the-work-ofrenowned-mexican-architect-luis-barragn-who-is-known-for-his-blunt-stucco-walls-and-use-of-bright-colors-2\" target=\"_blank\">create Trump&#8217;s border wall<\/a>.\n<li>Confirmation and more detail on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/latest-news\/article188099994.html\" target=\"_blank\">horror story<\/a> of the Georgia cop who terrorized a man into beheading his own dog.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/06\/wednesday-links-52\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[2,6,8,9,12,18,19,20,23,25,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34159","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=34159"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34180,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34159\/revisions\/34180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}