{"id":34224,"date":"2017-12-10T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34224"},"modified":"2017-12-11T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:42:20","slug":"weekend-links-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/weekend-links-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We rural Americans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2017\/11\/msnbcs-joy-ann-reid-attacks-rural-americans-minority-core-threat-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">a threat to democracy<a\/>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/454504\/police-murder-daniel-shaver\" target=\"_blank\">The police murder of Daniel Shaver<\/a>. (It&#8217;s interesting, the places that outrage over this is turning up.)\n<li>You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/danielmemorialfund\" target=\"_blank\">donate to help Shaver&#8217;s family<\/a>. He was a husband and father of small children.\n<li>It seems lately that every time I mention technology, I&#8217;m also talking about a violation of privacy. Here&#8217;s something better: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/12\/10\/the-flying-eye-and-you-and-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">a fully contained eye hospital<\/a> on an airplane.\n<li>And here, for the benefit of privacy-aware people who still like to have the latest tech gadgets is a <a href=\"https:\/\/advocacy.mozilla.org\/en-US\/privacynotincluded\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas gift guide<\/a> that includes what type of spying popular devices can and can&#8217;t do. (H\/T BD) And here are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/6-gadgets-not-to-buy-in-2018-2017-12-09\" target=\"_blank\">six gadgets NOT to buy<\/a> in the near future.\n<li>But heaven forbid you should use Christmastime as an excuse to perform any dastardly deeds <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2017\/12\/09\/atlanta-latest-city-to-target-good-samar\" target=\"_blank\">like feeding the homeless<\/a>.\n<li>The impeccably liberal Frank Bruni says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/villifying-white-men.html\" target=\"_blank\">calling whiteness an abomination<\/a> is, among other things, bad politics.\n<li>Whether Bitcoin is in a bubble, time will tell. But news has already revealed that many mainstream economists &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/alan-greenspan-bitcoin-stephen-roach\" target=\"_blanK\">now including Alan Greenspan<\/a> &#8212; simply don&#8217;t grok the nature of non-governmental money.\n<li>CFPB empolyees: You&#8217;re not Dumbledore&#8217;s Army. You&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/12\/08\/cfpb-employees-youre-not-dumbledores-army-youre-umbridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delores Umbridge<\/a>.\n<li>The year of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/08\/the-year-of-the-headless-liberal-chicken\/\" target=\"_blank\">headless liberal chicken<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a>)\n<li>The Oatmeal on <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/receive_present\" target=\"_blank\">how to receive a crappy Christmas present<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>We rural Americans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2017\/11\/msnbcs-joy-ann-reid-attacks-rural-americans-minority-core-threat-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">a threat to democracy<a\/>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/454504\/police-murder-daniel-shaver\" target=\"_blank\">The police murder of Daniel Shaver<\/a>. (It&#8217;s interesting, the places that outrage over this is turning up.)\n<li>You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/danielmemorialfund\" target=\"_blank\">donate to help Shaver&#8217;s family<\/a>. He was a husband and father of small children.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/weekend-links-86\/\">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":[6,7,11,16,19,20,23,25,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224","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=34224"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34262,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions\/34262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}