{"id":34315,"date":"2017-12-15T06:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34315"},"modified":"2017-12-15T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:52:08","slug":"friday-links-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/friday-links-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Now that&#8217;s scary. But instructive. The difference between a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blameitonthevoices.com\/2017\/12\/the-difference-between-fire-starting-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">fire starting in a dry Christmas tree<\/a> and a watered one.\n<li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/why-glock-dominates-the-handgun-market-better-sig-sauer-23487\" target=\"_blank\">Glock dominates<\/a> the handgun market.\n<li>Feds want to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/12\/feds-moving-quickly-to-cash-in-on-seized-bitcoin-now-worth-8-4-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">cash in on seized Bitcoin<\/a> really fast for fear it will lose value. But noooooo, of course they don&#8217;t seize assets for the money; it&#8217;s to deter crime and punish criminals. We all know that.\n<li>China is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/meghara\/china-is-quietly-collecting-dna-samples-from-millions-of\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;vacuuming up&#8221; DNA samples, iris scans, fingerprints<\/a> and more from millions in its western (Uighur\/Muslim) region. Doing it under the guise of free medical exams. It always begins with the vulnerable and unpopular.\n<li>Tracking you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/tracked-gps-off-822865\" target=\"_blank\">without GPS<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/454680\/bryan-caplans-case-against-education-persuasive\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Too many Americans<\/a> are going to college.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2017\/12\/14\/how-using-eminent-domain-to-seize-land-f\" target=\"_blank\">Unjust land seizures<\/a> for the sake of the border wall\/fence. (Not just a Trump thing.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/12\/15\/trapping-the-lonely\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trapping the lonely<\/a>. Dangerous pedophile? Or desperately sad misfit looking for love? Either way, he got screwed in a different sense than he indended &#8212; by a &#8220;15-year-old boy&#8221; who didn&#8217;t exist.\n<li>No way of verifying whether this is true, but it makes a <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/4256261\/construction-workers-deal-swift-justice-to-entitled-woman-after-she-refuses-to-move-her-car\" target=\"_blank\">plausible and satisfying story<\/a> of everyday justice.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Now that&#8217;s scary. But instructive. The difference between a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blameitonthevoices.com\/2017\/12\/the-difference-between-fire-starting-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">fire starting in a dry Christmas tree<\/a> and a watered one.\n<li>Why <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/why-glock-dominates-the-handgun-market-better-sig-sauer-23487\" target=\"_blank\">Glock dominates<\/a> the handgun market.\n<li>Feds want to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/12\/feds-moving-quickly-to-cash-in-on-seized-bitcoin-now-worth-8-4-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">cash in on seized Bitcoin<\/a> really fast for fear it will lose value. But noooooo, of course they don&#8217;t seize assets for the money; it&#8217;s to deter crime and punish criminals. We all know that.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/friday-links-96\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[11,12,19,20,23,27,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315","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=34315"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34329,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315\/revisions\/34329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}