{"id":3442,"date":"2010-12-17T03:22:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2010-12-17T03:22:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T10:22:39","slug":"friday-miscellany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/friday-miscellany-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First thing: Many thanks to K. and M. whose PayPal donations made my day. And &#8212; I don&#8217;t know whom to thank for this because Amazon isn&#8217;t yet telling &#8212; but I see apricots in my future. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve had too few apricots in my recent past &#8212; and one can never have too many of the little beauties in one&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Now on with the ranting, raving, giggling, snorting, news reporting, and other distractions of the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you hear the one about <a href=\"http:\/\/thetruthaboutguns.com\/2010\/12\/brad-kozak\/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-anti-gun-senator-shooting-an-intruder\/\" target=\"_blank\">the anti-gun legislator<\/a> who shot an intruder in his home? (Yes, <i>another<\/i> one of those hypocritical sucks &#8230;)\n<li>With WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in the news, we&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of threats involving the Espionage Act of 1917. You know that law was passed in part to silence and punish opposition to U.S. entry into &#8220;The War to End All Wars,&#8221; right? (See <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Espionage_Act_of_1917#Enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">some of the people it was used against<\/a>) Did you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/17521\/espionage_act_makes_felons_of_us_all\" target=\"_blank\">merely using an Internet-connected computer<\/a> (technically, at least) makes you a violator of the Espionage Act and a felon as long as there&#8217;s classified material available online?\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/15\/our-leaky-world\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s only the beginning<\/a> says Jesse Walker.\n<li>Blog reader and old <a href=\"https:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Militia<\/a> comrade Mac the Knife has opened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/macknight999\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Freedom Outlaw Brigade Merchandise Store<\/a> featuring goods and goodies for all the Agitators, Ghosts, and Freedom Moles out there. Thanks, Mac. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2277917\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> once when I was about 13. Among foolish, cheap, adolescent means of getting high, it&#8217;s a real downer. Complete waste of time. But the hysteri-o-media momentarily loves hating it. God bless Jack Shafer.\n<li>The TSA <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/loaded-gun-slips-past-tsa-screeners\/story?id=12412458\" target=\"_blank\">does it again<\/a>. And again and again. Unfortunately, in the present context, I&#8217;m thinking we&#8217;re not so much expected to laugh or groan over this as we are to shout, &#8220;Oh please! Save us with your scanners and grope-downs!&#8221;\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/moslive\/article-1336571\/Terrorism-Can-really-stop-bomber-asking-Are-terrorist.html\" target=\"_blank\">another way to do it<\/a> &#8212; though don&#8217;t you think it still makes a lot more sense just to let armed passengers and vigilant airlines take care of would-be malefactors?\n<li>Finally, this seems to be the week for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/16\/opinion\/16kristof.html\" target=\"_blank\">heroic women<\/a>. (<i>NY Times<\/i> subscription link) If that link doesn&#8217;t work for you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glamour.com\/women-of-the-year\/2010\/dr-hawa-abdi-and-her-daughters\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s one<\/a> that tells <i>part<\/i> of the story, though not necessarily the best part.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thing: Many thanks to K. and M. whose PayPal donations made my day. And &#8212; I don&#8217;t know whom to thank for this because Amazon isn&#8217;t yet telling &#8212; but I see apricots in my future. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve had too few apricots in my recent past &#8212; and one can never have too many of the little beauties in one&#8217;s future. Now on with the ranting, raving, giggling, snorting, news reporting, and other distractions of the day: Did you hear the one about the anti-gun legislator who shot an intruder in his home? (Yes, another one of those hypocritical&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/friday-miscellany-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}