{"id":34424,"date":"2017-12-29T04:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T12:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34424"},"modified":"2017-12-29T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:37:30","slug":"friday-links-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/friday-links-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Going backwards. Don&#8217;t imprison people because they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/opinion\/sessions-says-to-courts-go-ahead-jail-people-because-theyre-poor.html\" target=\"_blank\">too poor to pay fines<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;The slope is, in fact, slippery,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/454968\/masterpiece-cakeshop-slippery-slope-anti-discrimination-law\" target=\"_blank\">says Kevin D. Williamson<\/a>, as he gives a fascinating history of the laws and court edicts that led to Masterpiece Cakeshop.\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/12\/license-expired-the-ars-technica-2018-deathwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica deathwatch<\/a> for 2018.\n<li>Oh, Seattle. It appears the more &#8220;progressive&#8221; the city, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/12\/29\/discretion-and-discrimination-in-seattle\/\" target=\"_blank\">more slippery the slope gets<\/a>.\n<li>Idiot Twitter professor leaves his prestigious university job, because &#8220;persecution&#8221; and not because his twits were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/28\/us\/drexel-university-professor-resigns\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">uber racist, cruel ignorant trash<\/a>.\n<li>Why Republicans need to deport themselves from D.C. <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/12\/28\/republicans-need-self-deport-washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting article<\/a>, though IMHO it mistakes the symptoms for the cause of the disease.\n<li>Brad writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?item.8552.2\" target=\"_blank\">in praise of the humble hardware store<\/a> and the freedom that makes it possible. To which I shout a big, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;\n<li>In yet another classic &#8220;dumb criminal&#8221; move, teenagers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/12\/29\/th\/989597001\/\" target=\"_blank\">steal jewelry<\/a> from a department store then flag down cops because it&#8217;s too cold outside in the middle of the night.\n<li>Flash fiction: <a href=\"https:\/\/365tomorrows.com\/2017\/12\/28\/term-limits\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Term Limits,&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/gate-spyglass.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MJR<\/a>)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/61287-new-book-asks-does-it-fart.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Does it fart?&#8221;<\/a> A new book answers the question you always wanted to know about snakes, cockroaches, and other critters. (Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Does-Fart-Definitive-Animal-Flatulence\/dp\/1786488264\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">has it here<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Going backwards. Don&#8217;t imprison people because they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/opinion\/sessions-says-to-courts-go-ahead-jail-people-because-theyre-poor.html\" target=\"_blank\">too poor to pay fines<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;The slope is, in fact, slippery,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/454968\/masterpiece-cakeshop-slippery-slope-anti-discrimination-law\" target=\"_blank\">says Kevin D. Williamson<\/a>, as he gives a fascinating history of the laws and court edicts that led to Masterpiece Cakeshop.\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/12\/license-expired-the-ars-technica-2018-deathwatch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica deathwatch<\/a> for 2018.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/friday-links-97\/\">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":[4,6,7,8,19,23,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34424","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=34424"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34437,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34424\/revisions\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}