{"id":34603,"date":"2018-01-10T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34603"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:29:19","slug":"midweek-links-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/midweek-links-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Between the Equifax breach and the new tax law, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.credit.com\/2018\/01\/identity-theft-and-the-new-tax-bill-180689\/\" target=\"_blank\">this could be a bad year<\/a> for both fraudulent tax returns and IRS confusion.\n<li>In southern California they&#8217;re looking for victims in a weather-related mudslide. In Washington state, they&#8217;re watching <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2018\/01\/03\/rattlesnake-ridge-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">a potentially larger<\/a> landslide in the making. Local officials are pooh-poohing the most-feared impact; geologists and geophysicists are saying, &#8220;Close the damn freeway NOW and prepare for Yakima to flood.&#8221;\n<li>GetRichSlowly.org: Hopping off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/2018\/01\/10\/lifestyle-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\">hedonic treadmill<\/a>.\n<li>Forest Service cop <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/community-horrified-cops-kill-upstanding-unarmed-citizen-traveling-spiritual-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\">kills a classic &#8220;good citizen&#8221;<\/a> while he&#8217;s driving to a spiritual retreat. We have no idea why.\n<li>And a dumbass cop using his gun to smash a vehicle window <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2018\/01\/09\/montgomery-police-officer-uses-his-gun-to-smash-car-window-shooting-the-unarmed-driver-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoots the driver<\/a>. We also don&#8217;t know why, but we can be sure &#8220;procedures were followed.&#8221;\n<li>In the &#8220;questions you&#8217;ve always wanted to ask (but didn&#8217;t know you did)&#8221; department: can an arrow fired straight up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/can-an-arrow-fired-straight-up-fall-fast-enough-to-kill-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">fall fast enough to kill you<\/a>? The article is a geek&#8217;s answer. The last line is for the rest of us.\n<li>Why Mickey Mouse <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/01\/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push\/\" target=\"_blank\">might not get his copyright extended<\/a> this time around.\n<li>The Afghanistan War <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2018\/01\/war-afghanistan-sues-marvel-copyright-infringement-infinity-war-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">sues Marvel for copyright infringement<\/a> over its latest Avengers title, &#8220;Infinity War.&#8221; \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Why there&#8217;s no excuse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/why-theres-no-excuse-bad-special-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\">for bad special effects<\/a>, even in old movies.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dogrevolution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dogrevolution-450x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"444\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dogrevolution-450x444.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dogrevolution.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Between the Equifax breach and the new tax law, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.credit.com\/2018\/01\/identity-theft-and-the-new-tax-bill-180689\/\" target=\"_blank\">this could be a bad year<\/a> for both fraudulent tax returns and IRS confusion.\n<li>In southern California they&#8217;re looking for victims in a weather-related mudslide. In Washington state, they&#8217;re watching <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2018\/01\/03\/rattlesnake-ridge-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">a potentially larger<\/a> landslide in the making. Local officials are pooh-poohing the potential impact; geologists and geophysicists are saying, &#8220;Close the damn freeway NOW and prepare for Yakima to flood.&#8221;\n<li>GetRichSlowly.org: Hopping off the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/2018\/01\/10\/lifestyle-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\">hedonic treadmill<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/midweek-links-67\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[4,11,12,13,16,19,20,23,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603","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=34603"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34629,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34603\/revisions\/34629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}