{"id":3468,"date":"2010-12-20T03:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2010-12-20T03:44:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T10:44:25","slug":"monday-miscellany-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/monday-miscellany-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I recently turned in a <i>S.W.A.T<\/i> article about hapless small business people who got entrapped into (allegedly and unknowingly) bribing officials of an Unnamed African Nation. They&#8217;re all facing ruin and prison time. So. Halliburton has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allgov.com\/US_and_the_World\/ViewNews\/Halliburton_Pays_Nigeria_250_Million_Dollars_to_Drop_Charges_against_Dick_Cheney_101219\" target=\"_blank\">paid $250 million to Nigerian officials<\/a> to get charges dropped against Dick Cheney. Okay, FBI, where are you when <i>serious<\/i> bribery is going down???\n<li>The really sad thing is that the <i>current<\/i> article I&#8217;m working on for that &#8216;zine covers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sohojournal.com\/content\/da-vance-announces-major-investigation-illegal-knives-new-york\" target=\"_blank\">exactly the same sort of shakedown and payoff<\/a> being committed by a corrupt government (but I repeat myself) right here in the U.S.\n<li>Before we leave Africa: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/19\/world\/africa\/19zimbabwe.html?_r=2&#038;src=twrhp\" target=\"_blank\">Bartering for medical care<\/a> in post-inflation Zimbabwe. (<i>NY Times<\/i> subscription link)\n<li>Back in the USSA (<i>over<\/i> it, anyhow): A total lunar eclipse. On the winter solstice. First such thing in nearly 400 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/blogs\/news\/story\/43212\/rare-total-lunar-eclipse-for-t.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Hope your viewing conditions are good.<\/a> If not, no worries. You only have to wait 84 years for the next solstice eclipse.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html\" target=\"_blank\">Your iPhone apps are watching you.<\/a> (This one&#8217;s for you, S.)\n<li>I don&#8217;t necessary agree with Damian Kulash. But the OK Go genius always <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703727804576017592259031536.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">has interesting things to say<\/a> about how artists can survive and thrive in the digital world.\n<li>Store owner squashes not one, not two, but <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40713870\/ns\/us_news-crime_and_courts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>three<\/i> human vermin<\/a>.\n<li>Seventy-seven percent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/december_2010\/most_tea_party_members_think_those_they_elected_won_t_sell_out_others_aren_t_so_sure\" target=\"_blank\">of Tea Party voters<\/a> are just waiting for somebody to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.\n<li> Women of A Certain Age: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wendy-dennis\/party-of-one_b_796277.html\" target=\"_blank\">You will surely get the truth of this one.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Holy puppy dogs. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2010\/12\/14\/the-hallelujah-chorus-from-a-flash-mob\/\" target=\"_blank\">amazing video Dave Duffy posted<\/a> the other day just about made me cry for the beauty of it. Then, when I googled around for more on that glorious event, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeminorityreport.com\/2010\/11\/awesome-pop-up-hallelujah-chorus-at.html\" target=\"_blank\">a much bigger, though by no means better<\/a> rendition. Oh man, would you not have loved to be in one of those places at one of those moments? Maybe we&#8217;ll have our chance yet. Turns out it&#8217;s all part of a movement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">bring random acts of culture<\/a> out of theaters and museums and into public places. Wonderful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently turned in a S.W.A.T article about hapless small business people who got entrapped into (allegedly and unknowingly) bribing officials of an Unnamed African Nation. They&#8217;re all facing ruin and prison time. So. Halliburton has now paid $250 million to Nigerian officials to get charges dropped against Dick Cheney. Okay, FBI, where are you when serious bribery is going down??? The really sad thing is that the current article I&#8217;m working on for that &#8216;zine covers exactly the same sort of shakedown and payoff being committed by a corrupt government (but I repeat myself) right here in the U.S.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/monday-miscellany-22\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[2,11,12,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","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\/3468","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=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}