{"id":34718,"date":"2018-01-17T07:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34718"},"modified":"2018-01-17T07:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:34:46","slug":"midweek-links-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/midweek-links-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We were worried about our rights when the IRS started using private bill collectors. Did we even consider that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-hiltzik-irs-collectors-20180116-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the poor IRS<\/a> might actually <em>lose money on the deal<\/em>?\n<li>Nissan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nissan-brain-wave-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants to read your mind<\/a>.\n<li>Richard Rahn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jan\/15\/immigration-and-rathole-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\">talks rationally about immigration<\/a> from sh*tholes (or ratholes or sh*thouses; the claims about Trump&#8217;s language are mutating) &#8212; and in the process includes three branches of my ancestry. I&#8217;m so proud.\n<li>Speaking of sh*tholers, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/14\/shitholers-of-the-world-are-making-ameri\" target=\"_blank\">some seem to do pretty well<\/a> when they arrive here.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/455453\/president-trump-undoes-obama-legacy-commonsense-nobama\" target=\"_blank\">Undoing Obama&#8217;s legacy<\/a>, piece by piece.\n<li>Jim Bovard wrote an article about the injustices in the Bundy and Weaver trials &#8212; and got a <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/enraged-readers-cheer-federal-killings-of-gun-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\">very scary reminder<\/a> of &#8230; well, how very scary, and ignorant of principle, the anti-gun left can be.\n<li>&#8220;I was denied service based on beliefs &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/i-was-denied-service-based-on-beliefs-and-i-m-okay-with-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">and I&#8217;m okay with that.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>The world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coolest-airline-paint-job-livery-world-2017-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">coolest airline liveries<\/a>. Some are truly gorgeous. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d want to fly on a plane featuring Mickey Mouse, though.\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not Ava. But &#8230; this is Ava. She&#8217;ll be 13 this year and she still does this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dogexcited.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dogexcited.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34726\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>We were worried about our rights when the IRS started using private bill collectors. Did we even consider that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-hiltzik-irs-collectors-20180116-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the poor IRS<\/a> might actually <em>lose money on the deal<\/em>?\n<li>Nissan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nissan-brain-wave-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants to read your mind<\/a>.\n<li>Richard Rahn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jan\/15\/immigration-and-rathole-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\">talks rationally about immigration<\/a> from sh*tholes (or ratholes or sh*thouses; the claims about Trump&#8217;s language are mutating) &#8212; and in the process includes three branches of my ancestry. I&#8217;m so proud.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/midweek-links-68\/\">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":[2,6,7,8,11,12,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/34718","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=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34729,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions\/34729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}