{"id":35084,"date":"2018-02-09T01:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35084"},"modified":"2018-02-08T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T02:55:32","slug":"midweek-links-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/midweek-links-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The (insouciantly charming) symbolism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/02\/the-symbolism-of-elon-musk-sending-a-car-into-space\/552479\/\" target=\"_blank\">launching a Tesla<\/a> into space. (And before anybody goes objecting to Elon Musk and his very existence, you might want to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/well-we-were-promised-flying-cars\/#comment-34686\" target=\"_blank\">comment by UnReconstructed<\/a>, who happens to be a real rocket scientist, over at Joel&#8217;s place.)\n<li>Commander Zero on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=4834\" target=\"_blank\">meeting folks<\/a>: a real-world example.\n<li>Oh, yeah. This is what the country needs (she says rolling her eyes): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump\" target=\"_blank\">ICE wants to become an intelligence (sic) agency<\/a>.\n<li>So much for transparency. The Office of Personnel Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/08\/20_billion_hidden_in_the_swamp_feds_redact_255000_salaries.html\" target=\"_blank\">hides 255,000 federal salaries<\/a> &#8212; and how many billions of dollars?\n<li>Seriously, Vatican? The country that&#8217;s been killing Christians and heading up its own state-run Catholic church <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/the-country-best-implementing-the-social\" target=\"_blank\">is the one that&#8217;s best implementing<\/a> your desired social program? Sure, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/08\/opinion\/pope-china-deal-vatican.html\" target=\"_blank\">political reasons you&#8217;re blarting such nonsense<\/a>. But aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2018\/02\/07\/will_the_vatican_abandon_catholics_in_china_110183.html\" target=\"_blank\">fears you&#8217;ll abandon<\/a> millions of Chinese Catholics, I think you&#8217;ve just demonstrated that you&#8217;re the same old abusive organization but now New! Improved! All leftist!\n<li>Did Obama really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/newlyreleased_strzokpage_lovebird_text_messages_potus_wants_to_know_everything_were_doing.html\" target=\"_blank\">want to know everything<\/a>? if so, we&#8217;ve got a scandal on our hands bigger than Watergate &#8212; IF the media will cover it.\n<li>The biohacker I linked the other day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/biopunks-are-pushing-the-limits-with-implants-and-diy-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">is hardly alone<\/a>. Apparently there&#8217;s an entire field of &#8220;biopunks&#8221; conducting homemade experiments both icky and intriguing. Interesting days for medicine&#8217;s <em>ancien regime<\/em>.\n<li>Looking for an off-the-beaten-path destination? Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/good-sht\/welcome-to-spanish-lapland-where-almost-nobody-lives\/83156\" target=\"_blank\">Spain&#8217;s Lapland<\/a>.\n<li>Release your inner animal with <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/530262\/these-photorealistic-ski-masks-let-your-inner-animal-come-out\" target=\"_blank\">photorealistic ski masks<\/a>.\n<li>Via jc2k in comments: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/bars\/news-bars\/2018\/02\/05\/three-years-in-the-making-the-worlds-first-dog-taphouse-is-finally-open-in-the-portland-area\/\" target=\"_blank\">world&#8217;s first taproom and adoption center<\/a> for dogs. I gotta visit this place!\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2018\/02\/library-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Librarians<\/a> with a sense of humor.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The (insouciantly charming) symbolism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/02\/the-symbolism-of-elon-musk-sending-a-car-into-space\/552479\/\" target=\"_blank\">launching a Tesla<\/a> into space. (And before anybody goes objecting to Elon Musk and his very existence, you might want to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/well-we-were-promised-flying-cars\/#comment-34686\" target=\"_blank\">comment by UnReconstructed<\/a>, who happens to be a real rocket scientist, over at Joel&#8217;s place.)\n<li>Commander Zero on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=4834\" target=\"_blank\">meeting folks<\/a>: a real-world example.\n<li>Oh, yeah. This is what the country needs (she says rolling her eyes): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump\" target=\"_blank\">ICE wants to become an intelligence (sic) agency<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/midweek-links-70\/\">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":[8,11,13,16,19,20,24,25,29,31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-offshore","category-poly-ticks","category-religion","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084","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=35084"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35100,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions\/35100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}