{"id":35475,"date":"2018-03-04T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35475"},"modified":"2018-03-04T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:18:20","slug":"weekend-links-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/04\/weekend-links-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>David B. Kopel begins a series on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/03\/02\/history-of-the-assault-weapon-hoax\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; hoax<\/a>.\n<li>Maggie McNeill on <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/02\/reclaiming-liberal\/\" target=\"_blank\">reclaiming the term &#8220;liberal.&#8221;<\/a> (Via Myself in comments)\n<li>The question isn&#8217;t whether the post-Parkland children&#8217;s crusade is astroturf. Of course it is. The question is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/01\/take-two-weeks-truth-emerge-parkland-students-astroturfing\/\" target=\"_blank\">why did it take two weeks<\/a> for the media to notice and report that the entire business was being stage-managed by the usual suspects?\n<li>This &#8220;news&#8221; is more than three years old now. But if you&#8217;re a student of civilized resistance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocalapost.com\/entire-county-board-arrested-following-citizens-arrest-by-2-military-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s pretty good, anyhow<\/a>. (H\/T DB)\n<li>Remember Google censoring gun-related shopping searches? Well &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/google-tried-censoring-gun-shopping-searches-it-backfired\/article\/2650230\" target=\"_blank\">oopsie on the tech geniuses<\/a> (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>)\n<li>Neurologist Dr. Roger Bannister has died, age 88. That name doesn&#8217;t mean anything to you? Then how about Roger Bannister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2018\/03\/04\/roger-bannister-dies\/393123002\/\" target=\"_blank\">first man to break the four-minute mile<\/a>? The obit has a wonderful account of that.\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2018\/03\/old\/\" target=\"_blank\">truth about getting old<\/a>. Which, oddly enough, seems to be mostly from the perspective of thirtysomethings.\n<li>Merry Christmas. Okay, I know it&#8217;s too late (or way too early) for this. But <a href=\"https:\/\/sadanduseless.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/animation5.gif\" target=\"_blank\">it was too hilarious<\/a> to pass up.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dogopinion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dogopinion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"697\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dogopinion.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dogopinion-400x450.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>David B. Kopel begins a series on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/03\/02\/history-of-the-assault-weapon-hoax\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; hoax<\/a>.\n<li>Maggie McNeill on <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/02\/reclaiming-liberal\/\" target=\"_blank\">reclaiming the term &#8220;liberal.&#8221;<\/a> (Via Myself in comments)\n<li>The question isn&#8217;t whether the post-Parkland children&#8217;s crusade is astroturf. Of course it is. The question is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/01\/take-two-weeks-truth-emerge-parkland-students-astroturfing\/\" target=\"_blank\">why did it take two weeks<\/a> for the media to notice and report that the entire business was being stage-managed by the usual suspects?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/04\/weekend-links-93\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[8,12,16,18,19,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35475","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=35475"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35487,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35475\/revisions\/35487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}