{"id":35524,"date":"2018-03-08T10:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35524"},"modified":"2018-03-08T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:23:48","slug":"thursday-links-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/08\/thursday-links-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Daylight saving time returns on Sunday. Be sure to &#038;^%$#ing uselessly adjust your ^%*(_&#038;%#ing clocks <em>again<\/em>. Sigh. But what if DST <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2017\/3\/10\/14883576\/daylight-saving-time-2018-begin-spring-forward\" target=\"_blank\">were in effect all year<\/a>?\n<li>A teacher in (no surprise) New Jersey <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/02\/high-school-teacher-suspended-parkland-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">is suspended from his job<\/a> for advocating arming school staff. One precious snowflake was so upset she had to be escorted from the classroom.\n<li>The DoJ is <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/07\/doj-releases-fast-and-furious-documents-obama-holder-gowdy\/\" target=\"_blank\">finally handing over<\/a> those Fast &#038; Furious documents after years of Obama-era stonewalling.\n<li>Washington state strives to find <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/7397080675bd4eda90cfc3fc78acc37d\/Discrimination-bill-among-efforts-on-Washington-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\">new ways of dealing with homelessness<\/a>. Some of them are alarming. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure when the term &#8220;soft tyranny&#8221; came into use; it&#8217;s kinda dumb. But the idea that you should <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/07\/reading-nutrition-studies-does-nothing-f\" target=\"_blank\">free yourself<\/a> from the soft tyranny of nutrition studies is pretty good.\n<li>Yes, if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/07\/if-youre-trying-to-ban-guns-the-least-you-can-do-is-learn-the-basics\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposing to ban guns<\/a> or gun features, you should, at minimum, understand what they are.\n<li>And gun crackdowns <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/377189-gun-crackdowns-have-already-led-to-too-many-federal-abuses\" target=\"_blank\">have already led to too many federal abuses<\/a>, as Jim Bovard points out.\n<li>Barbie has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/international-women-day-inspiring-role-models-barbie-dolls\/\" target=\"_blank\">17 new dolls<\/a> honoring women of achievement. Honoring or exploiting? YMMV; I think they&#8217;re cool and for the most part well chosen. (There&#8217;s no Ayn Rand Barbie, of course.)\n<li>But <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/careful-what-you-dream-of-lady\/\" target=\"_blank\">careful what you wish for<\/a>, you anti-gun women.\n<li>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2018\/03\/clever-street-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">weirdly fun street photographs<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Daylight saving time returns on Sunday. Be sure to &#038;^%$#ing uselessly adjust your ^%*(_&#038;%#ing clocks <em>again<\/em>. Sigh. But what if DST <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2017\/3\/10\/14883576\/daylight-saving-time-2018-begin-spring-forward\" target=\"_blank\">were in effect all year<\/a>?\n<li>A teacher in (no surprise) New Jersey <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/02\/high-school-teacher-suspended-parkland-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">is suspended from his job<\/a> for advocating arming school staff. One precious snowflake was so upset she had to be escorted from the classroom.\n<li>The DoJ is <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/07\/doj-releases-fast-and-furious-documents-obama-holder-gowdy\/\" target=\"_blank\">finally handing over<\/a> those Fast &#038; Furious documents after years of Obama-era stonewalling.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/08\/thursday-links-85\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[2,11,12,13,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35524","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=35524"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35538,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35524\/revisions\/35538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}