{"id":3572,"date":"2010-12-28T03:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2010-12-28T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:27:09","slug":"tuesday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/tuesday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-12083595\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The verdict that may shake Russia.&#8221;<\/a> I damn well hope so. The only thing this guy&#8217;s guilty of is challenging authority.\n<li>Hey, this might work &#8212; being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-27\/fed-s-free-money-lures-this-important-writer-commentary-by-kevin-hassett.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;too systemically important&#8221; to fail<\/a>. Worth a try, anyhow.\n<li>A word that&#8217;s been crying out to be invented: <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstreetpit.com\/48654-doug-kass-unveils-screwflation\" target=\"_blank\">screwflation<\/a>.\n<li>Juries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-marijuana-juries-20101225,0,2484761.story\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;re starting to rebel<\/a>. (The good news is from Ellendra in a recent comment section.)\n<li>Hm. In this economy, people are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/in-the-worst-economy-ever-gen-yers-are-quitting-their-jobs-with-nothing-else-lined-up-2010-12\" target=\"_blank\">still quitting their jobs with no new work lined up<\/a>. The article tsk tsks. But it kinda makes sense &#8212; considering <i>screwflation<\/i> and all.\n<li>What kind of &#8220;justice&#8221; system sends somebody to prison for years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/new_hampshire\/articles\/2010\/12\/25\/prison_term_for_native_son_draws_ire_of_nh_town\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">on a &#8220;he said\/she said&#8221;?<\/a> (And even worse when there&#8217;s ample reason to think the &#8220;she&#8221; in question is a liar). Oh. The kind of &#8220;justice&#8221; system that gets its knickers in a knot when the subject is firearms. Thank heaven for New Hampshire neighbors.\n<li>And you thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2010\/12\/26\/cables_portray_expanded_reach_of_dea_globally_and_politically\/\" target=\"_blank\">the DEA was merely an evil nuisance<\/a> when it came to drugs and freedom. Here&#8217;s a little mission creep for ya: They&#8217;re becoming an evil nuisance <i>just like the CIA<\/i>.\n<li>Those last two items were via <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalreview.news-digests.com\/todays-edition\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News<\/a> &#8212; which now has a new URL and a spiffy new look. It also has [UPDATE: most of] the funds it needed for this quarter &#8212; which I&#8217;m thinking might be thanks to many of you.\n<li>Some of you guys might have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Hyperbole-and-a-half+%28Hyperbole-And-A-Half%29\" target=\"_blank\">this hysterical dog story<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel&#8217;s blog<\/a> weeks ago. But since every animal person I know keeps going back to it and laughing their heads off all over again, I thought it was worth another link. Enjoy.\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Because tomorrow we get serious. It&#8217;s [drums of doom] New Years resolution time [\/drums of doom].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The verdict that may shake Russia.&#8221; I damn well hope so. The only thing this guy&#8217;s guilty of is challenging authority. Hey, this might work &#8212; being &#8220;too systemically important&#8221; to fail. Worth a try, anyhow. A word that&#8217;s been crying out to be invented: screwflation. Juries. They&#8217;re starting to rebel. (The good news is from Ellendra in a recent comment section.) Hm. In this economy, people are still quitting their jobs with no new work lined up. The article tsk tsks. But it kinda makes sense &#8212; considering screwflation and all. What kind of &#8220;justice&#8221; system sends somebody to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/tuesday-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday links<\/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":[8,11,12,19,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}