{"id":35721,"date":"2018-03-23T02:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T09:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35721"},"modified":"2018-03-22T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T03:12:52","slug":"friday-links-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/friday-links-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>If I&#8217;d have had time to post yesterday (sorry), this would have been at the top of my list: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/21\/youtube-suspends-major-gun-manufacturer-bans-instructional-gun-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube shows its colors (again)<\/a> by banning a range of gun-related videos. (Tip o&#8217; hat to DB and others)\n<li>Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump or Cambridge Analytica, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/22\/hillary-clinton-not-donald-trump-or-camb\" target=\"_blank\">is gaslighting America<\/a>.\n<li>Yeah, and Cambridge Analytica is a red herring. Money quote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/03\/21\/its-time-to-break-up-facebook-217665\" target=\"_blank\">from the Obama camp<\/a>: &#8220;Facebook was &#8216;very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn\u2019t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.&#8217;\u201d\n<li>Zuckerberg finally speaks &#8212; and says <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/video\/zuckerberg-says-hes-open-government-regulating-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s open to government regulating F*c*b**k<\/a>.\n<li>But the answer to FB is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/379560-rivals-and-consumers-will-rein-in-facebook-not-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">rivals and consumers<\/a>, not regulation.\n<li>New York City considers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/nyc-considers-making-walking-and-smoking-illegal\" target=\"_blank\">making it illegal<\/a> to smoke while walking down the street. (H\/T SC)\n<li>But a Philadelphia DA promises reform &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/03\/20\/larry-krasner-philadelphia-da\/\" target=\"_blank\">and means it.<\/a>\n<li>Why can&#8217;t the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/20\/nicolas-sarkozy-police-custody-french-president-campaign-funding-libya\" target=\"_blank\">deal this quickly and firmly<\/a> with its corrupt politicians? Surely we can all name 10 or 12 celebrity pols who could be sharing a cell with Nicolas Sarkozy.\n<li>Remember Julianne Benzel, the California history teacher suspended for conducting a class debate on whether a walkout for a conservative cause (i.e. anti-abortion) would be as acceptable to a school as an anti-gun walkout? She <a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2018\/03\/20\/student-planning-abortion-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">inspired exactly that<\/a>. I have no idea whether Benzel is conservative, liberal, or other. She just wants students to <em>think<\/em>. (Per Dana in comments)\n<li>Gina Haspel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/gina-haspel-as-if-nuremberg-never-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\">As if Nuremberg never happened<\/a>. (A powerful statement not only against her nomination to head the CIA, but against the kind of depraved human being who tortures.)\n<li>Ata, the tiny &#8220;alien&#8221; mummy from Chile&#8217;s Atacama desert, turns out to be human, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/22\/science\/ata-mummy-alien-chile.html\" target=\"_blank\">but with her own strange story<\/a> to tell.\n<li>Heh. And here you thought border collies <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/2075656\/when-your-dog-helps-you-with-the-farm\" target=\"_blank\">were only good for herding sheep<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DogBedCartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DogBedCartoon-450x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"435\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DogBedCartoon-450x435.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DogBedCartoon-768x742.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DogBedCartoon.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>If I&#8217;d have had time to post yesterday (sorry), this would have been at the top of my list: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/21\/youtube-suspends-major-gun-manufacturer-bans-instructional-gun-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube shows its colors (again)<\/a> by banning a range of gun-related videos. (Tip o&#8217; hat to DB and others)\n<li>Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump or Cambridge Analytica, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/22\/hillary-clinton-not-donald-trump-or-camb\" target=\"_blank\">is gaslighting America<\/a>.\n<li>Yeah, and Cambridge Analytica is a red herring. Money quote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/03\/21\/its-time-to-break-up-facebook-217665\" target=\"_blank\">from the Obama camp<\/a>: &#8220;Facebook was &#8216;very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn\u2019t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.&#8217;\u201d\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/friday-links-105\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[6,7,8,9,12,13,16,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","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\/35721","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=35721"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35737,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35721\/revisions\/35737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}