{"id":35741,"date":"2018-03-24T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35741"},"modified":"2018-03-24T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:08:37","slug":"weekend-links-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/24\/weekend-links-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/03\/citibank-stance-on-firearm-sales-presents-decision-for-gun-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\">dump your Citibank card<\/a>.\n<li>Nope. Mass shootings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2018\/03\/24\/france-isis-attack-hostage-police-officer\/455358002\/\" target=\"_blank\">never happen outside the U.S.<\/a>. Anybody who says otherwise must be some sort of raving gun nut.\n<li>Every once in a while, <em>Mother Jones<\/em> gets it (mostly) right: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2018\/03\/heres-the-real-reason-the-japanese-dont-buy-american-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">real reason the Japanese don&#8217;t buy American cars<\/a>.\n<li>Anonymous Seattle cop <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/934817\/seattle-cop-rips-gun-violence-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">rips mayor&#8217;s silly plan<\/a> against &#8220;gun violence.&#8221; &#8216;Cause you know, it&#8217;s apparently all about average Joes not properly storing their weapons; gang violence has nothing to do with it.\n<li>NFL owners, hoping to bribe players not to kneel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/22\/nfl-owners-hope-89-million-social-justice-package-\/\" target=\"_blank\">still don&#8217;t have a clue<\/a>.\n<li>Spirit Airlines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/22\/spirit-airlines-apologizes-parkland-survivor-kyle-\/\" target=\"_blank\">apologizes for flight attendant<\/a> forcing her anti-gun rant on passengers (one of whom was a pro-gun Parkland student). (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Codrea<\/a>)\n<li>Venezuela: We&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldtelegraph.com\/venezuela-experiencing-free-fall\" target=\"_blank\">mellllllting!<\/a>\n<li>French driver faces jail time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.fr\/20180322\/french-motorist-gets-jail-time-for-giving-the-finger-to-speed-cameras\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;disrespecting&#8221; a speed camera<\/a>. Hint: He disrespected in the classic way, which I now learn the French call the &#8220;digit of honor.&#8221; Must adopt that phrase.\n<li>A study, FWIW, has confirmed the illusive supposition: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/medicine\/nutrition-medicine\/cutting-calories-delays-ageing-new-study-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">calorie reduction delays aging<\/a>.\n<li>Duffel Blog: Trump replaces brilliant military strategist with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2018\/03\/trump-replaces-brilliant-military-strategist-dude-wearing-creepy-mustache\/\" target=\"_blank\">some dude wearing a creepy mustache<\/a>. (And the mustache isn&#8217;t the only creepy thing about him.)\n<li>Arizona woman invites Cleveland man and his newborn daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2705\/Woman-Lets-Stranded-Dad-And-His-Newborn-Baby-Stay-With-Her-After-Airline-Denies-Them\" target=\"_blank\">to stay in her home<\/a> after airline says they can&#8217;t fly.\n<li>One couple&#8217;s journey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-life-and-religion\/257811\/mormon-lost-and-found\" target=\"_blank\">from Mormonism to Judiasm<\/a> &#8212; which apparently aren&#8217;t as far apart as most of us would imagine.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/03\/citibank-stance-on-firearm-sales-presents-decision-for-gun-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\">dump your Citibank card<\/a>.\n<li>Nope. Mass shootings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2018\/03\/24\/france-isis-attack-hostage-police-officer\/455358002\/\" target=\"_blank\">never happen outside the U.S.<\/a>. Anybody who says otherwise must be some sort of raving gun nut.\n<li>Every once in a while, <em>Mother Jones<\/em> gets it (mostly) right: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2018\/03\/heres-the-real-reason-the-japanese-dont-buy-american-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">real reason the Japanese don&#8217;t buy American cars<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/24\/weekend-links-95\/\">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":[7,12,13,19,20,23,29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-religion","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\/35741","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=35741"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35756,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35741\/revisions\/35756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}