{"id":36305,"date":"2018-04-29T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36305"},"modified":"2018-04-29T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T18:49:36","slug":"weekend-links-too-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/29\/weekend-links-too-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links too"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wow. Last night&#8217;s White House Correspondents Dinner must have been the fiasco of fiascos. Even the NYT and CNN are <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/04\/29\/reporters-slam-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">decrying the nasty attacks<\/a> comedian Michelle Wolf made against Trump (who wasn&#8217;t there) and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who was).\n<li>The inimitable Scott Greenfield <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/04\/29\/short-take-under-the-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\">slams it to those regressive fools<\/a> who are cutting their own (and civilization&#8217;s) throat by dismissing free speech as nothing but a right-wing dog whistle.\n<li>Two on Alfie Evans: where is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/baby-alfie-jimmy-kimmel-silent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s voice<\/a> now; and Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2018\/04\/29\/boy-were-we-ever-right-to-declare-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Berlin Wall<\/a>.\n<li>Proposed new employee tax in Seattle <a href=\"http:\/\/q13fox.com\/2018\/04\/27\/safeway-says-believe-us-seattle-employee-tax-will-impact-customers\/\" target=\"_blank\">will close neighborhood food markets<\/a>, say Safeway and others. (And that&#8217;s just the tip of that particular iceberg.)\n<li>A trash-hauling company (worse, one owned by a self-proclaimed free-market supporter and politician) sends the sheriff out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/04\/28\/sheriff-inventory-familys-property-over-160-trash-bill\/561005002\/\" target=\"_blank\">to inventory all of a family&#8217;s possessions<\/a> for sale &#8212; over an unpaid $160 bill.\n<li>Wisconsin&#8217;s goofy laws protecting state citizens from artisanal butter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/wisconsins-butter-scheme-udderly-cheesy\" target=\"_blank\">are finally getting a legal challenge<\/a>. Unfortunately the big guns (Cato and Pacific Legal Foundation) are driven to use the infamous interstate commerce clause.\n<li><em>Hair<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/29\/theater\/hair-50-years-later-readers-tell-us-when-they-let-the-sunshine-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">debuted on Broadway<\/a> 50 years ago today.\n<li>With tongue firmly in cheek (one hopes), Robin Hanson says forget about income redistribution; we must address the far more important problem of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2018\/04\/two-types-of-envy.html\" target=\"_blank\">sex redistribution<\/a>.\n<li>Six realities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-2567-6-realities-growing-up-expecting-apocalypse.html\" target=\"_blank\">growing up expecting the apocalypse<\/a>.\n<li>This Japanese company <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/5473285\/this-japanese-company-pays-its-employees-for-every-cat-they-rescue\" target=\"_blank\">pays employees for rescuing cats<\/a> and creates a happier workplace in the process.\n<li>Border collies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/stories\/border-collies-spread-tree-seeds-chile-forest\" target=\"_blank\">help re-seed a burned forest<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Wow. Last night&#8217;s White House Correspondents Dinner must have been the fiasco of fiascos. Even the NYT and CNN are <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/04\/29\/reporters-slam-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">decrying the nasty attacks<\/a> comedian Michelle Wolf made against Trump (who wasn&#8217;t there) and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who was).\n<li>The inimitable Scott Greenfield <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/04\/29\/short-take-under-the-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\">slams it to those regressive fools<\/a> who are cutting their own (and civilization&#8217;s) throat by dismissing free speech as nothing but a right-wing dog whistle.\n<li>Two on Alfie Evans: where is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/baby-alfie-jimmy-kimmel-silent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s voice<\/a> now; and Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2018\/04\/29\/boy-were-we-ever-right-to-declare-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Berlin Wall<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/29\/weekend-links-too-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend links too<\/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":[2,8,11,13,16,19,20,23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305","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=36305"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36318,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36305\/revisions\/36318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}