{"id":36580,"date":"2018-05-12T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36580"},"modified":"2018-05-12T19:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T02:07:57","slug":"weekend-links-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/12\/weekend-links-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The creepy goes up another notch. <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/yahoo-and-aol-can-now-read-your-emails-access-your-bank-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo and AOL are<\/a> &#8230; well, just read it. The headline is slightly overblown, but the reality is damnable enough.\n<li>Inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-05-10\/inside-the-brotherhood-of-pi-hole-ad-blockers\" target=\"_blank\">the brotherhood of ad blockers<\/a>. This is great!\n<li>Per jc2k in comments: Black gun-rights activist and founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Rakem Balogun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/11\/rakem-balogun-interview-black-identity-extremists-fbi-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">is arrested and financially ruined<\/a> for criticizing police.\n<li>The NRA <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/nra-sues-gov-cuomo-blacklisting\/\" target=\"_blank\">sues Cuomo<\/a> over blacklisting. Seems that in addition to what we&#8217;ve already heard NY has actually <em>fined companies<\/em> millions for their perfectly legal dealings with the NRA.\n<li>Yeah, yeah, we know it&#8217;s not a democracy. But whatever it is, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/civil-rights\/386972-washington-secrecy-is-creating-a-know-nothing-democracy\" target_\"blank\">all this secrecy and deception<\/a> from on high isn&#8217;t good for it. So sez Jim Bovard.\n<li>You can say many good things about Texas and freedom. But the state still remains in the grip of Reefer Madness. Now they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/05\/12\/texas-health-department-considers-cracki\" target=\"_blank\">trying to criminalize cannabidiol (CBD)<\/a>, the completely non-intoxicating component of pot often used for chronic pain or controlling seizures, which has been legal in all 50 states.\n<li>Let me get this straight. It&#8217;s okay for leftists to offend a conservative on campus, but if the conservative stands up and says her feelings were hurt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10883\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s intolerance and hate speech<\/a>, worthy of an official reprimand.\n<li>And your feelgood story for the day (courtesy of BD): A special man with special blood <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2018\/05\/11\/health\/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">helps save more than two million babies<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The creepy goes up another notch. <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/yahoo-and-aol-can-now-read-your-emails-access-your-bank-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo and AOL are<\/a> &#8230; well, just read it. The headline is slightly overblown, but the reality is damnable enough.\n<li>Inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-05-10\/inside-the-brotherhood-of-pi-hole-ad-blockers\" target=\"_blank\">the brotherhood of ad blockers<\/a>. This is great!\n<li>Per jc2k in comments: Black gun-rights activist and founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Rakem Balogun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/11\/rakem-balogun-interview-black-identity-extremists-fbi-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">is arrested and financially ruined<\/a> for criticizing police.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/12\/weekend-links-99\/\">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":[6,7,11,12,13,19,23,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","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\/36580","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=36580"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36593,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36580\/revisions\/36593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}