{"id":36639,"date":"2018-05-16T07:15:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36639"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:15:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:15:44","slug":"midweek-links-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/midweek-links-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Latest &#8220;progressive&#8221; intellectual psychobabble: You <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t have a right to believe<\/a> whatever you want. (How the Thought Police are going to stop you is a question for another day.)\n<li>Facebook, Google, Twitter, and something called Brightcloud <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/05\/16\/the-meek-shall-inherit-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">may believe they have the answer<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/how-location-api-allows-cops-to-figure.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking you<\/a> without a warrant. (H\/T JB)\n<li>Seattle passed the dreaded head tax. IBD explains how the city is foolishly attempting to solve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/seattle-head-tax-amazon-starbucks-homeless-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\">a problem of its own creation<\/a>. (Are we surprised?)\n<li>The war on Airbnb is a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/05\/15\/the-war-on-airbnb-is-all-about-slamming-the-little-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\">war on the little guy<\/a>.\n<li>Teen goes to prison <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/man-sentenced-shooting-cop-no-knock-raid-over-weed\/\" target=\"_blank\">for shooting at home invaders<\/a>. (Three guesses as to who employed the raiders.)\n<li>Two tributes to Tom Wolfe, the dazzling wordsmith and cultural observer who died this week at 88: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/05\/16\/tom-wolfe-americas-carnival-barker\/\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s carnival barker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/remembering-tom-wolfe-conservative-chronicler\/\" target=\"_blank\">gentleman heretic<\/a>.\n<li>The young Turks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-43981745\" target=\"_blank\">rejecting Islam<\/a>. No clue as to how widespread this is.\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Today is the midpoint of the very last fundraiser I ever intend to hold. If you enjoy this blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/the-final-fundraiser-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\">please say it with <del datetime=\"2018-05-16T14:08:52+00:00\">flowers<\/del> cash, Bitcoin, or other stores of value.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Latest &#8220;progressive&#8221; intellectual psychobabble: You <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t have a right to believe<\/a> whatever you want. (How the Thought Police are going to stop you is a question for another day.)\n<li>Facebook, Google, Twitter, and something called Brightcloud <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/05\/16\/the-meek-shall-inherit-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">may believe they have the answer<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/how-location-api-allows-cops-to-figure.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking you<\/a> without a warrant. (H\/T JB)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/midweek-links-78\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,7,11,12,18,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/36639","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=36639"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36649,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions\/36649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}