{"id":37048,"date":"2018-06-04T01:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37048"},"modified":"2018-06-04T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:08:26","slug":"monday-links-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/monday-links-126\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The world is full of stupid and angry people, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/kevin-d-williamson\/soccer-player-jaelene-hinkle-is-protested-in-portland-for-declining-to-wear-an-lgbtq-jersey\" target=\"_blank\">most of them live in Portland<\/a>.&#8221; Another great opening line &#8212; and another great takedown of social-justice pecksniffery &#8212; from Kevin D. Williamson.\n<li>Don&#8217;t like hate speech? <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/counter-speech-offers-an-effective-remedy-for-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">resist it with free speech<\/a> says civil libertarian Nadine Strossen (stating what ought to be, but no longer is, obvious).\n<li>Ever wanted to know how to hire an &#8220;escort&#8221;? <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/05\/31\/what-to-know-before-you-pay-for-sex\" target\">Maggie McNeill tells all<\/a>. (Well, not quite all; she doesn&#8217;t get into prices.) This is part of <em>Reason&#8217;s<\/em> daring <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/05\/31\/when-youre-done-reading-this-i\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Burn After Reading&#8221; issue<\/a>.\n<li>Vermont passes the first-ever law <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/27\/vermont-passes-first-first-law-to-crack-down-on-data-brokers\/\" target=\"_blank\">cracking down on databrokers<\/a>. (Again, not the way it should be done; OTOH these information sellers are privacy-invading scum.)\n<li>Obama. Yes, the problem was he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/02\/opinion\/sunday\/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">was just too good for us<\/a> (or so he thought).\n<li>The HuffPost (owned by, of all things, Verizon) <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/298468\/\" target=\"_blank\">doxes a woman<\/a> and exposes her to harassment and threats for the crime of being retweeted by President Trump. Added: Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/06\/04\/huffpost-ruined-entire-family-one-persons-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\">link with more info<\/a> about the impact on her innocent family.)\n<li>He was just a dancin&#8217; and a backflippin&#8217; and a <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/03\/us\/dancing-fbi-agent-gun-discharge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">shootin&#8217; up the bar<\/a>. No problem, though, &#8217;cause he&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/06\/04\/short-take-a-moron-and-his-gun-are-soon-parted\/\" target=\"_blank\">highly trained FBI agent<\/a> so it must be okay. (Per jc2k in comments)\n<li>The great Wendy McElroy on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wendy-mcelroy-crypto-and-the-impossibility-of-knowledge-in-planning\/\" target=\"_blank\">cryptocoin and catallaxy<\/a>. (No, I&#8217;d never heard of that word, either.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62700-why-spend-time-doing-nothing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why you should spend time doing nothing<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>You might have to think about this one for a minute:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-will-take-over-the-world-650x626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-will-take-over-the-world-650x626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"626\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-will-take-over-the-world-650x626.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-will-take-over-the-world-650x626-450x433.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>&#8220;The world is full of stupid and angry people, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/kevin-d-williamson\/soccer-player-jaelene-hinkle-is-protested-in-portland-for-declining-to-wear-an-lgbtq-jersey\" target=\"_blank\">most of them live in Portland<\/a>.&#8221; Another great opening line &#8212; and another great takedown of social-justice pecksniffery &#8212; from Kevin D. Williamson.\n<li>Don&#8217;t like hate speech? <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/counter-speech-offers-an-effective-remedy-for-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">resist it with free speech<\/a> says civil libertarian Nadine Strossen (stating what ought to be, but no longer is, obvious).\n<li>Ever wanted to know how to hire an &#8220;escort&#8221;? <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/05\/31\/what-to-know-before-you-pay-for-sex\" target\">Maggie McNeill tells all<\/a>. (Well, not quite all; she doesn&#8217;t get into prices.) This is part of <em>Reason&#8217;s<\/em> daring <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/05\/31\/when-youre-done-reading-this-i\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Burn After Reading&#8221; issue<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/monday-links-126\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[6,7,9,11,16,18,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/37048","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=37048"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37066,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37048\/revisions\/37066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}