{"id":37108,"date":"2018-06-07T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T08:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37108"},"modified":"2018-06-07T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:45:06","slug":"thursday-links-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/07\/thursday-links-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>David Hogg&#8217;s family home got SWATted. This shouldn&#8217;t happen to anybody, ever. But plenty of gun-rights activists are noting that <a href=\"http:\/\/victorygirlsblog.com\/david-hoggs-reaction-to-his-home-being-swatted-is-very-odd-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hogg&#8217;s reaction is not at all normal<\/a> for an alleged SWATting victim.\n<li>The financial scandal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/may\/29\/the-financial-scandal-no-one-is-talking-about-big-four-accountancy-firms\" target=\"_blank\">nobody&#8217;s talking about<\/a>. (Accounting firms getting cozy and fabulously rich with their clients.)\n<li>Poor, poor Paul Manafort. He&#8217;s really just not very good at this whole <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/paul-manafort-learns-that-encrypting-messages-doesnt-ma-1826561511\" target=\"_blank\">understanding encryption business<\/a>. (A lesson here for all users of WhatsApp and other pre-packaged &#8220;secure&#8221; communications offerings.)\n<li>Robert Tracinski has a deeper analysis of the <em>Masterpiece Cakeshop<\/em> decision: the court wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/06\/05\/supreme-courts-masterpiece-majority-wants-kill-freedom-softly\/\" target=\"_blank\">kill freedom softly<\/a>.\n<li>Silicon Valley standards: It&#8217;s a bad-bad-bad thing to be a gun-rights activist (especially one who mentions the word &#8220;gender&#8221;); it&#8217;s perfectly okay <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyhangout.org\/2018\/05\/twitter-bans-gun-rights-activist-for-12-hours-welcomes-death-threats-against-her\/\" target=\"_blank\">to make death threats<\/a> against a gun-rights activist.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/03\/opinion\/why-we-need-religion.html\" target=\"_blank\">What religion gives us<\/a> that science can&#8217;t.\n<li>But science shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1292368\/columbia-and-yale-scientists-just-found-the-spiritual-part-of-our-brains\/\" target=\"_blank\">while spirituality is inborn<\/a>, it has no innate connection with religion. (The article presents this as a new finding; if anything, it&#8217;s just a confirmation of brain studies done 20 years or more ago.)\n<li>The best political joke to emerge from this week&#8217;s primaries: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/06\/06\/first-native-american-congresswoman-elizabeth-warren-joke\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Elizabeth Warren will be so mad!&#8221;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakadesuyo.com\/2018\/06\/harsh-truths\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four harsh truths<\/a> that can make us better people. The first is we&#8217;re all going to die.\n<li>Wait. You say Canadians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/06\/us\/politics\/war-of-1812-history-facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t burn down the White House<\/a>? Then why do they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVC677-YmfM\" target=\"_blank\">keep bragging about it<\/a>?\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday, a mountain goat fought off an eagle. Today &#8230; well, don&#8217;t get between a mama dog and her pup, even if you happen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2841\/Watch-This-Mother-Dog-Fight-Off-A-Leopard-That-Tries-To-Snatch-Her-Puppy\" target=\"_blank\">be a leopard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Bc23v8XvoF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>David Hogg&#8217;s family home got SWATted. This shouldn&#8217;t happen to anybody, ever. But plenty of gun-rights activists are noting that <a href=\"http:\/\/victorygirlsblog.com\/david-hoggs-reaction-to-his-home-being-swatted-is-very-odd-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hogg&#8217;s reaction is not at all normal<\/a> for an alleged SWATting victim.\n<li>The financial scandal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/may\/29\/the-financial-scandal-no-one-is-talking-about-big-four-accountancy-firms\" target=\"_blank\">nobody&#8217;s talking about<\/a>. (Accounting firms getting cozy and fabulously rich with their clients.)\n<li>Poor, poor Paul Manafort. He&#8217;s really just not very good at this whole <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/paul-manafort-learns-that-encrypting-messages-doesnt-ma-1826561511\" target=\"_blank\">understanding encryption business<\/a>. (A lesson here for all users of WhatsApp and other pre-packaged &#8220;secure&#8221; communications offerings.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/07\/thursday-links-89\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[6,7,8,12,16,18,19,20,23,25,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108","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=37108"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37130,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37108\/revisions\/37130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}