{"id":3741,"date":"2011-01-03T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2011-01-03T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T20:51:31","slug":"monday-miscellany-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/monday-miscellany-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Well, whaddayou know? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/02\/weekinreview\/02parkerpope.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Happy Marriage is the &#8216;Me&#8217; Marriage&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; not the ego-me, but the growing-me. (NY Times free subscription link)\n<li>You heard about the man facing five years in prison for reading his wife&#8217;s email. Did you know that his act was &#8220;outed&#8221; by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/12\/27\/national\/main7189082.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">good deed he attempted to do?<\/a> Yes, it may have been done partly from vindictiveness; still, he was trying to save a kid from abuse.\n<li>You saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k\" target=\"_blank\">the cartoon<\/a>. Now read why a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2011\/0117\/opinions-amity-shlaes-current-events-cartoon-economics.html\" target=\"_blank\">fluffy bears (or are they dogs?) are making more economic sense<\/a> than your average Ph.D. economist. At least to 4,000,000 YouTube watchers.\n<li>Mobile prison guard towers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tVQRMrlQ95U\" target=\"_blank\">coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you.<\/a> Thanks to fed Homeland (Achtung!) Security grants, of course. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/Front-Page.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Freedoms Phoenix<\/a>.)\n<li>Coming soon to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/02\/science\/02see.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">a prison, a hospital, or a town square<\/a> near you. (NY Times link) But OTOH, we can also hope they&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2011\/01\/02\/20110102afghan-gorgon0102.html\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelmed with data<\/a>.\n<li>To heck with all that dreariness. Instead, three delightful dog stories: Esperanza, a stray with a badly broken leg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pawnation.com\/2010\/12\/23\/homeless-injured-dog-and-supermom-takes-care-of-her-litter-an\/\" target=\"_blank\">still manages to be a supermom<\/a>; One pound dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendbulletin.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20101209\/NEWS0107\/312099999\" target=\"_blank\">saves the life of another<\/a>; and yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2010-12\/video-smartest-dog-ever-can-pick-out-1022-toys-name\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s one smart border collie<\/a>. (My BC\/ACD cross &#8212; a mix of the #1 and #10 smartest breeds in the world &#8212; knows only one word &#8212; &#8220;ball&#8221; &#8212; and fails to recognize that when she&#8217;s not in the mood to play.)\n<li>The writer in me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2118315\/\" target=\"_blank\">is <i>so<\/i> tempted.<\/a> The article is five years old, but the hyperactive five-year-old that jumps around in my brain when I&#8217;m trying to begin an article doesn&#8217;t care. She just needs to be STFU.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-12-31\/mikhail-khodorkovsky-verdict-the-end-to-russian-democracy\/?cid=bs:archive2\" target=\"_blank\">On Mikhail Khodorkovsky:<\/a> &#8220;When the Soviet Union fell, almost all property in Russia was in the hands of the state. This meant that it was controlled by government bureaucrats. At the same time, only criminal elements and those who had benefited from the connections to the authorities during the perestroika period and were able to start their own businesses had money to buy it. Khodorkovsky, a young communist league (komsomol) activist, was in the latter category. Like other nascent \u201ccapitalists,\u201d Khodorkovsky benefited from corrupt ties to government officials to amass phenomenal wealth. &#8230; Unlike the other Russian oligarchs, who amassed wealth in similar ways, however, Khodorkovsky realized that the Russian rules of gangster capitalism had to change if Russia was ever to be a civilized country and he took steps to transform Yukos into a modern Western company. He declared his income and introduced Western standards of accounting and governance. He also began to exercise the rights of a Western businessman, including the right to finance opposition political parties. It was this that set him on a collision course with Putin.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, whaddayou know? &#8220;The Happy Marriage is the &#8216;Me&#8217; Marriage&#8221; &#8212; not the ego-me, but the growing-me. (NY Times free subscription link) You heard about the man facing five years in prison for reading his wife&#8217;s email. Did you know that his act was &#8220;outed&#8221; by a good deed he attempted to do? Yes, it may have been done partly from vindictiveness; still, he was trying to save a kid from abuse. You saw the cartoon. Now read why a couple of fluffy bears (or are they dogs?) are making more economic sense than your average Ph.D. economist. At least&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/monday-miscellany-24\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","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=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}