{"id":37423,"date":"2018-06-26T06:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37423"},"modified":"2018-06-26T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:21:08","slug":"tuesday-links-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/tuesday-links-120\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Students: Conventional wisdom <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/dear-high-school-graduates-status-quo.html\" target=\"_blank\">supports the status quo<\/a> at your expense, says Charles Hugh Smith with a terrifying collection of charts.\n<li>The NSA &#8212; and AT&#038;T&#8217;s &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/06\/25\/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">eight spy hubs<\/a>.\n<li>The great Walter Williams on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/32209\/williams-blind-real-problems-walter-e-williams\" target=\"_blank\">black leaders being blind to real problems<\/a>\n<li>Abducting people for a living <a href=\"http:\/\/thegarrisoncenter.org\/archives\/13829\" target=\"_blank\">should have consequences<\/a>, says Tom Knapp.\n<li>This is what happens when you have existing bad law (Thanks Bill Clinton and Congress), existing bad enforcement (Thanks, Bush and Obama), brain-dead bureaucracy, and agents &#8220;just doing their jobs.&#8221; Then add a megalomaniac who doesn&#8217;t give a damn about human beings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/separated-immigrant-children-are-all-over-the-us-now-far-from-parents-who-dont-know-where-they-are\/2018\/06\/24\/c9bc5ba6-7568-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">and you have child abuse<\/a> on a mass scale. (H\/T DG)\n<li>Of course, the prison-industrial complex has perpetrated similar abuse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1998\/12\/the-prison-industrial-complex\/304669\/\" target=\"_blank\">for a long time<\/a>, under both wings of the great carrion bird.\n<li>Best solution to the U.S.&#8217;s illegal immigrant problem: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jun\/25\/why-central-american-countries-must-be-pushed-towa\/\" target=\"_blank\">prosperity for Central America<\/a>. (I don&#8217;t agree with a lot in this article, but it&#8217;s got a point.)\n<li>The fedgov finally reached its ideal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/25\/your-money\/1040-income-tax-postcard.html\" target=\"_blank\">putting the 1040 form on a postcard<\/a> &#8212; and made it more complicated.\n<li>Richard Feynman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/richard-feynman-and-the-pleasure-principle\" target=\"_blank\">intellectual hedonist<\/a>.\n<li>Mini Neanderthal brains are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/62916-mini-neanderthal-brains.html\" target=\"_blank\">now being grown<\/a> in laboratories.\n<li>Rilke on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2018\/06\/22\/rilke-patience-solitude-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">the lonely patience<\/a> of creative art.\n<li>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/spurious-correlations\" target=\"_blank\">spurious correlations<\/a>. (H\/T BD)\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DogBrooming.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DogBrooming.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Students: Conventional wisdom <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/dear-high-school-graduates-status-quo.html\" target=\"_blank\">supports the status quo<\/a> at your expense, says Charles Hugh Smith with a terrifying collection of charts.\n<li>The NSA &#8212; and AT&#038;T&#8217;s &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/06\/25\/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">eight spy hubs<\/a>.\n<li>The great Walter Williams on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/32209\/williams-blind-real-problems-walter-e-williams\" target=\"_blank\">black leaders being blind to real problems<\/a>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/tuesday-links-120\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[2,8,13,15,16,18,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","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\/37423","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=37423"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37439,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37423\/revisions\/37439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}