{"id":37701,"date":"2018-07-13T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37701"},"modified":"2018-07-13T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:11:11","slug":"friday-links-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-links-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Nooooo, minorities <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/07\/13\/short-take-who-would-harm-rodolfo\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t be racist<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t happen. (Scott Greenfield brings his usual good sense to an ugly subject.)\n<li>Yes, PayPal, death is definitely not <a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6204421\/paypal-gets-shredded-in-facebook-comments-section-for-horribly-insensitive-letter\" target=\"_blank\">a breach of your terms that can be remedied<\/a>.\n<li>On Friday the 13th, Maggie McNeill <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-the-thirteenth-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">urges us all<\/a> to give very libertarian respect and support to the rights of sex workers.\n<li>The U.S. is doomed, says the inimitable James Altucher. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-doomed-one-big-problem-could-collapse-country-2018-7\" target=\"_blank\">not for the reasons you might think<\/a>.\n<li>Resistance builds &#8212; and in fairly serious places &#8212; to the heinous <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/07\/12\/new-calls-for-the-supreme-court-to-recon\" target=\"_blank\">concept of qualified immunity<\/a>.\n<li>That&#8217;s particularly apropos in light of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-tsa-lawsuit\/tsa-screeners-win-immunity-from-abuse-claims-appeals-court-idUSKBN1K125W\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s court decision<\/a> that TSA agents &#8212; of all people! &#8212; are in the ranks of those who possess a government license to abuse the peasants at will and without personal consequences.\n<li>Because plastic straws are the Great Eeeeeeeevil of the moment, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/12\/starbucks-straw-ban-will-see-the-company\" target=\"_blank\">Starbucks gets environmental brownie points<\/a> for ditching straws &#8212; and using <em>even more plastic<\/em>.\n<li>Court orders New Jersey workers comp <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/precedent-set-as-court-orders-govt-to-pay-for-medical-pot-instead-of-opioids-for-workers-comp\/\" target=\"_blank\">to cover medical cannabis<\/a> as an alternative to opiates.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Nooooo, minorities <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/07\/13\/short-take-who-would-harm-rodolfo\/\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t be racist<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t happen. (Scott Greenfield brings his usual good sense to an ugly subject.)\n<li>Yes, PayPal, death is definitely not <a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6204421\/paypal-gets-shredded-in-facebook-comments-section-for-horribly-insensitive-letter\" target=\"_blank\">a breach of your terms that can be remedied<\/a>.\n<li>On Friday the 13th, Maggie McNeill <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-the-thirteenth-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">urges us all<\/a> to give very libertarian respect and support to the rights of sex workers.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-links-113\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[5,7,13,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701","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=37701"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37711,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701\/revisions\/37711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}