{"id":37760,"date":"2018-07-18T09:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=37760"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:09:34","slug":"midweek-links-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/midweek-links-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yay for artistic freedom! A Florida government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/lake\/os-van-gogh-house-settlement-approved-20180717-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">has to make amends<\/a> to a couple who painted their home to resemble Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Starry Night.&#8221;*\n<li>Should a woman with drugs in her system <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/07\/18\/is-methadone-mom-a-murderer\/\" target=\"_blank\">be prosecuted as a murderer<\/a> for breastfeeding her baby?\n<li>Fighting back <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/groups-fight-back-against-fosta\" target=\"_blank\">against FOSTA<\/a>, the ridiculously broad new law that attacks both consensual sex workers and Internet freedom.\n<li>The allegedly conservative <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> prints an op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/postal-banking-faces-challenges-but-is-more-plausible-than-youd-think\" target=\"_blank\">in favor of the fedgov becoming a bank<\/a> for the allegedly unbanked and underbanked. (Does it occur to nobody that <em>more<\/em> gov involvement in banking is precisely the problem?)\n<li>Who would design &#8212; and who would want to use &#8212; a system that  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-scary-reasons-you-should-make-your-venmo-account-private-2018-07-17\" target=\"_blank\">makes personal financial transactions public<\/a> by default?\n<li>You already know this, but Charles Hugh Smith puts it so well: We don&#8217;t trust our institutions because <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/our-institutions-are-failing.html\" target=\"_blank\">our institutions are failing<\/a>.\n<li>So in what way <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/16\/congressman-military-stop-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">is this not a call<\/a> for a military coup? Funny how they love &#8220;democracy&#8221; until the moment it doesn&#8217;t produce their favored outcome.\n<li>You might be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2018\/07\/17\/you_might_be_slightly_conscious_under_anesthesia_110699.html\" target=\"_blank\">slightly conscious<\/a> while under anesthesia. OTOH, I&#8217;ve heard a friend&#8217;s horror story about how he was much more than slightly so &#8230;\n<li>Two good articles on the Thai cave rescue. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/18\/world\/asia\/thai-cave-boys-released-hospital.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the boys<\/a>, another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2018\/07\/17\/terrifying-details-thai-cave-rescue-revealed-by-divers.html\" target=\"_blank\">from rescuers<\/a>.\n<li>If you&#8217;ve ever seen the cliffs of Big Sur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2912\/Woman-Who-Went-Missing-For-A-Week-Tells-Incredible-Survival-Story\" target=\"_blank\">you know how amazing this woman&#8217;s survival is<\/a>.\n<li>What would dead pop stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/dead-celebrities-look-like-today-alive\/\" target=\"_blank\">look like if they were alive today<\/a>? (Some of these are scarily good.)\n<li>And your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2910\/College-Student-Walked-20-Miles-To-1st-Day-Of-Work-So-His-Boss-Gave-Him-His-Car\" target=\"_blank\">people-are-good story<\/a> for the day.\n<\/ul>\n<p>* I note (speaking to Anonymous) that HOAs aren&#8217;t the only stupidly brutal code enforcers in our neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Yay for artistic freedom! A Florida government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/lake\/os-van-gogh-house-settlement-approved-20180717-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">has to make amends<\/a> to a couple who painted their home to resemble Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Starry Night.&#8221;*\n<li>Should a woman with drugs in her system <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/07\/18\/is-methadone-mom-a-murderer\/\" target=\"_blank\">be prosecuted as a murderer<\/a> for breastfeeding her baby?\n<li>Fighting back <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/groups-fight-back-against-fosta\" target=\"_blank\">against FOSTA<\/a>, the ridiculously broad new law that attacks both consensual sex workers and Internet freedom.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/midweek-links-83\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,7,11,13,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-health-and-science","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\/37760","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=37760"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37774,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37760\/revisions\/37774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}