{"id":38015,"date":"2018-08-04T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38015"},"modified":"2018-08-04T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:22:33","slug":"saturday-links-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/saturday-links-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Leave it to the Lone Star state once again. Texas Tech police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/kamc-news\/tech-police-say-the-campus-carry-law-makes-tech-safer\/1335470065\" target=\"_blank\">say campus carry makes them safer<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to LarryA)\n<li>Michelle Malkin says, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/08\/free-valentino-dixon\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Free Valentino Dixon.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Just in case you need more than the NYT&#8217;s assurance that their new hire Sarah Jeong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/six_things_that_the_new_york_times_probably_didnt_think_about_when_hiring_and_defending_sarah_jeong.html\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t racist<\/a>. Or sexist. Or heterophobic. Nooooo, not her. (For the record, I don&#8217;t think having creepy opinions is a firing offense; but her hiring does cement NYT firmly in place as a provincial rag of the blue archipelago.)\n<li>Why <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2018\/08\/heres-why-rip-roaring-inflation-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">rip-roaring inflation<\/a> is inevitable. Good piece &#8212; though anybody who calls recent inflation &#8220;tame&#8221; hasn&#8217;t been buying groceries or building supplies.\n<li>Really, <em>New Yorker<\/em>? Does <em>everything<\/em> have to be turned into a political diatribe? Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-decline-and-fall-of-diet-coke-and-the-power-generation-that-loved-it\" target=\"_blank\">downfall of Diet Coke<\/a>?\n<li>A pot breathalyzer? Oh, gimme a break. The problems with this device <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/08\/04\/634992695\/the-pot-breathalyzer-is-here-maybe\" target=\"_blank\">and this article<\/a> are too numerous to count.\n<li>Zendo Deb has links to <a href=\"https:\/\/wheelgun.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/04\/connections-by-james-burke\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Burke&#8217;s <em>Connections<\/em><\/a>, possibly the most eye-opening series ever to appear on television. It showed how historic developments affected each other in unexpected ways.\n<li>How a rapacious email provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/jpay-securus-prison-email-charging-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\">profits off prisoners<\/a> and their families. Yup, it helps to have a literally captive audience.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2018\/08\/04\/the-value-of-q\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Value of Q.&#8221;<\/a> Great thinkpiece from Hardscrabble Farmer and The Burning Platform.\n<li>Amazon link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Epicdelusion-Orwell-Fiction-T-Shirt-X-Large\/dp\/B07C65KDM5\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Make Orwell Fiction Again<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07G6F4K5F\/target=\"_blank\">an alt design<\/a>. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/libertymaniacs.com\/products\/make-orwell-fiction-again-trucker-cap\" target=\"_blank\">hats, too<\/a> (not an Amazon link). (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Short dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/canine-corner\/201808\/some-dogs-tell-lies-urine\" target=\"_blank\">lie about their height<\/a>.\n<li>This tiny article is old and has appeared here before. But we can always use the happy reminder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.no-treason.com\/2001\/06\/09\/font-facepapyrus-size6do-somethingfont\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Do something.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T AA)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Leave it to the Lone Star state once again. Texas Tech police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/kamc-news\/tech-police-say-the-campus-carry-law-makes-tech-safer\/1335470065\" target=\"_blank\">say campus carry makes them safer<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to LarryA)\n<li>Michelle Malkin says, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/08\/free-valentino-dixon\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Free Valentino Dixon.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Just in case you need more than the NYT&#8217;s assurance that their new hire Sarah Jeong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/six_things_that_the_new_york_times_probably_didnt_think_about_when_hiring_and_defending_sarah_jeong.html\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t racist<\/a>. Or sexist. Or heterophobic. Nooooo, not her. (For the record, I don&#8217;t think having creepy opinions is a firing offense; but her hiring does cement NYT firmly in place as a provincial rag of the blue archipelago.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/saturday-links-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday 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":[4,5,7,8,9,12,13,19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38015","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=38015"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38037,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38015\/revisions\/38037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}