{"id":38085,"date":"2018-08-07T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38085"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:56:10","slug":"tuesday-links-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/tuesday-links-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Reuters notices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-guns-nra\/hardline-u-s-gundamentalists-pressure-nra-from-within-idUSKBN1KQ09H\" target=\"_blank\">the rise of the &#8220;gundamentalists&#8221;<\/a> within the NRA.\n<li>Oopsie, sez the EPA, maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2018\/08\/epa-maybe-adding-ethanol-to-gasoline-wasnt-smart-after-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">adding ethanol to gasoline<\/a> wasn&#8217;t so smart after all. (Now I just wish they&#8217;d notice what those fedfools did to gas cans.)\n<li>The sudden spate of bans on Alex Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/08\/07\/infowars-bans-arent-alex-jones-theyre-big-techs-control-see\/\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t about Jones<\/a> or even about &#8220;fake news,&#8221; but about BigTech extending its control over us all.\n<li>The New York legislature passes a bill ordering all businesses in the state to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/08\/06\/new-york-lawmakers-pass-bill-mandating-3-months-paid-bereavement-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\">three months paid leave<\/a> if a close relative (even a grandparent) dies. Awaiting Cuomo&#8217;s signature now; he hasn&#8217;t said whether he&#8217;ll drain away the last of the state&#8217;s small business blood.\n<li>Turns out the Parkland shooter was crying out for all the help he could get &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2018\/08\/04\/bombshell-report-parkland-killer-asked-for-help-months-before-massacre-but-officials-ignored-him\" target=\"_blank\">but the school ignored or denied him<\/a>.\n<li>Meanwhile, the Parkland publicity Hogg <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/nra-protest-david-hogg-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">is out protesting<\/a> guns with his standard squad of armed bodyguards again.\n<li>Lawrence W. Reed at FEE: Who was <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/caligula-plumbing-the-depths-of-ancient-tyranny\/\" target=\"_blank\">the worst Roman emperor<\/a>?\n<li>And on a related topic <em>The Economist<\/em> contemplates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2018\/08\/01\/the-rise-and-the-rainfall-of-the-roman-empire\" target=\"_blank\">drought and the assassination of Roman emperors<\/a>. (Yes, it&#8217;s a climate change article, but an interesting perspective.)\n<li>The Hollywood city council v*tes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/hollywood-city-council-votes-to-remove-trumps-walk-of-fame-star-over-his-disturbing-treatment-of-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">remove Trump&#8217;s star<\/a> from the Walk of Fame. Which doesn&#8217;t mean that will happen; Cosby is still there. But boy, how many of those stars would disappear if they were rewarded or withdrawn based on personal behavior?\n<li>Very science-y and a heavy read, but geophysicists are beginning to guess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/07\/where_the_next_big_cascadia_earthquake_might_occur_110715.html\" target=\"_blank\">where the next big Cascadia quake<\/a> will originate.\n<li>Why (and how) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180724-the-complicated-truth-about-a-cats-purr\" target=\"_blank\">cats purr<\/a>. It&#8217;s not just about happiness. (H\/T Shel)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Reuters notices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-guns-nra\/hardline-u-s-gundamentalists-pressure-nra-from-within-idUSKBN1KQ09H\" target=\"_blank\">the rise of the &#8220;gundamentalists&#8221;<\/a> within the NRA.\n<li>Oopsie, sez the EPA, maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2018\/08\/epa-maybe-adding-ethanol-to-gasoline-wasnt-smart-after-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">adding ethanol to gasoline<\/a> wasn&#8217;t so smart after all. (Now I just wish they&#8217;d notice what those fedfools did to gas cans.)\n<li>The sudden spate of bans on Alex Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/08\/07\/infowars-bans-arent-alex-jones-theyre-big-techs-control-see\/\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t about Jones<\/a> or even about &#8220;fake news,&#8221; but about BigTech extending its control over us all.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/tuesday-links-123\/\">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":[6,7,8,9,12,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","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\/38085","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=38085"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38098,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085\/revisions\/38098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}