{"id":38256,"date":"2018-08-18T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38256"},"modified":"2018-08-18T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:34:40","slug":"weekend-links-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/18\/weekend-links-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A judge knocks the latest Bloombergian nonsense <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/1083992\/nra-lawsuit-win-i-1639\/\" target=\"_blank\">off the Washington state ballot<\/a>. Our own Comrade X had something to do with this. And the billionaire victim disarmers hoisted themselves on their own petard (i.e. their sheer incompetence).\n<li>Georgia cop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/08\/17\/grandmother-tased-georgia-police-cutting-flowers\/1017125002\/\" target=\"_blank\">tasers an 87-year-old grandma<\/a> who was cutting dandelions. His department defends him, &#8217;cause you know, an old lady with a knife has a &#8220;capacity&#8221; for attacking a cop, even if she isn&#8217;t.\n<li>He robbed the bank. Sixty years later he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/bank-robber-riviera-1.4787029\" target=\"_blank\">returned there for dinner<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>A libertarian case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/politics-society\/2018\/08\/06\/libertarian-case-common-good\" terget=\"_blank\">for the common good<\/a>. (Of course community has a place &#8212; and a big one &#8212; in a society of individual rights.)\n<li>Another one bites the dust. Shopify not only <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/shopify-ceo-deletes-free-speech-commitment-company-purges-gun-related-retailers\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\">gun-related retailers<\/a>, but also any lingering commitment to free speech.\n<li>Proving it is no better than any worldly bureaucracy, the Catholic church <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/08\/15\/in-the-face-of-horror-the-catholic-church-is-worried-about-pr\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\">confronts renewed horror<\/a> with self-preservationist PR.\n<li>Proving it is far worse than most worldy bureaucracies, the Catholic church <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/lies-and-cover-ups-catholic-church-in-pennsylvania-had-playbook-to-keep-priest-abuse-secret-fbi-said\/ar-BBM27I3?ocid=ientp\" target=\"_blank\">had a secret playbook<\/a> for covering up and perpetuating even the most unthinkable child abuse.\n<li>From Brad at Wendy&#8217;s place, a welcome real-life reminder of a James P. Hogan story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?item.8871.2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Generation Gap.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodwork.com\/funnies\/funnyitem.php?id=524\" target=\"_blank\">Latin phrases<\/a>. Some are the real deal, some not so much. (L.S. inspired me to find this when he headed an email &#8220;Ne conjugare nobiscum.&#8221; Look it up.)\n<li>Possibly the <a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6524677\/struggling-writer-shoots-himself-in-the-foot-and-then-it-gets-worse\" target=\"_blank\">worst writer rejection story<\/a> of all time. (True? Dunno. Funny.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>A judge knocks the latest Bloombergian nonsense <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/1083992\/nra-lawsuit-win-i-1639\/\" target=\"_blank\">off the Washington state ballot<\/a>. Our own Comrade X had something to do with this. And the billionaire victim disarmers hoisted themselves on their own petard (i.e. their sheer incompetence).\n<li>Georgia cop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/08\/17\/grandmother-tased-georgia-police-cutting-flowers\/1017125002\/\" target=\"_blank\">tasers an 87-year-old grandma<\/a> who was cutting dandelions. His department defends him, &#8217;cause you know, an old lady with a knife has a &#8220;capacity&#8221; for attacking a cop, even if she isn&#8217;t.\n<li>He robbed the bank. Sixty years later he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/bank-robber-riviera-1.4787029\" target=\"_blank\">returned there for dinner<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/18\/weekend-links-109\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[4,7,9,12,18,19,23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256","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=38256"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38271,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256\/revisions\/38271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}