{"id":38322,"date":"2018-08-23T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38322"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T14:53:25","slug":"midweek-links-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/midweek-links-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anindependentmind.com\/2018\/08\/20\/atlas-mugged\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlas Mugged<\/em><\/a>. Crony capitalism and Elizabeth Warren are two more ways Rand&#8217;s novel is proving prophetic.\n<li>Nathan Barton: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepriceofliberty.org\/2018\/08\/22\/welcome-to-the-ghetto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to the ghetto<\/a> (beginning with gun owners).\n<li>A teaching assistant at the University of Utah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11241\" target=\"_blank\">tries creating a punitive Second Amendment Zone<\/a> in class. What was that supposed to accomplish, exactly?\n<li>Such a surprise. Comey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/22\/despite_comey_assurance_vast_bulk_of_weiner_laptop_emails_never_examined.html\" target=\"_blank\">lied<\/a> when he said the FBI had examined all the Clinton email on Weiner&#8217;s computer.\n<li>Also unsurprising: Turns out our brains are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/brain-distraction-procrastination-science\" target=\"_blank\">designed to be distracted<\/a>.\n<li>Socialism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/blogs\/dispatch\/socialism-as-a-hate-crime-9746\" target=\"_blank\">is a hate crime<\/a>.\n<li>Hollywood&#8217;s appalling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/hollywood-silence-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">silence on free speech<\/a>.\n<li>Groups representing various disabled people <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/08\/23\/disabled-groups-starbucks-straw-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">protest Starbucks&#8217; plastic-straw ban<\/a>.\n<li>Scott Greenfield on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/08\/23\/the-intersection-of-alameda-county-and-an-old-deaf-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">the intersection of Alameda County<\/a> and one old deaf woman. Cops are increasingly not only tyrannical and brutal, but too stupid to function in civilization.\n<li>Just how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/2018\/08\/social-justice-is-overrunning-the-university-of-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">over the top<\/a> is &#8220;social justice&#8221; in campus bureaucracy, culture, and coursework?\n<li>Oh, good. Bacteria may be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/555371\/bacteria-can-turn-type-and-b-blood-universal-type-o\" target=\"_blanK\">turn type A and B blood<\/a> into type O. (That would be good news for those not too happy about being &#8220;universal donors&#8221; whose blood type might be in short supply at need.)\n<li>Under pressure from PETA Barnum&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/807c70b54651496c8fb6d3a78225b84d\/Animal-crackers-break-out-of-their-cages\" target=\"_blank\">frees the animals<\/a>. Animal crackers, that is. (H\/T BD)\n<li>(Aside from getting a ticket) Reasons you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/firefighters-break-windows-car-parking-fire-hydrants\/\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t park in front of a fire hydrant<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anindependentmind.com\/2018\/08\/20\/atlas-mugged\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlas Mugged<\/em><\/a>. Crony capitalism and Elizabeth Warren are two more ways Rand&#8217;s novel is proving prophetic.\n<li>Nathan Barton: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepriceofliberty.org\/2018\/08\/22\/welcome-to-the-ghetto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to the ghetto<\/a> (beginning with gun owners).\n<li>A teaching assistant at the University of Utah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11241\" target=\"_blank\">tries creating a punitive Second Amendment Zone<\/a> in class. What was that supposed to accomplish, exactly?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/midweek-links-87\/\">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":[6,7,9,11,12,13,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","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\/38322","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=38322"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38342,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38322\/revisions\/38342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}