{"id":38670,"date":"2018-09-12T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38670"},"modified":"2018-09-11T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T00:26:00","slug":"midweek-links-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/midweek-links-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>David French of the <em>National Review<\/em> calls Amber Guyger&#8217;s murder of a man in his own home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/amber-guyger-botham-jean-shooting-police-must-face-impartial-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the worst police shooting yet.&#8221;<\/a> I don&#8217;t know about that, but it certainly has all the elements, including favoritism and the typical cover story.\n<li>From <em>Wired<\/em>: How to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/10\/move-2-million-people-hurricane-matthews-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">move a million people<\/a> out of a hurricane&#8217;s way. Good luck, mid-Atlantean readers!\n<li>She made it through Hurricane Harvey &#8212; though not necessarily well. Now Sara Cress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/09\/11\/646801442\/houstonian-who-lived-through-hurricane-harvey-offers-advice-for-those-in-florenc\" target=\"_blank\">gives advice<\/a> on how to prepare for a flood. (NPR broadcast; not sure whether transcript will be online by the time this posts, but she mentions things people might not think of.)\n<li>Via Wendy McElroy: Things you might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicpolicyjournal.com\/2018\/09\/things-you-may-want-to-buy-now-before.html\" target=\"_blank\">want to buy before Trump&#8217;s new tariffs kick in<\/a>. (And of course you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">know where to buy them<\/a>.)\n<li>Kiribati is an otherwise undistinguished island nation that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/nation-kiribati-growing-not-sinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">gotten big press<\/a> for being a dying victim of global warming. Except it appears its islands are &#8230; oopsie, actually growing.\n<li>Yet another criminal government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2018\/09\/10\/leland-north-carolina-prohibits-transport-or-possession-of-weapons-outside-of-private-premises-ahead-of-hurricane-florence\/\" target=\"_blank\">attempts to prevent<\/a> residents from protecting themselves in an emergency.\n<li>Weird trend in poly-ticks: people are increasingly changing their racial, religious, sexual, or cultural identities <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/americans-are-shifting-the-rest-of-their-identity-to-match-their-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">to match their political perceptions<\/a>.\n<li>Another creepy trend: <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-politicization-of-the-young-isnt-cute-it-s-creepy-political-evangelism\/\" target=\"_blank\">politicizing children<\/a> and setting them up as experts and leaders.\n<li>Today&#8217;s Marie Antoinettes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbwns.com\/2018\/09\/10\/the-bears-lair-the-marie-antoinette-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Let them eat kale!&#8221;<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Never Yet Melted<\/a>)\n<li>Dogs that were bred for one job <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/failed-working-dog-story-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">and can&#8217;t do it<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David French of the National Review calls Amber Guyger&#8217;s murder of a man in his own home &#8220;the worst police shooting yet.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know about that, but it certainly has all the elements, including favoritism and the typical cover story. From Wired: How to move a million people out of a hurricane&#8217;s way. Good luck, mid-Atlantean readers! She made it through Hurricane Harvey &#8212; though not necessarily well. Now Sara Cress gives advice on how to prepare for a flood. (NPR broadcast; not sure whether transcript will be online by the time this posts, but she mentions things people&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/midweek-links-88\/\">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":[7,8,11,12,19,20,23,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670","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=38670"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38683,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670\/revisions\/38683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}