{"id":38820,"date":"2018-09-19T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38820"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:12:14","slug":"midweek-links-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/midweek-links-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The prosecution of Cody Wilson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cody-wilson-accused-child-sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">having sex with an underage prostitute<\/a> absolutely reeks of being a setup by enforcers pissed off that they couldn&#8217;t get him any other way. (H\/T MP)\n<li>In July, it became the first cannabis company to go public on the Nasdaq. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/business-and-finance\/2018\/9\/19\/17879830\/tilray-stock-cannabis-peter-thiel-short-squeeze\" target=\"_blank\">Tilray is making a lot of people rich<\/a>. But it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2018\/09\/19\/tilray-is-partying-like-its-1999-and-it-wont-end-w.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">partying like it&#8217;s 1999<\/a>, says <em>The Motley Fool<\/em>.\n<li>The fedgov <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/09\/17\/journalists-fisa-court-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\">gives itself permission<\/a> to spy on journalists &#8212; another delightful use of the FISA system.\n<li>Yes, generally when you&#8217;ve been the victim of a sexual assault that left you in fear of your life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/09\/19\/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-dr-christine-blasey-ford-sexual-assault-column\/1346536002\/\" target=\"_blank\">you remember the details<\/a> a hell of a lot more vividly than Dr. Ford does.\n<li>Philadelphia &#8212; one of the most notorious hubs of asset theft in the nation &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/city-demolish-nations-most-egregious-civil-asset-forfeiture-program-pay-millions-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been beaten back<\/a> by a determined family and will have to curb its uncivil asset forfeiture practices.\n<li>I&#8217;d never heard of this until Shel posted the link in comments. But something called <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/andrewmangione\/2018\/03\/03\/the-multibillion-dollar-solution--repeal-safe-harbor-n2456781\" target=\"_blank\">Safe Harbor<\/a> legalized hospitals (through their group purchasing organizations) taking kickbacks from drug vendors. How can something so big, so damaging, so outright criminal, be so far off our radar?\n<li>The editor of the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/19\/arts\/ian-buruma-out-jian-ghomeshi.html\" target=\"_blank\">gets canned<\/a> for daring to print an essay by a man acquitted of sexual crimes.\n<li>In the Golden Age of television, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/emmy-viewership-hits-record-low\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emmy award viewership hits a new low<\/a>. Yes, celebs, we&#8217;re all tired of you congratulating yourself on your &#8220;diversity.&#8221; And the rest of your politics, too.\n<li>Money <em>can<\/em> buy happiness. Or luxury spending can &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/spending-money-on-expensive-stuff-can-make-you-happier-if-you-do-it-for-the-right-reason-2018-09-19\" target=\"_blank\">when done for the right reasons<\/a>.\n<li>Three clergymen try to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/rumford-public-librarys-display-of-banned-books-will-stay\/\" target=\"_blank\">ban a display of banned books<\/a>.\n<li>Researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2018\/09\/18\/cause-of-ibd-discovered-treatment\/#.W6GpH1JReS4\" target=\"_blank\">discover a major cause<\/a> of inflammatory bowel disease.\n<li>From the People Are Good department: An evacuated family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3000\/Evacuated-Family-Leaves-Food-And-Drinks-For-Utah-Firefighters\" target=\"_blank\">leaves food and drink<\/a> for firefighters.\n<li>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kids-buy-back-dads-1993-ford-mustang-that-he-sold-when-his-wife-was-diagnosed-with-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\">kids buy back dad&#8217;s 1993 Mustang<\/a>, which he had to sell to pay for his wife&#8217;s cancer treatment.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The prosecution of Cody Wilson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cody-wilson-accused-child-sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">having sex with an underage prostitute<\/a> absolutely reeks of being a setup by enforcers pissed off that they couldn&#8217;t get him any other way. (H\/T MP)\n<li>In July, it became the first cannabis company to go public on the Nasdaq. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/business-and-finance\/2018\/9\/19\/17879830\/tilray-stock-cannabis-peter-thiel-short-squeeze\" target=\"_blank\">Tilray is making a lot of people rich<\/a>. But it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2018\/09\/19\/tilray-is-partying-like-its-1999-and-it-wont-end-w.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">partying like it&#8217;s 1999<\/a>, says <em>The Motley Fool<\/em>.\n<li>The fedgov <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/09\/17\/journalists-fisa-court-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\">gives itself permission<\/a> to spy on journalists &#8212; another delightful use of the FISA system.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/midweek-links-89\/\">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":[5,7,9,11,12,13,19,20,23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/38820","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=38820"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38836,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820\/revisions\/38836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}