{"id":39122,"date":"2018-10-15T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39122"},"modified":"2018-10-15T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:00:47","slug":"monday-links-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/monday-links-138\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Today the trial begins. A group of Asians is suing Harvard for racial discrimination in admissions. Some supporters of affirmative action have persuaded themselves that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/14\/us\/harvard-protest-affirmative-action.html\" target=\"_blank\">white supremacy in action<\/a>.\n<li>Another powerful expose of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2018\/10\/14\/little-rocks-dangerous-and-illegal-drug-war\/?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.bbf751654a6b\" target=\"_blank\">drug war cruelty and corruption<\/a> by Radley Balko.\n<li>Scott Greenfield takes down the notion that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/10\/15\/short-take-the-change-du-jour-52-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">we need two new states<\/a>. (Hey, if they get DC and Puerto Rico, we should get Jefferson, at the very least. There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/soj51.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">official movement<\/a>.)\n<li>Found this at <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy&#8217;s place<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t it seem to you that this program to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/10\/12\/thousands-line-up-for-zero-down-payment-subprime-mortgages.html\" target=\"_blank\">educate sub-prime homebuyers<\/a> and get them into low-interest mortgages would be a whole lot more effective if they required the candidates to save up for at least minimal down payments? You know, to demonstrate that they&#8217;ve actually learned something and can also afford ownership and maintenance?\n<li>What <a href=\"https:\/\/oddstuffmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alcohol-Fats.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">really kills you<\/a> is &#8230;\n<li>Dogs and their people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XU3WAdON9Ag\" target=\"_blank\">finding each other<\/a> in the wake of devastating tornadoes. A couple of cats, too. (H\/T Shel)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Today the trial begins. A group of Asians is suing Harvard for racial discrimination in admissions. Some supporters of affirmative action have persuaded themselves that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/14\/us\/harvard-protest-affirmative-action.html\" target=\"_blank\">white supremacy in action<\/a>.\n<li>Another powerful expose of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2018\/10\/14\/little-rocks-dangerous-and-illegal-drug-war\/?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.bbf751654a6b\" target=\"_blank\">drug war cruelty and corruption<\/a> by Radley Balko.\n<li>Scott Greenfield takes down the notion that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/10\/15\/short-take-the-change-du-jour-52-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">we need two new states<\/a>. (Hey, if they get DC and Puerto Rico, we should get Jefferson, at the very least. There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/soj51.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">official movement<\/a>.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/monday-links-138\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[7,8,16,19,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122","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=39122"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39133,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions\/39133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}