{"id":39188,"date":"2018-10-20T01:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39188"},"modified":"2018-10-19T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T03:34:35","slug":"weekend-links-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/weekend-links-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Why are black independent thinkers <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/10\/19\/black-trump-supporters-declare-independence-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">smeared by the media<\/a>?\n<li>Matt Welch: When the bubble bursts, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/18\/when-the-bubble-bursts-were-so-screwed\" target=\"_blank\">we are so screwed<\/a>. Ya think?\n<li>At <em>The Intercept<\/em> Shaun King remembers his college fraternity brother, now <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/19\/taser-chinedu-okobi-less-lethal\/\" target=\"_blank\">tasered to death by cops<\/a>.\n<li>Remember the gigantic blue wave that was going to overwhelm the 2018 mid-terms? The NYT is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/midterm-elections-republican-party-trump-senate-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">opinionating<\/a> about what would happen if that wave turned out to be &#8230; red.\n<li>Here comes flu-shot propaganda season again. I&#8217;m not opposed to getting shots if I know how well they work, but this mindless &#8220;get your shot whether it works or not&#8221; for three months every year drives me bonkers. Sharyl Attkisson <a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2018\/10\/19\/flu-shots-behind-the-promotion\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviews some of her past reporting<\/a> on the issue.\n<li>Um &#8230; didn&#8217;t people used to get arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/18\/rosie-odonnell-send-military-white-house-get-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">calling for the overthrow<\/a> of elected governments? Oh yeah. I guess it&#8217;s supposed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/19\/obligatory-rosie-wanted-military-coup-something-trump-won-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">a joke<\/a>. With Rosie The Mouth, how do you tell?\n<li>For you introverts and my Neighbor J: How an entire nation (Finland) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20181016-how-the-finnish-survive-without-small-talk\" target=\"_blank\">survives without small talk<\/a>.\n<li>This is cute. Nebraska &#8212; 50th out of the 50 states as a desirable tourist destination &#8212; comes up with a new campaign: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2018\/10\/18\/honestly-its-not-for-everyone-says-nebraskas-self-deprecating-new-tourism-campaign\/?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.bb04246400c4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Honestly, it&#8217;s not for everyone.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>A walk down the Memory Lane of dirty politics: Did Lee Atwater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/11\/was-gary-hart-set-up\/570802\/\" target=\"_blank\">set up Gary Hart<\/a> to fail? (Seems unlikely, even for that nasty wheeler-dealer.)\n<li>What do Einstein, the Incredible Hulk, the Eiffel Tower, Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat, and the Tardis all have in common? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/63879-fermi-gamma-ray-constellations-named.html\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;re new constellations<\/a> you&#8217;ll probably never see.\n<li>Well, so much for anybody who thinks there&#8217;s no difference between men and women. Men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/funny-photo-parody\/\" target=\"_blank\">perform classic pin-up poses<\/a>. (Warning: You will <em>never<\/em> be able to unsee this. Once you&#8217;ve clicked, you&#8217;re dooooooomed.)\n<li>An 18-year-old pizzeria manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\/michigan-pizzeria-employee-makes-epic-delivery-for-terminally-ill-man-nearly-500-miles-away\" target=\"_blank\">makes an extraordinary delivery<\/a> to a terminally ill customer.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Why are black independent thinkers <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/10\/19\/black-trump-supporters-declare-independence-democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">smeared by the media<\/a>?\n<li>Matt Welch: When the bubble bursts, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/18\/when-the-bubble-bursts-were-so-screwed\" target=\"_blank\">we are so screwed<\/a>. Ya think?\n<li>At <em>The Intercept<\/em> Shaun King remembers his college fraternity brother, now <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/19\/taser-chinedu-okobi-less-lethal\/\" target=\"_blank\">tasered to death by cops<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/20\/weekend-links-113\/\">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":[7,13,16,18,19,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188","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=39188"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39208,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions\/39208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}