{"id":39231,"date":"2018-10-23T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39231"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:49:25","slug":"tuesday-links-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/tuesday-links-130\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had two blogs I wanted to post today, but it&#8217;s been zip and zoom and zap since early morning. Commitments, appointments, distractions, demands. Then every time I think I have a moment to sit down, something interrupts.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got half an hour before an appointment. Let&#8217;s see if I can sneak some links into that time, and come back later (cross fingers) for post two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeffrey A. Tucker on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/epic-battle-control-your-thoughts\" target=\"_blank\">epic battle<\/a> to control our thoughts.\n<li>Naturally, the CIA has an official Chief of Disguise. A former holder of that office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8\" target=\"_blank\">made a short video<\/a> about her craft. Freedom Outlaws, pay heed!\n<li>Cory &#8220;Spartacus&#8221; Booker <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/senator-cory-booker-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-gay-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets accused of sexual assault<\/a> by a gay left-winger. Evidence? Well, apparently more than Christine Blasey Ford had.\n<li>Okay, cutting off foreign aid&#8217;s not a bad idea. But is anybody else bothered by the fact that Trump <em>thinks countries should be <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/10\/22\/trump-cut-aid-central-america-caravan\/\" target=\"_blank\">able to keep their citizens from getting out<\/em><\/a>?\n<li>Is political discourse getting nastier because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/dan-hannan-falling-iq-scores-may-explain-why-politics-has-turned-so-nasty\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;re literally getting more stupid<\/a> (thanks to the Internet)?\n<li>She ran four experiments to break her social-media addiction. Here <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/10\/i-ran-4-experiments-to-break-my-social-media-addiction-heres-what-worked\" target=\"_blank\">what worked<\/a>.\n<li>$10,000 toilet seats &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/air-force-defends-spending-more-than-300000-on-cups\/\" target=\"_blank\">$1,280 coffee cups<\/a>. Nope, the Pentagon hasn&#8217;t changed a bit.\n<li>His son was being bullied. Instead of getting mad or complaining to Authoritah, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/father-confronts-homeless-bully-aubrey-delinzer\/\" target=\"_blank\">he had a talk with the bigger kid in question<\/a>.\n<li>Taking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/awesome-costume-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween costumes<\/a> to the next level.\n<li>Garage sale holder <a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6990853\/man-teaches-irritably-petty-buyer-a-meaningful-lesson\" target=\"_blank\">teaches a petty wanna-be buyer<\/a> a meaningful lesson in both bargaining and human decency.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two blogs I wanted to post today, but it&#8217;s been zip and zoom and zap since early morning. Commitments, appointments, distractions, demands. Then every time I think I have a moment to sit down, something interrupts. Now I&#8217;ve got half an hour before an appointment. Let&#8217;s see if I can sneak some links into that time, and come back later (cross fingers) for post two. Jeffrey A. Tucker on the epic battle to control our thoughts. Naturally, the CIA has an official Chief of Disguise. A former holder of that office made a short video about her craft.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/tuesday-links-130\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[6,7,11,15,16,18,19,20,25,28,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-government","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39231","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=39231"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39246,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39231\/revisions\/39246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}