{"id":39751,"date":"2018-11-21T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39751"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:58:50","slug":"midweek-links-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/midweek-links-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Stories and photos from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in-pictures-45046023\" target=\"_blank\">remote, off-grid community<\/a> in Scotland.\n<li>There is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2018\/11\/20\/another-multi-state-e-coli-outbreak-likely-linked-romaine-lettuce\/2071695002\/\" target=\"_blank\">yet another e-coli outbreak<\/a> linked to romaine lettuce. The FDA recommends tossing any romaine you might have. (I got this word from MJ yesterday evening &#8230; five minutes after finishing a big salad made with guess what? I seem to have survived the experience so far.)\n<li>How a six-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2365666\/boy-lost-woods-oregon\" target=\"_blank\">survived being lost in the woods<\/a> while walking 18 miles toward safety. He&#8217;s 39 now and revisits his trek with a writer from <em>Outside<\/em>.\n<li>FBI data shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/11\/fbi-data-shows-armed-citizens-have-94-success-rate-stopping-would-be-mass-shooters\/\" target=\"_blank\">armed citizens are 94% successful<\/a> in stopping would-be mass shooters. (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/11\/fbi-data-shows-armed-citizens-have-94-success-rate-stopping-would-be-mass-shooters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Codrea<\/a>)\n<li>Sometimes federal courts make judgments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-female-genital-mutilation-law-20181120-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">that offend every decent sensibility<\/a>. Yet sometimes, as Scott Greenfield notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/11\/21\/despicable-but-not-federal-female-genital-mutilation\/\" target=\"_blank\">those judgments are in true defense of what&#8217;s left of the Constitution<\/a>. (H\/T M)\n<li>Some decisions are much better, even though not perfect from a freedomista standpoint. One long fight <a href=\"https:\/\/ij.org\/press-release\/u-s-supreme-court-rules-in-missouri-hair-braiding-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">over one of the nation&#8217;s more insane licensing laws<\/a> has ended in a victory for African-American hair braiders and the Institute for Justice.\n<li>While F*c*b**k was busy expelling critics of government, peace activists, and cop watchers, it was allowing itself to be used <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/facebook-post-selling-child\/\" target=\"_blank\">to auction off a 16-year-old girl<\/a> to the highest bidder.\n<li>Jim Bovard says the government should <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/usa-today-give-julian-assange-a-medal-of-freedom-not-an-indictment\/\" target=\"_blank\">give Julian Assange a medal<\/a>, not an indictment.\n<li>Sometimes I think The Oatmeal has jumped the shark. Then Matthew Inman <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/insight\" target=\"_blank\">comes up with a beauty<\/a> like this long graphic in praise and wonder of InSight&#8217;s upcoming Mars landing. He&#8217;ll also be tweeting the landing&#8217;s &#8220;seven minutes of terror&#8221; from the Jet Propulsion Lab on Monday.\n<li>A young border collie, left behind in Paradise, CA, during the fire is found badly burned but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6403579\/Abandoned-dog-guarding-neighbors-home-Camp-Fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">guarding the only house standing<\/a> in her neighborhood. No surprise that the GoFundMe for the dog&#8217;s medical bills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/awqx7v-ellas-vet-bills?fbclid=IwAR0I_VgXmsuARNZ_a4r-b0XP73-W4HnwLNEyErireovrq2UR8nmWl9_6qrg\" target=\"_blank\">far exceeded expectations<\/a> (but then, I suspect her long-term vet care from those burns might also exceed expectations).\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories and photos from a remote, off-grid community in Scotland. There is yet another e-coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. The FDA recommends tossing any romaine you might have. (I got this word from MJ yesterday evening &#8230; five minutes after finishing a big salad made with guess what? I seem to have survived the experience so far.) How a six-year-old survived being lost in the woods while walking 18 miles toward safety. He&#8217;s 39 now and revisits his trek with a writer from Outside. FBI data shows that armed citizens are 94% successful in stopping would-be mass shooters. (Via&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/midweek-links-96\/\">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":[7,8,11,12,13,18,19,22,23,24,27,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-off-grid","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-preparedness","category-religion","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39751","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=39751"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39767,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39751\/revisions\/39767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}