{"id":40360,"date":"2018-12-23T07:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40360"},"modified":"2018-12-23T07:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T15:50:24","slug":"sunday-links-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/sunday-links-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>That FBI agent who was just a dancin&#8217; and a backflippin&#8217; and a shootin&#8217; in a bar &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crazy\/dancing-fbi-agent-who-backflipped-at-a-bar-and-accidentally-shot-a-man-has-learned-his-fate\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets probation<\/a>. Figures, dunnit?\n<li>Independent booksellers <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/as-independent-bookstores-make-a-comeback-e-book-sales-take-a-dive\/\" target=\"_blank\">are making a comeback<\/a>, while ebook sales slip. Yes, it&#8217;s nice to hold a physical book in your hands and to shop in an intimate little book store.\n<li>Never owned a bump stock? Think the new fiat against them is no big deal? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/12\/trumps-bump-stocks-ban-bigger-danger-2a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a very damned big deal<\/a> for all owners of semiauto firearms.\n<li>Science! Discovers that a parachute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/12\/22\/679083038\/researchers-show-parachutes-dont-work-but-there-s-a-catch\" target=\"_blank\">is no more effective than a regular backpack<\/a> when you jump out of an airplane! \ud83d\ude42 (Yes, there&#8217;s both a catch and a point.)\n<li>I suspect that this science is a bit self-serving, too. But having spent time in the early world of psychedelics, I <a href=\"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2018\/11\/microdose-lsd-magic-mushrooms.html\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t doubt the truth of these findings<\/a>. (But how the heck does one measure &#8220;wisdom&#8221;?) (H\/T Shel)\n<li>After the Great Recession, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/monetary-base-never-returned-normal-after-great-recession\" target=\"_blank\">monetary base never returned to &#8220;normal.&#8221;<\/a> (Geeky, but pertinent.)\n<li>Did you know the U.S. has 161 volcanoes? <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/161-volcanoes-in-the-u-s-threaten-lives-and-property-new-assessment-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Many of them are more dangerous<\/a> than we might realize.\n<li>Test your knowledge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/12\/21\/opinion\/first-step-american-incarceration.html\" target=\"_blank\">American incarceration<\/a>. A cool interactive that works even on my overly secured browser.\n<li>Just an FYI: Not all the &#8220;thieves&#8221; in the glitter-bomb anti-theft video were really thieves. Apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/22\/us\/glitter-bomb-creator-staged-video-footage-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">not the device creator&#8217;s doing<\/a>. He&#8217;s more upset than anybody and has removed 90 seconds of footage.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cavemancircus.com\/2018\/12\/18\/take-this-dose-of-truth-and-call-me-in-the-morning-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memes of wisdom<\/a> for responsible individuals.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>That FBI agent who was just a dancin&#8217; and a backflippin&#8217; and a shootin&#8217; in a bar &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crazy\/dancing-fbi-agent-who-backflipped-at-a-bar-and-accidentally-shot-a-man-has-learned-his-fate\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets probation<\/a>. Figures, dunnit?\n<li>Independent booksellers <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/as-independent-bookstores-make-a-comeback-e-book-sales-take-a-dive\/\" target=\"_blank\">are making a comeback<\/a>, while ebook sales slip. Yes, it&#8217;s nice to hold a physical book in your hands and to shop in an intimate little book store.\n<li>Never owned a bump stock? Think the new fiat against them is no big deal? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/12\/trumps-bump-stocks-ban-bigger-danger-2a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a very damned big deal<\/a> for all owners of semiauto firearms.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/sunday-links-11\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday 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":[4,12,13,18,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40360","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=40360"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40373,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40360\/revisions\/40373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}