{"id":40440,"date":"2018-12-27T11:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40440"},"modified":"2018-12-27T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T22:52:13","slug":"thursday-links-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/thursday-links-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It remains a mystery (not really) why, as police tactics get harsher, pre-raid investigation and planning is ever more carelesss. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2018\/12\/26\/swat-team-sorry-not-the-right-house-maam\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sorry m&#8217;am. Wrong house.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Scott Greenfield adds his take <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/12\/27\/never-leave-home-without-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the NYT&#8217;s wet dream<\/a> of having banks monitor our politically incorrect transactions.\n<li>The North Korean government owes $501 million <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/yellowribbonproject\/d-c-judge-hits-north-korea-with-501-million-award-to-parents-of-tortured-u-s-hostage\/\" target=\"_blank\">to the Warmbier family<\/a> for torturing their son to death. S&#8217;pose they&#8217;ll pay up?\n<li>Think FEMA is incompetent? <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/report-38-percent-of-fema-employees-aren\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA knows it is<\/a>. (But central planning wouldn&#8217;t improve one iota if employees were better trained.)\n<li>American Colin O&#8217;Brady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/8a44f393f98a4b43bacf5034e398d796\" target=\"_blank\">has become the first person<\/a> ever to cross Antarctica solo and unaided. He&#8217;s now waiting for his British rival to catch up to him so they can celebrate together. (From the mileage given, I don&#8217;t think these guys are crossing the continent at its widest part. But still &#8230;)\n<li>Is the moon doing weirder things to attract attention, here in the Selfie Age? Or are astronomy geeks the attention seekers? Next month they say we&#8217;re going to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/lifestyle\/super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-will-take-place-on-jan-20\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;super blood wolf moon eclipse.&#8221;<\/a> I&#8217;ve lived a long time and never heard of such a thing.\n<li>I seriously doubt, even in this narcissistic day, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/39713\/selfie-wrist-becoming-health-problem-digital-age-joseph-curl\" target=\"_blank\">selfie wrist<\/a> is a worrisome medical condition.\n<li>Because you asked: The world&#8217;s greatest expert on this subject (yes, there apparently actually is one) explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/2018\/12\/21\/18151903\/history-jews-chinese-food-christmas-kosher-american\" target=\"_blank\">why American Jews eat Chinese food<\/a> on Christmas.\n<li>Whodathunkit? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/dennis-quaid-to-sing-in-new-documentary-about-political-censorship-our-whole-culture-has-become-intolerant\" target=\"_blank\">Add Dennis Quaid<\/a> to the short roster of normal, sane, tolerant human beings in Hollywood.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>It remains a mystery (not really) why, as police tactics get harsher, pre-raid investigation and planning is ever more carelesss. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsjournal.com\/2018\/12\/26\/swat-team-sorry-not-the-right-house-maam\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sorry m&#8217;am. Wrong house.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Scott Greenfield adds his take <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/12\/27\/never-leave-home-without-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the NYT&#8217;s wet dream<\/a> of having banks monitor our politically incorrect transactions.\n<li>The North Korean government owes $501 million <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/yellowribbonproject\/d-c-judge-hits-north-korea-with-501-million-award-to-parents-of-tortured-u-s-hostage\/\" target=\"_blank\">to the Warmbier family<\/a> for torturing their son to death. S&#8217;pose they&#8217;ll pay up?\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/27\/thursday-links-103\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[4,6,7,12,13,18,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","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\/40440","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=40440"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40455,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40440\/revisions\/40455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}