{"id":40487,"date":"2018-12-29T21:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40487"},"modified":"2018-12-29T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T00:11:19","slug":"weekend-links-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/weekend-links-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What if we bought our food <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/imagine-if-we-paid-for-food-like-we-do-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\">the way we buy our healthcare<\/a>?\n<li>But at least all U.S. hospitals <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/568662\/us-hospitals-must-list-prices-online-per-new-federal-law\" target=\"_blank\">will soon be posting their prices<\/a> online.\n<li>How data gathered via warrantless surveillance <a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/12\/28\/how-data-collected-in-warrantless-surveillance-ends-up-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">ends up everywhere<\/a>.\n<li>A scheduled women&#8217;s march in a very Caucasian part of northern California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/dec\/28\/organizers-cancel-womens-march-being-too-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">decided to cancel itself<\/a> because it&#8217;s too white. Oh, the shame of having the wrong skin color! We can at least thank heaven the undesirable marchers weren&#8217;t The Dreaded White Males. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>Take two planned emergency exercises on a military base. Add one runner who twists her ankle and calls for help. Add miscomunication and misunderstanding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/12\/19\/an-injured-runner-frantic-911-calls-and-confusion-how-exercises-spiraled-into-a-panicked-active-shooter-scare-at-this-air-force-base\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get total chaos<\/a>. This <em>Air Force Times<\/em> article goes into useful detail about how a botch like this can happen. (Also H\/T Shel)\n<li>John Kerry <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/john-kerrys-family-fights-to-keep-peasants-away-from-ancestral-french-villa-claiming-terror-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants to keep the peasants off his beach<\/a> even if he and his neighbors have to break the law to do so. (The article makes it a pro-Trump wall issue, which it isn&#8217;t. But what is it with the powerful always wanting their own privacy while thinking the hoi palloi deserve none? How do they live with themselves?)\n<li>Whatever else it was, 2018 has been a year of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-46597605\" target=\"_blank\">tremendous medical breakthroughs<\/a>.\n<li>Brendan Brown of the Mises Institute looks toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/depression-2019-2021\" target=\"_blank\">Depression of 2019-21<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-life-and-religion\/275065\/jews-on-the-prairie\" target=\"_blank\">Jews on the Prairie<\/a>. What happened when, in the 19th century, America&#8217;s sophisticated urban Jews tried to help their &#8220;backward&#8221; Russian shetl brethren homestead in Kansas.\n<li>Art historian, contemplative nun, and beloved TV personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/erasmus\/2018\/12\/28\/sister-wendy-beckett-made-a-difficult-combination-seem-effortless\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Wendy Beckett has died<\/a>.\n<li>Oopsie. The UK announces a &#8220;Best of British&#8221; postage stamp series. Their D-Day design <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2018\/12\/28\/a-royal-gaffe-uk-postal-service-issues-best-of-british-d-day-stamp-featuring-us-troops-8500-miles-away-in-the-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\">features American soldiers landing in New Guinea<\/a>.\n<li>Long weekend read: <a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2018\/12\/27\/the-science-of-dreaming\/\" target=\"_blank\">The science of dreaming<\/a>.\n<li>Dave Barry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/dave-barry\/article223204095.html\" target=\"_blank\">recaps the old year<\/a> as only Dave Barry can.\n<li>This Shiba Inu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/shiba-inu-paints-abstract-art-hunter\/\" target=\"_blank\">paints better than most dogs<\/a>. (And I mean that sincerely; he has a nice touch.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Win prep\/survival\/adventure books. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/win-these-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enter by January 10, 2019<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>What if we bought our food <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/imagine-if-we-paid-for-food-like-we-do-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\">the way we buy our healthcare<\/a>?\n<li>But at least all U.S. hospitals <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/568662\/us-hospitals-must-list-prices-online-per-new-federal-law\" target=\"_blank\">will soon be posting their prices<\/a> online.\n<li>How data gathered via warrantless surveillance <a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/12\/28\/how-data-collected-in-warrantless-surveillance-ends-up-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">ends up everywhere<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/weekend-links-119\/\">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":[6,7,8,11,13,16,19,20,25,27,28,29,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487","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=40487"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40511,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487\/revisions\/40511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}