{"id":40544,"date":"2019-01-02T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40544"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:41:13","slug":"midweek-links-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/midweek-links-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The shutdown <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/shutdown-redundant-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">reminds us how redundant<\/a> and pointless much of the fedgov is.\n<li>You&#8217;ve probably already heard that Brazil&#8217;s new president Jair Bolsonaro plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6538075\/Brazils-president-elect-vows-loosen-gun-laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">enable all non-criminal citizens to bear arms<\/a>. Good. But how does that mesh with the newly elected governor of Rio&#8217;s plan to have cops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/law-and-policy\/license-to-kill-policing-to-get-a-trial-run-in-rio-de-janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">shoot all non-cops seen carrying rifles<\/a>? (H\/T M)\n<li>Eric Peters says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetersautos.com\/2018\/12\/31\/happy-de-platforming\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Happy De-Platforming!&#8221;<\/a> and generally notes the weirdly Soviet state of social media today.\n<li>If your New Year&#8217;s resolutions last through January 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/most-people-give-up-new-years-resolutions-by-january-12-study-claims\" target=\"_blank\">you&#8217;re probably ahead of the game<\/a>.\n<li>OTOH, Greg Elfritz says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activeresponsetraining.net\/skill-development-when-are-you-good-enough\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes &#8220;good enough&#8221; is good enough<\/a> when it comes to self-defense skills. (H\/T Shel)\n<li>The hubris of &#8220;Notorious RBG&#8221; (Ruth Bader Ginsberg) is troubling her worshippers and <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/01\/01\/rbgs-hubris-is-a-gift-for-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">may be a gift to Trump<\/a>.\n<li>Didn&#8217;t it used to be cheating (remember those infamous East German Olympic competitors?) for a biologically female athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/feb\/25\/mack-beggs-transgender-wrestler-wins-texas-girls-h\/\" target=\"_blank\">to compete against other females while taking male hormones<\/a> (H\/T Shel)\n<li>Sometimes developments could be humane and sensible if determined through private contract become idiotic, controlling, and cruel when done by the state. To wit: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.findlaw.com\/law_and_life\/2018\/10\/california-passes-new-law-for-custody-of-pets-in-divorce.html\" target=\"_blank\">California&#8217;s new law on handling pets<\/a> in divorce proceedings. (Tip o&#8217; hat to DB)\n<li>You can always count on Camille Paglia <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/camille-paglia-hillary-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">for insightful, plainspoken truth<\/a>. (Via AG in comments)\n<li>What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2018\/12\/31\/holy-names\/\" target=\"_blank\">church names<\/a> say about us. (A pleasant bit of fluff with a fair bit of meaning.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/article\/retirement\/T037-C000-S004-secrets-of-happiness-from-the-oldest-of-the-old.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secrets to contentment<\/a>. From old people.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Rifle Shooters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/governmentschooling_image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/governmentschooling_image-511x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/governmentschooling_image-511x800.jpg 511w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/governmentschooling_image-287x450.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/governmentschooling_image.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The shutdown <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/shutdown-redundant-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">reminds us how redundant<\/a> and pointless much of the fedgov is.\n<li>You&#8217;ve probably already heard that Brazil&#8217;s new president Jair Bolsonaro plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6538075\/Brazils-president-elect-vows-loosen-gun-laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">enable all non-criminal citizens to bear arms<\/a>. Good. But how does that mesh with the newly elected governor of Rio&#8217;s plan to have cops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/law-and-policy\/license-to-kill-policing-to-get-a-trial-run-in-rio-de-janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">shoot all non-cops seen carrying rifles<\/a>? (H\/T M)\n<li>Eric Peters says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetersautos.com\/2018\/12\/31\/happy-de-platforming\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Happy De-Platforming!&#8221;<\/a> and generally notes the weirdly Soviet state of social media today.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/midweek-links-100\/\">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":[7,8,11,12,15,18,19,20,25,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40544","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=40544"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40558,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40544\/revisions\/40558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}