{"id":40744,"date":"2019-01-19T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40744"},"modified":"2019-01-19T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:41:16","slug":"random-weekend-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/19\/random-weekend-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Random weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting these links from my sick bed all week. Heaven knows how many of them are still relevant or ever were. But in the name of tab clearing and of rewarding your patience, here they are &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In all the coverage of Jayme Closs&#8217;s escape from her murdering incel captor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-chat\/3719469\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">why isn&#8217;t this aspect of her rescue getting more press<\/a>?\n<li>When I first heard about this, I thought it was some Gwyneth Paltrow-level health fantasy. But apparently it&#8217;s a real: The wealthy old are now able <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2019\/01\/17\/blood-from-the-young-now-on-sale-for-the-old-in-san-francisco-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">to buy they blood of the young<\/a>. Only in select enclaves, of course. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>It just gets worse for doctors. Burnout is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/01\/16\/alarming-burnout-is-making-doctors-want-to-kill-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\">making many want to kill themselves<\/a>. The culprit: The way insurance companies and the government have turned them into electronic data-entry clerks.\n<li>Maybe the &#8220;Gillette hates its customers&#8221; ad has had its 15 minutes of fame. But I expect the repercussions will be long and deep for the company. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/42190\/walsh-5-reasons-why-gillettes-toxic-masculinity-ad-matt-walsh\" target=\"_blank\">the best piece I&#8217;ve read on it<\/a>, from Matt Walsh.\n<li>Good luck, Canadians. The new <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/canada-s-crazy-new-drunk-driving-law-will-make-you-thankful-for-the-4th-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">national &#8220;drunk driving law&#8221;<\/a> allows cops to stop anybody without cause &#8212; or to arrest somebody two hours later even if they were only drinking in their own living room. It seems only tyranny can ensure a solid conviction rate.\n<li>DNA is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kezi.com\/content\/news\/504333132.html\" target=\"_blank\">creating advances in twin studies<\/a> for better understanding of everything from mental illness to how tastebuds work &#8212; and helping cops further refine fingerprinting, voice recognition, and facial recognition. (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJ)\n<li>Pet opiate prescriptions are up, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/health\/opioids-pets-veterinary-medicine-abuse-20190111.html\" target=\"_blank\">who&#8217;s really taking the drugs<\/a>? (My animals never get these medicines because it would require Furrydoc to put me on a state list of suspected drug abusers. The state is paranoid, tyrannical, and cruel.)\n<li>Unlike most tiny-house features, this one&#8217;s long on off-grid practicalities: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/off-grid-tiny-home-arizona\/57779\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Living small in the high desert.&#8221;<\/a> I think the guy&#8217;s a fool for allowing his writer friend to pinpoint his location so precisely, though. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>A Montana UPS driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/01\/18\/ups-driver-saves-dog-icy-pond-montana\/2612640002\/\" target=\"_blank\">saves a dog from an icy pond<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/katswenski.com\/comics\/behind-the-gifs\/no-pouncing\" target=\"_blank\">No pouncing<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Thief-tastes-bitter-failure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Thief-tastes-bitter-failure-425x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Thief-tastes-bitter-failure-425x800.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Thief-tastes-bitter-failure-239x450.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Thief-tastes-bitter-failure.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting these links from my sick bed all week. Heaven knows how many of them are still relevant or ever were. But in the name of tab clearing and of rewarding your patience, here they are &#8230; In all the coverage of Jayme Closs&#8217;s escape from her murdering incel captor, why isn&#8217;t this aspect of her rescue getting more press? When I first heard about this, I thought it was some Gwyneth Paltrow-level health fantasy. But apparently it&#8217;s a real: The wealthy old are now able to buy they blood of the young. Only in select enclaves, of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/19\/random-weekend-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random 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":[7,8,12,13,16,18,19,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-off-grid","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\/40744","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=40744"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40763,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40744\/revisions\/40763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}