{"id":40836,"date":"2019-01-26T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T22:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40836"},"modified":"2019-01-26T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T00:38:06","slug":"weekend-links-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/26\/weekend-links-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>New York state finally <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/01\/25\/new-york-nypd-police-rape-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">makes it illegal<\/a> for cops to rape people in their custody. Too late for &#8220;Anna Chambers,&#8221; though &#8212; the 18-year-old who dared defy their morally and legally corrupt system.\n<li>The devoutly anti-gun <em>Business Insider<\/em> suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/truckers-may-be-able-to-carry-concealed-weapons-across-state-lines-2019-1\" target=\"_blank\">likes concealed carry reciprocity<\/a> when it&#8217;s viewed as a way for interstate truckers to protect themselves. (But why didn&#8217;t the R&#8217;s push this legislation through in 2017-18 when they controlled both houses and had a real chance?)\n<li>And here you thought opening a lemonade stand was a crime! Try <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/innocent-child-harassed-threatened-by-cops-for-shoveling-snow-without-a-permit\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoveling your Grandma&#8217;s driveway<\/a> without a permit. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>But speaking of <em>real<\/em> crimes, three clients\/accomplices of evil serial SWATter Tyler Barriss <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2019\/01\/three-charged-for-working-with-serial-swatter\/\" target=\"_blank\">have been charged<\/a> in federal court. May they be separated from decent human beings for a long, long time. (And yes, cops who turn up ready to murder people, driven by no real evidence, should go away, too.)\n<li>Is there any group of racists <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/01\/25\/racists-nyt-isnt-sympathetic-white-racists\/\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>New York Times<\/em> doesn&#8217;t love<\/a>? Oh yeah, there&#8217;s that one &#8230;\n<li>Thomas Merton: <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/can-a-vow-of-silence-last-forever-the-paradox-of-thomas-merton\" target=\"_blank\">Taking a vow of silence<\/a> in a noisy and chaotic world.\n<li>Six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/slow-cooking-recipes-for-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">manly crockpot recipes<\/a>, beginner level and a notch or three above.\n<li>I can&#8217;t speak to the quality of the reportage or the justice involved, but the headline may be the second-best ever: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaselzippers.us\/409342-radical-hippie-dwarf-sentenced-to-27-years-in-prison-for-bomb-outside-colorado-police-station\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Radical hippie dwarf sentenced to 27 years<\/a> &#8230;&#8221;*\n<li>Jules Feiffer, the wondrously neurotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/279314\/jules-feiffer-90-years\" target=\"_blank\">cartoon chronicler<\/a> of the 1960s, turns 90 and draws the story of how he created his famously intellectual dancer. (I think you hadda be there to really get it.)\n<li>Iowahawk and SixStringTweets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lj7IhH1YiIM\" target=\"_blank\">collaborate on a good old 1930s-style union worker protest song<\/a>. It&#8217;s in (dubious) support of <a href=\"https:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2019\/01\/26\/karma-visited-buzzfeed-huffpo-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tragically laid off opinion workers<\/a> of HuffPo and BuzzFeed. (H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/01\/a-peak-moment-in-the-history-of-the-internet.php\" target=\"_blank\">PowerLine Blog<\/a>.\n<li>A cool glimpse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/narratively.com\/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand\/\" target=\"_blank\">history of the Principality of Sealand<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* The best-ever also involved a dwarf. Which I assume is entirely coincidental. And it was a fictional headline on fictional tabloid and the author had a whole book to work up to it. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The devoutly anti-gun <em>Business Insider<\/em> suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/truckers-may-be-able-to-carry-concealed-weapons-across-state-lines-2019-1\" target=\"_blank\">likes concealed carry reciprocity<\/a> when it&#8217;s viewed as a way for interstate truckers to protect themselves. (But why didn&#8217;t the R&#8217;s push this legislation through in 2017-18 when they controlled both houses and had a real chance?)\n<li>And here you thought opening a lemonade stand was a crime! Try <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/innocent-child-harassed-threatened-by-cops-for-shoveling-snow-without-a-permit\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoveling your Grandma&#8217;s driveway<\/a> without a permit. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>Thomas Merton: <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/can-a-vow-of-silence-last-forever-the-paradox-of-thomas-merton\" target=\"_blank\">Taking a vow of silence<\/a> in a noisy and chaotic world.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/26\/weekend-links-121\/\">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":[7,12,16,18,19,23,24,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-resistance","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40836","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=40836"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40854,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40836\/revisions\/40854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}