{"id":4144,"date":"2011-02-09T03:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T10:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2011-02-09T03:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T10:29:19","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/wednesday-miscellany-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a followup to last November&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/11\/17\/defnding-boundaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Defending Boundaries&#8221;<\/a> (or, as I originally typoed it, &#8220;De<i>find<\/i>ing Boundaries&#8221;).  Will try to have that later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>But today I&#8217;ve accepted an invitation from a friend to go to the Big City. Not just the local Big City with the Wal-Mart (population 10,000 or so), but a <i>real<\/i> big city. Where I get to do something I&#8217;ve never done before &#8212; visit an Ikea store. Since I&#8217;ve always loved Scandinavian furniture, this could be dangerous &#8212; even aside from what friends assure me are the <i>many other<\/i> addictive attractions of Ikea.Send me your best &#8220;resist temptation&#8221; vibes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here are some netly gleanings, beginning with one I need to memorize:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thrift. A reminder: It&#8217;s not about being stingy or tight. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/in-praise-of-thrift-an-old-idea-for-a-new-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">the future and living well<\/a>.\n<li>Why can&#8217;t we end the drug war? There&#8217;s too much money in it, sez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/02\/clinton-legalize-drugs-too-much-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Clueless Ms Clinton<\/a>.\n<li>Radley Balko <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/07\/an-interview-with-stewart-rhod\" target=\"_blank\">interviews Stewart Rhodes.<a\/>\n<li>Here&#8217;s another one that really rang bells. For gays <a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/6846\/wedding_bells_jail_cells\" target=\"_blank\">it shouldn&#8217;t just be about marriage<\/a>, but about questioning the very values underlying marriage and relationships &#8212; and relationships with Authoritah. Anybody who looks at history from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seneca_Falls_Convention\" target=\"_blank\">Seneca Falls<\/a> onward can easily see that winning the vote set the women&#8217;s equality movement back by decades. Everybody said <i>Okay, we&#8217;ve won. Now we can go home.<\/i> I&#8217;ve long thought gays risk doing the same by focusing on getting governmental permission to marry.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.orange.co.uk\/article\/quirkies\/Burglar_left_phone_charging\" target=\"_blank\">Dumb burglar.<\/a>\n<li>I apologize for being a little late with this one (I&#8217;ve been saving it, meaning to comment you know). But the feds&#8217; plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/04\/AR2011020405569.html?hpid=moreheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">give the border states their very own custom &#8220;gun control&#8221;<\/a> has been pushed back.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004A14W54?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B004A14W54\" target=\"_blank\"><i>One Good Dog<\/i><\/a>. One good dog <i>book<\/i> that is. P.T. recommended this novel the other day. I got my hands on it quickly &#8212; and it had me right from the prologue. It&#8217;s the story of a tough dog who never had a break and a tough man who never gave a break to anyone &#8212; until, after a moment of rage, his privileged world fell apart.\n<li>One good dog novel deserves another. I&#8217;m simultaneously reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003AXS51A?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003AXS51A\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Art of Racing in the Rain<\/i><\/a> &#8212; which is about a dog, a race car driver, family, life, death, and the importance of opposable thumbs.\n<li>ADDED: Hm. Maybe the Tea Party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/wire\/sc-dc-0209-patriot-act-20110208,0,1288718.story\" target=\"_blank\">hasn&#8217;t been totally coopted by neocons<\/a> after all.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheers. Now I&#8217;m off to Temptationland. Where there&#8217;s not only an Ikea, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wincofoods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WinCo<\/a> (OMG, the incredible prices on bulk foods!). AND a Trader Joe&#8217;s. I may be doomed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a followup to last November&#8217;s blog &#8220;Defending Boundaries&#8221; (or, as I originally typoed it, &#8220;Definding Boundaries&#8221;). Will try to have that later in the week. But today I&#8217;ve accepted an invitation from a friend to go to the Big City. Not just the local Big City with the Wal-Mart (population 10,000 or so), but a real big city. Where I get to do something I&#8217;ve never done before &#8212; visit an Ikea store. Since I&#8217;ve always loved Scandinavian furniture, this could be dangerous &#8212; even aside from what friends assure me are the many other addictive&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/wednesday-miscellany-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,19,20,26,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-practical-freedom","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}