{"id":41441,"date":"2019-05-21T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41441"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:29:07","slug":"tuesday-links-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/tuesday-links-137\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few links for a change. Some are new, a few I&#8217;ve been saving for you &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So-called Modern Monetary Theory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/modern-monetary-theory-latin-america-by-sebastian-edwards-2019-05\" target=\"_blank\">will be a Modern Monetary Disaster<\/a>, as anybody beyond the pink unicorn stage of development can see.\n<li>Speaking of which, the NYT reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/17\/world\/americas\/venezuela-economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela&#8217;s inflation is now worse than Zimbabwe&#8217;s<\/a>. They still can&#8217;t bring themselves to use the &#8220;S&#8221; word, though they admit that the &#8220;economic policies&#8221; of Chavez and Maduro <em>may<\/em> have something to do with the problem.\n<li>John Wick Part III, aka <em>Parabellum<\/em> was released last Friday. Seems everybody, including <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-features\/john-wick-the-last-great-american-action-movie-franchise-832310\/\" target=\"_blank\">has high praise<\/a>. Seen it yet?\n<li>CNN is correct: The new model of SAT scoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/18\/opinions\/the-dangerous-idea-lurking-behind-the-new-sat-score-yang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">is a PC monstrosity<\/a>. But CNN being CNN, they&#8217;re right for all the wrong reasons. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifezette.com\/2019\/05\/sats-adversity-score-risks-introducing-more-bias-to-student-admission-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\">LifeZette&#8217;s more rational view<\/a>.\n<li>Glenn Harlan Reynolds calls Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/twitter-virus-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">a virus of the mind<\/a>.\n<li>Big Brother <a href=\"https:\/\/appellatesquawk.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/18\/big-brother-remembers-your-face\/\" target=\"_blank\">remembers your face<\/a>. (Parts of this are weird and funny.)\n<li>San Francisco Authoritah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/18\/opinions\/carmody-journalist-police-raid-press-freedoms-yashar-ali\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks a journalist<\/a> for refusing to reveal his source. Ain&#8217;t it funny how &#8220;liberal&#8221; or &#8220;progressive&#8221; policies always end up being top-down authoritarian and scornful of long-established liberties?\n<li>You may have also heard that the famous Grumpy Cat died a few days ago. Borepatch says <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/rest-in-peace-grumpy-cat.html\" target=\"_blank\">it was a conspiracy<\/a> &#8230; and you-know-who was behind it. (She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/grumpy-cat-meme-dead-responses\/\" target=\"_blank\">only seven years old<\/a> &#8212; and who knew she was a she?).\n<li>And speaking of the unusual dead, what about <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/the-curious-case-of-the-bog-bodies\" target=\"_blank\">the curious case of the bog bodies<\/a>?\n<li>My Finnish neighbor tells me that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mic.com\/articles\/169140\/the-finnish-word-kalsarikannit-gives-new-life-to-your-routine-weekend-plans\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Kalsarikannit&#8221;<\/a> is the latest reason her notoriously dour countrymen keep getting polled as the happiest people on earth. Um &#8230; I don&#8217;t think so. Still, I&#8217;ll bet <em>your<\/em> country doesn&#8217;t have 50 of its own exclusive emojis.\n<li>Sixty dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/cute-dogs-with-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">with real jobs<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few links for a change. Some are new, a few I&#8217;ve been saving for you &#8230; So-called Modern Monetary Theory will be a Modern Monetary Disaster, as anybody beyond the pink unicorn stage of development can see. Speaking of which, the NYT reports that Venezuela&#8217;s inflation is now worse than Zimbabwe&#8217;s. They still can&#8217;t bring themselves to use the &#8220;S&#8221; word, though they admit that the &#8220;economic policies&#8221; of Chavez and Maduro may have something to do with the problem. John Wick Part III, aka Parabellum was released last Friday. Seems everybody, including Rolling Stone has high praise. Seen&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/tuesday-links-137\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[4,6,7,8,9,13,15,16,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41441","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=41441"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41455,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41441\/revisions\/41455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}