{"id":41666,"date":"2019-07-16T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41666"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T19:36:48","slug":"tuesday-links-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/tuesday-links-140\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>ADDED: Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who choked Eric Garner to death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/07\/16\/justice-department-not-bring-charges-death-eric-garner\/1741169001\/\" target=\"_blank\">won&#8217;t be prosecuted<\/a> by the feds, either. This was a personal decision by Atty Gen William Barr.\n<li>Private business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/jul\/15\/private-sector-can-deal-with-climate-related-probl\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t need more laws and regulations<\/a> to deal with pollution.\n<li>Peter Thiel (who knows something about the CIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomoutpost.com\/peter-thiel-palantir-cia-backed-tech-giant-thats-sifting-sorting-info-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">being rather cozy with it<\/a>), sez the CIA and FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/07\/15\/peter_thiel_fbi_cia_should_investigate_google_for_possibly_aiding_chinese_military.html\" target=\"_blank\">should investigate Google<\/a>. Maybe somebody should investigate the FBI, the CIA, and pseudo-libertarian agent of the uber-state Thiel.\n<li>Just out yesterday: Five good habits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/social-issues\/doing-these-five-things-could-decrease-your-risk-of-alzheimers-by-60-percent-new-study-shows\/2019\/07\/14\/a4b2f82c-a4e4-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">to dramatically reduce your chances of dementia<\/a> (even if you&#8217;re genetically predisposed).\n<li>If you&#8217;ve wondered about the latest SJW flap (over at the august and uber-PC <em>New Republic<\/em>, yet!), JDZ at Never Yet Melted, managed to find and preserve <a href=\"https:\/\/neveryetmelted.com\/2019\/07\/15\/new-republic-pulled-gay-buttigieg-slam-piece-my-mayor-pete-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">the entire &#8220;disappeared&#8221; article<\/a>. (I quit about halfway through, but I&#8217;m glad somebody saved it from the memory hole.)\n<li>How bureaucrats ruin everything, <a href=\"https:\/\/issuesinsights.com\/2019\/07\/15\/how-bureaucrats-ruin-everything-from-dishwashers-to-gas-cans-to-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">from gas cans to cars<\/a>.\n<li>Amid all the creepy-bad news, it&#8217;s good to hear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/50-universities-now-earn-fires-highest-rating-for-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 universities now earn FIRE&#8217;s highest rating<\/a> for free speech.\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/i-went-socialism-conference-here-are-my-6-observations\" target=\"_blank\">ain&#8217;t your grandpa&#8217;s socialism<\/a>. Or perhaps I should say <em>my<\/em> grandpa&#8217;s socialism, since mine was an actual, for real socialist.\n<li>Yet another transgender athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/07\/16\/transgender-weightlifter-hubbard-two-gold-medals-pacific-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">whups the biological women<\/a> in competition.\n<li>Uh oh. The literati have <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2019\/08\/the-last-frontier\/\" target=\"_blank\">discovered desert hermits<\/a>.\n<li>You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/you-already-have-what-youre-looking-for\/\" target=\"_blank\">already have<\/a> what you&#8217;re looking for. (A Buddhist perspective.)\n<li>Too tired <a href=\"https:\/\/katswenski.com\/comics\/behind-the-gifs\/ultimate-ball-throw\" target=\"_blank\">to play fetch<\/a> for the dog. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Private business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/jul\/15\/private-sector-can-deal-with-climate-related-probl\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t need more laws and regulations<\/a> to deal with pollution.\n<li>Peter Thiel (who knows something about the CIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomoutpost.com\/peter-thiel-palantir-cia-backed-tech-giant-thats-sifting-sorting-info-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">being rather cozy with it<\/a>), sez the CIA and FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/07\/15\/peter_thiel_fbi_cia_should_investigate_google_for_possibly_aiding_chinese_military.html\" target=\"_blank\">should investigate Google<\/a>. Maybe somebody should investigate the FBI, the CIA, and pseudo-libertarian agent of the uber-state Thiel.\n<li>Just out yesterday: Five good habits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/social-issues\/doing-these-five-things-could-decrease-your-risk-of-alzheimers-by-60-percent-new-study-shows\/2019\/07\/14\/a4b2f82c-a4e4-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">to dramatically reduce your chances of dementia<\/a> (even if you&#8217;re genetically predisposed).\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/tuesday-links-140\/\">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":[6,7,8,9,11,13,18,19,23,27,28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","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\/41666","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=41666"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41684,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41666\/revisions\/41684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}