{"id":4690,"date":"2011-03-16T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2011-03-16T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:18:55","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/wednesday-miscellany-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Angry man pours gasoline on himself. Police arrive. One guess: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110316\/ap_on_re_us\/us_stun_gun_immolation\" target=\"_blank\">What does a genius cop do?<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to P.T.)\n<li>Intelligent, up-to-date discussion of the Japanese nuclear plant <a href=\"http:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=28273.0\" target=\"_blank\">at The Mental Militia Forums<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to S.)\n<li>An era has truly ended. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-owsley-stanley-20110315,0,3733346.story\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Owsley Stanley, III<\/a> is dead. For a brief, shining time, Purple Owsley was the holy grail of psychedelics. Oh yeah, and there was that band he was involved with, too.\n<li>Oh lord. You know I&#8217;m for creators&#8217; rights. But the government version <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31921_3-20043421-281.html\" target=\"_blank\">is getting crazier and more Draconian<\/a> by the day. Absurd. Government by and for mega-corps.\n<li>In what sort of country does the government have the authority to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/16\/uk-usa-security-travel-idUSLNE72F05P20110316\" target=\"_blank\">order airlines to check luggage for free<\/a> and grant special privileges to government-certified travelers while the rest of the flying population continues to be subjected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">TSA\/Rape-o-Scan &#8220;math errors&#8221;<\/a>? Oh yes, a country where &#8220;free-market capitalism&#8221; runs rampant. Snark snark.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freekibble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freekibble.<\/a> Special reason to go there today. (UPDATE: It&#8217;s always worthwhile going to Freekibble. But the day I posted this they were donating all their kibble to animal-rescue work in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry man pours gasoline on himself. Police arrive. One guess: What does a genius cop do? (Tip o&#8217; hat to P.T.) Intelligent, up-to-date discussion of the Japanese nuclear plant at The Mental Militia Forums. (Tip o&#8217; hat to S.) An era has truly ended. Augustus Owsley Stanley, III is dead. For a brief, shining time, Purple Owsley was the holy grail of psychedelics. Oh yeah, and there was that band he was involved with, too. Oh lord. You know I&#8217;m for creators&#8217; rights. But the government version is getting crazier and more Draconian by the day. Absurd. Government by and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/wednesday-miscellany-7\/\">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":[8,11,19,23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","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=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}