{"id":5404,"date":"2011-04-27T07:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2011-04-27T07:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:44:37","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/wednesday-miscellany-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So. Obama, under pressure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-releases-birth-certificate-2011-4\" target=\"_blank\">finally releases The Birth Certificate<\/a>. Such a relief. Now we can be sure the president isn&#8217;t violating the Constitution.\n<li>Yesterday Radley Balko linked to this article about <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2011\/04\/patrick-pit-bull-garbage-chute.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick the miracle dog<\/a>. You really have to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahscares.org\/showarchive.asp?id=772\" target=\"_blank\">photos here<\/a> to get just how huge a miracle Patrick&#8217;s survival is. Warning: If you have a tender heart or an easily upset stomach, you might not <i>want<\/i> to view them.\n<li>Here&#8217;s a perfect example of <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2011\/02\/minneapolis-woman-charged-with-animal-cruelty-for-trying-to-ship-a-puppy-in-a-sealed-box-asks-to-hav.html\" target=\"_blank\">the entitlement mentality.<\/a> Fortunately, this idiot, who actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/02\/10\/stacey-champion-mailed-puppy_n_821256.html\" target=\"_blank\">tried to get a refund<\/a> from the post office, did not get either her postage <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2011\/02\/puppy-nearly-sent-through-the-mail-has-a-new-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">or her puppy<\/a> back.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-504083_162-20056479-504083.html\" target=\"_blank\">speaking of really dumb criminals<\/a> &#8230;\n<li>Amen, Mark Oppenheimer. Really. Why are so many Americans infatuated with the doings of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2292078\/\" target=\"_blank\">clan of inbred statist parasites<\/a>? (Sez the anarcho-American who can, if given a glass of wine, name them all in reverse order back to Richard III and knows all six of Henry VIII&#8217;s wives.)\n<li>Rumspringa. Dana mentioned this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5455572\" target=\"_blank\">very humane and useful concept<\/a> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/04\/25\/the-rapture-redux\/#comment-8307\">recent comment section<\/a>. I had never heard of it. But I agree, it makes total sense.\n<li>Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-responds-to-location-scandal-2011-4\" target=\"_blank\">finally comes up with some answers<\/a> about their iSpy devices. Not great answers, but answers. Google has yet to say much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/04\/22\/google_android_privacy_concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\">about Android&#8217;s similar capabilities<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.) Sigh. Privacy. Is it really only for troglodytes? (ADDED: More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/04\/what-does-your-phone-know-about-you-more-than-you-think\/237786\/\" target=\"_blank\">food for thought<\/a> from a user&#8217;s perspective on the emerging field of phone forensics.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And thank you for intelligent, tolerant, and often darned funny comments on Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/04\/25\/the-rapture-redux\/\">Rapture post<\/a>. Occasionally I feel compelled (really compelled) to write something that wisdom says I really shouldn&#8217;t post here &#8212; something that&#8217;s too personal or that might egregiously offend. I post such pieces with trepidation, figuring I&#8217;m bound to get barbecued in the comments. Then the responses always turn out to be among the best. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Obama, under pressure, finally releases The Birth Certificate. Such a relief. Now we can be sure the president isn&#8217;t violating the Constitution. Yesterday Radley Balko linked to this article about Patrick the miracle dog. You really have to see the photos here to get just how huge a miracle Patrick&#8217;s survival is. Warning: If you have a tender heart or an easily upset stomach, you might not want to view them. Here&#8217;s a perfect example of the entitlement mentality. Fortunately, this idiot, who actually tried to get a refund from the post office, did not get either her postage&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/wednesday-miscellany-10\/\">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":[8,11,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","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\/5404","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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}