{"id":5507,"date":"2011-05-09T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2011-05-09T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:36:11","slug":"monday-miscellany-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/monday-miscellany-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In the Mothers Day spirit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepets.com\/photos\/cute\/interspecies-baby-love-animal-surrogates\/1\" target=\"_blank\">11 Awwww-Inspiring Surrogate Moms<\/a>.\n<li>Mozilla <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2011-05-07\/social-media\/29519892_1_mozilla-firefox-web-browser-internet-piracy\" target=\"_blank\">says &#8220;NO&#8221; to the DHS.<\/a> Wonder how that&#8217;ll work out.\n<li>Good for <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/opinion\/blogs\/city-lights\/article_372641ea-d4e3-58ef-ab71-74a5c6eca84b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Billings <i>Gazette<\/i> readers.<\/a> Boohiss to Best Buy for firing an employee who did the right thing.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/louiswoodhill\/2011\/05\/04\/the-ten-secret-warning-signs-of-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 secret warning signs<\/a> of inflation. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>So what do <i>you<\/i> think <a href=\"http:\/\/dollarcollapse.com\/the-economy\/qe3-and-the-silver-entry-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">happened to silver last week<\/a>? And where&#8217;s silver going from here?\n<li>Torture: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2293043\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Still Stupid, Still Wrong, Still Immoral.&#8221;<\/a> The only thing wrong with Dahlia Lithwick&#8217;s opinion is that she doesn&#8217;t state it emphatically enough.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/2011\/05\/06\/the-emperors-clothes.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Emperors&#8217; Clothes.&#8221;<\/a> A heartrending cry as Pakistanis wake up to their governmental catastrophe, post Bin Laden. Wonder when the U.S. will be smacked with a similar wake up about its own &#8220;security&#8221; guardians? Some year, some decade &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>Radley Balko of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Agitator<\/a> is traipsing around Eastern Europe this month, but guest bloggers are continuing some of his traditions, including Sunday Dog Blogging and (musical) Five-Star Fridays. Dave Krueger posted this video the other day (already known to you who play Grand Theft Auto IV) and I was bowled over:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"367\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/8txk6EhYZKA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the live, in-concert version by the adorable Russian girl whose song it is:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"367\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/tqvLeHlEw0s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/glukozanostra.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial fan site, in English<\/a>. The lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/glukozanostra.com\/lyrics.php#five\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t actually have anything to do with Nazis or war<\/a>. But let&#8217;s not quibble. This is great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Mothers Day spirit: 11 Awwww-Inspiring Surrogate Moms. Mozilla says &#8220;NO&#8221; to the DHS. Wonder how that&#8217;ll work out. Good for Billings Gazette readers. Boohiss to Best Buy for firing an employee who did the right thing. The 10 secret warning signs of inflation. \ud83d\ude42 So what do you think happened to silver last week? And where&#8217;s silver going from here? Torture: &#8220;Still Stupid, Still Wrong, Still Immoral.&#8221; The only thing wrong with Dahlia Lithwick&#8217;s opinion is that she doesn&#8217;t state it emphatically enough. &#8220;The Emperors&#8217; Clothes.&#8221; A heartrending cry as Pakistanis wake up to their governmental catastrophe, post&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/monday-miscellany-35\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[4,8,16,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/5507","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=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}