{"id":6119,"date":"2011-06-29T07:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2011-06-29T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:08:36","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/wednesday-miscellany-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Good work up there, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.canoe.ca\/money\/business\/canada\/archives\/2011\/06\/20110628-082526.html\" target=\"_blank\">you Canadians<\/a>! But don&#8217;t you always get a kick out of these statistics on the size of underground economies? Seriously. They know this <i>how<\/i>? (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)\n<li>Remember, when your camera-containing device <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/six-years-in-slam-for-doing-right-thing.html\" target=\"_blank\">gets &#8220;lost&#8221;<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5809847\/police-shooting-video-saved-by-hidden-memory-card-in-witness-mouth\" target=\"_blank\">ever-so-slightly altered<\/a> in police custody, there&#8217;s always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwatch.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to S^2.) Oh, the little people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/wireless\/articles\/20110627\/01020414869\/arizona-police-told-to-search-arrestee-iphones-anti-police-apps.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">are getting so uppity!<\/a>\n<li>You know something will soon fall down and go bust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cnn-money-poll-of-stock-forecasters-2011-6\" target=\"_blank\">when &#8220;experts&#8221; are this confident<\/a> that everything is rosy.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/06\/28\/july_4th_110381.html\" target=\"_blank\">July 4<\/a> by Thomas Sowell.\n<li>Two really good (and coincidentally related) ones from Get Rich Slowly: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/defining-your-financial-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Defining Your Financial Future&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/what-do-you-care-what-other-people-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What Do You Care What Other People Think?&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Is shyness an evolutionary tactic? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/26\/opinion\/sunday\/26shyness.html?_r=3\" target=\"_blank\">So asks the <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a>. They&#8217;re talking more about introversion than actual shyness, though for sure the two go together. And the answer is &#8212; no freaking surprise &#8212; of course.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good work up there, you Canadians! But don&#8217;t you always get a kick out of these statistics on the size of underground economies? Seriously. They know this how? (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.) Remember, when your camera-containing device gets &#8220;lost&#8221; or ever-so-slightly altered in police custody, there&#8217;s always this. (Tip o&#8217; hat to S^2.) Oh, the little people are getting so uppity! You know something will soon fall down and go bust when &#8220;experts&#8221; are this confident that everything is rosy. July 4 by Thomas Sowell. Two really good (and coincidentally related) ones from Get Rich Slowly: &#8220;Defining Your Financial&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/wednesday-miscellany-13\/\">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":[19,20,23,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","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=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}