{"id":729,"date":"2010-03-15T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=729"},"modified":"2010-03-15T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:50:07","slug":"monday-miscellany-and-a-small-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/monday-miscellany-and-a-small-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Miscellany (and a small quiz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>HOME!<\/b> Waking up in the tropics, then struggling home through a blinding snowstorm 26 hours later is <i>not fair<\/i>! Not fair <i>at all<\/i>! But thank heaven for heroically dedicated friends; I didn&#8217;t have to drive myself that last crazy six hours.\n<li><b>Why is every mainstream media article about the census<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/87627477.html\" target=\"_blank\">a propaganda piece<\/a> that could have been written by flacks at the Census Bureau? And why does every one of them repeat the lie about &#8220;just 10 questions&#8221;? Sure, there are merely 10 questions for people who live alone, but there are seven additional questions for each other resident &#8212; and each and every one of them too damned nosy. My dogs are getting tired of revealing their personal details. For the record, they&#8217;re all Canine-hyphen-American and they resent having to identify themselves as border collies or pit bull mixes or whatever.\n<li><b>Uh oh. Those long-feared Social Security IOUs<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/14\/social-security-start-cashing-uncle-sams-ious\/\" target=\"_blank\">are coming due<\/a>.\n<li><b>Thomas Cole on &#8220;The Course of Empire.&#8221;<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isu.edu\/~wattron\/OLCole2.html\" target=\"_blank\">These 19th-century paintings<\/a> (first linked from LewRockwell.com last week) may be overdramatized for contemporary tastes. But they sure do tell a plain truth.\n<li><b>Speaking of the census<\/b>, in another one of those &#8220;unbiased&#8221; news stories (in which &#8220;irrational fear&#8221; of the census was promoted only by &#8220;fringe groups&#8221;), I learned the specific figure on the Big FedBux being promised to &#8220;your community&#8221; (e.g. bureaucrats, government-connected do-gooders, etc.) for each person counted: $400. No link to that article, sorry. It was in a print publication. But here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thornwalker.com\/ditch\/censusresist.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Diary of a Census Resister.&#8221;<\/a> (FWIW, most census resistance tales are even less eventful than his.)\n<li><b>Some people don&#8217;t believe it<\/b> when you tell them they probably commit three felonies a day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threefelonies.com\/Typicalfelonies\/tabid\/86\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">But here are some typical felonies<\/a>. And the people who actually committed them.\n<li><b>Free-market medical practice<\/b>. Yes, it still goes on even here in the USSA. In case you missed the link he placed in the comments section last week, here&#8217;s Dr. Jim Brook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/orig7\/brook-j1.html\" target=\"_blank\">great story of his own practice<\/a> in Idaho Falls, Idaho. An average of $37 per visit &#8212; including house calls??? Darn, Dr. Jim, you make me wish I lived in Idaho Falls!\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/mar\/10\/fridge-house-electricity-homeless\" target=\"_blank\">The bad consequences of good intentions<\/b><\/a> in housing codes. Sigh. Although the incidents are more complex than the author paints them (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mv-voice.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=2552\" target=\"_blank\">Like this, for instance<\/a>), it&#8217;s still hard to see the point of making things worse for hard-up people by throwing them out of their homes for code violations.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14666117\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Uh oh, part II.<\/b><\/a> The fedgov announces a plan to &#8220;improve&#8221; broadband Internet service across the USSA. Details are sketchy, but the proposal includes, &#8220;Creating a &#8216;digital literacy corps,&#8217; modeled after AmeriCorps, to help people unfamiliar with the Internet (particularly residents of low-income and minority communities and seniors) learn how to use it.&#8221; Uh &#8230; yeah. So it&#8217;ll now cost $10,000 and six months to teach granny to receive emailed pics of the kidlets instead of a free half hour.\n<li><b>NOW &#8230; WHERE WAS I?<\/b> A free autographed copy of my upcoming book of collected and expanded Hardyville columns to the first person who answers this question: &#8220;What region was I in or what tribe was I visiting when I was in the &#8216;Wayback-Outback&#8217; portion of my recent trip?&#8221; If you didn&#8217;t follow trip posts or if your memory needs refreshing, click on the &#8220;Travels&#8221; archive at the right. Rules are: 1. Only one answer per person; 2. Do not name the country. I&#8217;m looking just for tribe or region &#8212; and I dropped enough hints that somebody&#8217;s bound to get it. Submit your answers as comments on this post.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOME! Waking up in the tropics, then struggling home through a blinding snowstorm 26 hours later is not fair! Not fair at all! But thank heaven for heroically dedicated friends; I didn&#8217;t have to drive myself that last crazy six hours. Why is every mainstream media article about the census a propaganda piece that could have been written by flacks at the Census Bureau? And why does every one of them repeat the lie about &#8220;just 10 questions&#8221;? Sure, there are merely 10 questions for people who live alone, but there are seven additional questions for each other resident &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/monday-miscellany-and-a-small-quiz\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Miscellany (and a small quiz)<\/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":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}