{"id":7640,"date":"2011-10-20T02:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2011-10-20T02:24:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T09:24:44","slug":"thursday-miscellany-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/thursday-miscellany-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s amazing &#8212; and encouraging &#8212; how many commentators suddenly seem to be realizing that the problem isn&#8217;t &#8220;right&#8221; or &#8220;left&#8221; or even a matter of a system needing &#8220;reform.&#8221; The problem is oligarchy. Tuesday I linked to a very good article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/17\/the_washington_establishments_big_problem_111705.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Bigs.<\/a> Novelist Barry Eisler is among the first <a href=\"http:\/\/barryeisler.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/beneficent-benign-establishments.html\" target=\"_blank\">to come right out and use the proper term.<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to J.)\n<li>That noxious Louisiana law banning second-hand dealers from transacting any business in cash. You may have read about it. Ellendra in the comments points to an article that says it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klfy.com\/story\/15717759\/second-hand-dealer-law\" target=\"_blank\">passed in virtual secrecy<\/a>.\n<li>More on the health miracles of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/US\/Pancreatic-Cancer-Steve-Jobs\/2011\/10\/14\/id\/414542\" target=\"_blank\">an ordinary kitchen spice<\/a>.\n<li>With thanks to H, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonfirearms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">more on the life and death<\/a> of firearms hero and &#8220;justice&#8221; system victim, Al Woodbridge. Unfortunately, this isn&#8217;t a permalink but just a link to the main page of the Oregon Firearms Federation; can&#8217;t say how long it will carry Al&#8217;s story.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204346104576637061152676584.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Your cash for their clunkers.<\/a> Not just another Obama energy favorite in trouble, but a glimpse of an industry of, by, and for government subsidies.\n<li>Finally, for those who don&#8217;t mind occasional bits of &#8220;sick dog&#8221; news, foster-boy had extensive surgery to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/09\/29\/defective-dog-dilemma-and-questions-of-identity\/\">repair his birth defect<\/a> yesterday. He&#8217;s recovering nicely at the vet&#8217;s. She left enough of the sheath so he&#8217;ll retain a &#8220;boy&#8221; look, though she did end up having to (ouch) remove his deformed and non-functional penis. He won&#8217;t be coming back to me after recovery, but I&#8217;ll get to visit him this morning.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing &#8212; and encouraging &#8212; how many commentators suddenly seem to be realizing that the problem isn&#8217;t &#8220;right&#8221; or &#8220;left&#8221; or even a matter of a system needing &#8220;reform.&#8221; The problem is oligarchy. Tuesday I linked to a very good article about The Bigs. Novelist Barry Eisler is among the first to come right out and use the proper term. (Tip o&#8217; hat to J.) That noxious Louisiana law banning second-hand dealers from transacting any business in cash. You may have read about it. Ellendra in the comments points to an article that says it was passed in virtual&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/thursday-miscellany-17\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[8,11,12,13,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","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=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}