{"id":7760,"date":"2011-11-04T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2011-11-04T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T09:31:00","slug":"friday-follies-and-a-chapter-from-jake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/friday-follies-and-a-chapter-from-jake\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday follies and a chapter from Jake"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theadvisornovel.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/chapter-forty-six.html\" target=\"_blank\">the latest from Jake MacGregor<\/a>. Just one chapter again this week (the cold weather is rough on Jake&#8217;s health). But it&#8217;s one that ties some loose threads.\n<li>Silver on <a href=\"http:\/\/community.mises.org\/silver\/2011\/11\/02\/the-free-rider-fallacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Free Rider Fallacy.&#8221;<\/a> (For the next time one of your dubious friends brings up one of those endless why-liberty-can&#8217;t-work hypotheticals.)\n<li>Sweden. Hey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-why-sweden-refused-to-bail-out-saab-even-though-it-meant-losing-jobs-2011-11\" target=\"_blank\">maybe you could send us some of your government<\/a>. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swedenversusassange.com\/Gender-Politics.html\" target=\"_blank\">on second thought &#8230;<\/a>\n<li>Of course you haven&#8217;t been following the long, drawn-out wedding and Insta-Divorce (TM) of whichever Kardashian that is &#8230; starts with a K, something like that. Me neither. Ahem. And I don&#8217;t read <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> or watch basketball. Still. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/michael_rosenberg\/11\/03\/kardashian.humphries\/?xid=cnnbin\" target=\"_blank\">This is funny.<\/a>\n<li>Okay, I volunteer to be the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/03\/science\/senescent-cells-hasten-aging-but-can-be-purged-mouse-study-suggests.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">non-mouse to try this.<\/a>\n<li>Harold Camping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/family-radio-founder-harold-camping-repents-apologizes-for-false-teachings-59819\/\" target=\"_blank\">apologizes<\/a>. Well, sort of. He may be slightly more sincere than your average <del datetime=\"2011-11-04T01:42:41+00:00\">used-car salesman<\/del> <del datetime=\"2011-11-04T01:42:41+00:00\">televangelist<\/del> <del datetime=\"2011-11-04T01:42:41+00:00\">reality-TV star<\/del> <del datetime=\"2011-11-04T01:47:41+00:00\">psychopathic serial killer<\/del> politician. But still no mention of giving back the money to those poor suckers who sold all their worldly goods and handed it all to him.\n<li>C^2 thought blog readers might like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1791apparel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">1791 Apparel<\/a> (NFI). Yes, it&#8217;s about the Constitution and yes, we know the Constitution was the original big-gov coup. Still &#8230; ya gotta enjoy some of this stuff. To wit:\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/11\/04\/friday-follies-and-a-chapter-from-jake\/winningheartsandminds\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WinningHeartsandMinds.jpg\" alt=\"Two to the heart, one to the mind\" title=\"WinningHeartsandMinds\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WinningHeartsandMinds.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/WinningHeartsandMinds-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from Jake MacGregor. Just one chapter again this week (the cold weather is rough on Jake&#8217;s health). But it&#8217;s one that ties some loose threads. Silver on &#8220;The Free Rider Fallacy.&#8221; (For the next time one of your dubious friends brings up one of those endless why-liberty-can&#8217;t-work hypotheticals.) Sweden. Hey, maybe you could send us some of your government. Well, on second thought &#8230; Of course you haven&#8217;t been following the long, drawn-out wedding and Insta-Divorce (TM) of whichever Kardashian that is &#8230; starts with a K, something like that. Me neither. Ahem. And I don&#8217;t read&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/friday-follies-and-a-chapter-from-jake\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday follies and a chapter from Jake<\/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":[4,11,13,16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","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=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}