{"id":8199,"date":"2011-12-13T02:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T09:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2011-12-13T02:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T09:52:40","slug":"tuesday-miscellany-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/tuesday-miscellany-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Even lab rats, it seems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/12\/09\/study-shows-lab-rats-would-rather-free-a-friend-than-eat-chocolate\/\" target=\"_blank\">have empathy<\/a>. Now, if only government agents could be raised to that level.\n<li>I had no idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/barbara-mossberg\/emily-dickinson-birthday_b_1140653.html?ref=books&#038;ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\">my second favorite poem<\/a> (and the one I most totally identify with) had such universal appeal.\n<li>Only a government could manage to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/norway-butter-2011-12\" target=\"_blank\">a butter crisis<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2011\/12\/12\/an_interview_with_victor_trader_vic_sperandeo_99414.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The best way to understand the Euro Crisis is to get a DVD of &#8220;Animal House&#8221; starring John Belushi.&#8221;<\/a> Snort!\n<li>Open letter to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/FORUM\/viewtopic.php?f=3&#038;t=103\" target=\"_blank\">professorial tax eaters<\/a> from Michael and Debra Jean Dean.\n<li>The average household has a post-crash <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/the_typical_us_piggy_bank_is_lighter_obCOfHGd6H3BSUFRiWyqLP#ixzz1g94yOhcd\" target=\"_blank\">net worth of nearly $500,000???<\/a> Are you kidding? Where do I sign up to join the average class?\n<li>The &#8220;I, Pencil&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/impractical-cheeseburger\/\" target=\"_blank\">of food<\/a>. (And apparently the writer never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econlib.org\/library\/Essays\/rdPncl1.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I, Pencil&#8221;<\/a> until somebody mentioned it in the comment section of his piece.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even lab rats, it seems, have empathy. Now, if only government agents could be raised to that level. I had no idea that my second favorite poem (and the one I most totally identify with) had such universal appeal. Only a government could manage to create a butter crisis. &#8220;The best way to understand the Euro Crisis is to get a DVD of &#8220;Animal House&#8221; starring John Belushi.&#8221; Snort! Open letter to some professorial tax eaters from Michael and Debra Jean Dean. The average household has a post-crash net worth of nearly $500,000??? Are you kidding? Where do I sign&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/tuesday-miscellany-15\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[2,11,18,19,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-practical-freedom","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","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=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}