{"id":8578,"date":"2012-01-09T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T09:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2012-01-09T02:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T09:55:44","slug":"monday-miscellany-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/monday-miscellany-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pretty good WSJ article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203513604577144902274972614.html\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Justice<\/a>.\n<li>And speaking of justice (or the lack thereof), how about facing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2012\/01\/05\/national\/a163259S04.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">20 years in prison<\/a> for feeding whales?\n<li>A businessman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/2011\/1114\/My-top-5-lessons-from-hard-times\/Prepare-to-take-calculated-risks\" target=\"_blank\">top five lessons<\/a> for hard times.\n<li>Thomas Jefferson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-0108-fehrman-jefferson-20120108,0,6146482.story\" target=\"_blank\">and his bible<\/a>.\n<li>A little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/philadelphia-saves-millions-by-decriminalizing-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">citywide sanity<\/a> in the war on drugs.\n<li>But enough good news. Here are a few of the new ways <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5870874\/how-your-privacy-will-be-invaded-in-2012?tag=privacy\" target=\"_blank\">your privacy can be invaded<\/a> this year.\n<li>Could be worse, though. You could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2082165\/Big-Brother-malls-trigger-privacy-row-installing-equipment-spy-shoppers-mobiles.html\" target=\"_blank\">live in the UK<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/01\/04\/new-york-governor-urges-mandatory-dna-samples\/\" target=\"_blank\">Or New York<\/a>.\n<li>Or you could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?hpt=hp_c2#\/video\/us\/2012\/01\/05\/dnt-mn-puppy-suitcase.kttc\" target=\"_blank\">lead a dog&#8217;s life<\/a>. (H\/T PT)\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR who has become a link-locating super-sleuth and a big help in these deadlining days. Several people have sent interesting links or content lately and if I haven&#8217;t used it all (or used it all <i>yet<\/i>) I&#8217;ve been glad to have it and it&#8217;s taken me on some interesting explorations.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty good WSJ article on the Institute for Justice. And speaking of justice (or the lack thereof), how about facing 20 years in prison for feeding whales? A businessman&#8217;s top five lessons for hard times. Thomas Jefferson and his bible. A little citywide sanity in the war on drugs. But enough good news. Here are a few of the new ways your privacy can be invaded this year. Could be worse, though. You could live in the UK. Or New York. Or you could lead a dog&#8217;s life. (H\/T PT) (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR who has become a link-locating&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/monday-miscellany-53\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[8,18,19,23,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","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=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}