{"id":8810,"date":"2012-01-25T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8810"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:37:37","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/wednesday-miscellany-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It just had to happen eventually, didn&#8217;t it? <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulactionfigures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul action figures<\/a>. I like the man. But seriously, <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/mustntreadlewrockwell.html\" target=\"_blank\">I agree with Joel<\/a>. It&#8217;s getting a little nuts. Okay, maybe the superhero action figure is sorta funny. But since when do free people set up idols to worship?\n<li>The dog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2012\/01\/24\/dog-mans-best-friend-for-over-33000-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">man&#8217;s best friend for more than 33,000 years<\/a>.\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/greenanswers.com\/news\/273773\/duty-police-officer-beats-cat-death-baton-should-he-lose-his-job\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is a &#8220;minor infraction&#8221; I&#8217;d hate to see what serious violence is. But of course, if the cop loses his job over this, some other PD will consider him prime material for their wrong-house-<del datetime=\"2012-01-25T16:02:23+00:00\">puppy<\/del>kittyciding-drug-raiding SWAT team. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)\n<li>I am unacquainted with the art of Mr. Rhymes and know his name only because I love to read about celebrities, even if (and sometimes because) I&#8217;ve never heard of them. But he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120120\/15060817494\/busta-rhymes-backs-megaupload-says-record-labels-are-real-criminals.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">dead-bang right<\/a> about the Megaupload bust.\n<li>Why is it that they take our freedom in big gobbling gulps, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/article\/20120123\/NEWS05\/201230368\/Indiana-Senate-OKs-people-resisting-police-homes?odyssey=mod\" target=\"_blank\">dole it back<\/a> in such tiny, wimpy doses? Hey, Indiana: Free people have a right to resist the state and all its agents &#8212; particularly those who come storming in unannounced. Period. Without a lot of ifs, ands, and butts.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyamerica.com\/earlyamerica\/bookmarks\/henry\/speech.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking of which &#8230;<\/a>\n<li>Oh yeah. Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31921_3-57364330-281\/judge-americans-can-be-forced-to-decrypt-their-laptops\/\" target=\"_blank\">what was left of the Fifth Amendment<\/a> once the NDAA got through with it? You can forget about that now.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally &#8212; marketing for the (very!) soon-to-be-released <i>Hunger Games<\/i> is getting fiendishly (and I mean that literally) clever. Lionsgate has now opened <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolcouture.pn\" target=\"_blank\">CapitalCouture.pn<\/a> &#8212; a site that &#8220;celebrates&#8221; the style and fashion of the games.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t yet know <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;x=0&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;y=0&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=Hunger%20games&#038;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Hunger Games<\/em> trilogy<\/a> don&#8217;t be offput by the shallow, fashion-obsessed site. That&#8217;s the point of the thing. In the books (and the looks-to-be-fantastic movies being made from them), hapless teens from outlying districts are forced to fight to the death in an annual display of subjugation to the all-powerful state of Panem (thus the .pn in the URL, though in reality that belongs to Pitcairn Island). The games are orchestrated in Panem&#8217;s capital city, a vision of future decadence based on Rome of empire days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2012\/01\/19\/hunger-games-katniss-and-peeta-ready-to-set-the-games-on-fire-exclusive-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Costumes are hugely important<\/a> to the games (and become inadvertently vital to the success and survival of Our Heroine, Katniss Everdeen). So I think this is a darned clever way of showcasing them and hyping the movie. Even if it is shallow, ugly, and grotesque &#8212; just like Panem, the capital, and the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just had to happen eventually, didn&#8217;t it? Ron Paul action figures. I like the man. But seriously, I agree with Joel. It&#8217;s getting a little nuts. Okay, maybe the superhero action figure is sorta funny. But since when do free people set up idols to worship? The dog: man&#8217;s best friend for more than 33,000 years. If this is a &#8220;minor infraction&#8221; I&#8217;d hate to see what serious violence is. But of course, if the cop loses his job over this, some other PD will consider him prime material for their wrong-house-puppykittyciding-drug-raiding SWAT team. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/wednesday-miscellany-19\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[4,8,16,23,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810","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=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}