{"id":9376,"date":"2012-03-12T02:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2012-03-12T02:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:03:40","slug":"monday-miscellany-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/monday-miscellany-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/cei.org\/op-eds-articles\/new-irs-rule-benefits-only-foreign-dictators\" target=\"_blank\">aspect of the dreadful FATCA<\/a> that hasn&#8217;t gotten much coverage.\n<li>From jed in comments: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/03\/homeless-by-choice-how-to-live-for-free-in-america\/254118\/\" target=\"_blank\">homeless by choice<\/a> (and on principle).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203370604577265632205015846.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How to Be Creative.&#8221;<\/a> I don&#8217;t buy the claim that there&#8217;s no such thing as &#8220;creative types&#8221; (OMG, there are indeed creative types). But the rest is surely true. Creativity isn&#8217;t just for artists, writers, and inventors.\n<li>Neat idea: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/culture\/seattle-build-nations-biggest-public-food-forest.html\" target=\"_blank\">an urban food forest<\/a>. Not quite sure, though, how &#8220;free&#8221; it can be.\n<li>A U.S. government soldier <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/us-soldier-accused-killing-16-afghans-including-women\/story?id=15897098\" target=\"_blank\">decides to freelance<\/a>. (ADDED: The story that it was one &#8220;lone nut&#8221; &#8220;going rogue&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/03\/12\/us-afghanistan-civilians-idUSBRE82A02V20120312\" target=\"_blank\">probably isn&#8217;t going to hold up<\/a>.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sojo.net\/blogs\/2012\/03\/09\/gaining-respect-end-times-prophet-harold-camping\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Gaining Respect for End-Times Prophet Harold Camping.&#8221;<\/a> Really.\n<li>A whole site for people who <a href=\"http:\/\/literallyunbelievable.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">believe stuff they saw on <i>The Onion<\/i><\/a>.\n<li>What you surrender when you <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204603004577269910906351598.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">sign an organ-donor card<\/a>. Kinda scary.\n<li>What if everybody charged with a crime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">demanded a jury trial<\/a>?\n<li>No, Mr, Mueller. You don&#8217;t need to check anything. Just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/contributed\/2012-10-09\/fbi-director-i-have-check-see-if-obama-has-right-assassinate-americans-us-soi\" target=\"_blank\">arrest Obama and Holder<\/a>. Among others. (H\/T BW.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s my idea of a lap dog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/03\/12\/monday-miscellany-58\/lapdog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/LapDog.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif -- St. Bernard leaps onto man reclining on sofa\" title=\"LapDog\" width=\"350\" height=\"247\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/LapDog.gif 350w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/LapDog-300x212.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an aspect of the dreadful FATCA that hasn&#8217;t gotten much coverage. From jed in comments: homeless by choice (and on principle). &#8220;How to Be Creative.&#8221; I don&#8217;t buy the claim that there&#8217;s no such thing as &#8220;creative types&#8221; (OMG, there are indeed creative types). But the rest is surely true. Creativity isn&#8217;t just for artists, writers, and inventors. Neat idea: an urban food forest. Not quite sure, though, how &#8220;free&#8221; it can be. A U.S. government soldier decides to freelance. (ADDED: The story that it was one &#8220;lone nut&#8221; &#8220;going rogue&#8221; probably isn&#8217;t going to hold up.) &#8220;Gaining Respect&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/monday-miscellany-58\/\">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":[2,8,13,16,18,19,20,23,30,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-resistance","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376","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=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}