{"id":9986,"date":"2012-05-07T02:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2012-05-07T02:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:58:35","slug":"monday-miscellany-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/monday-miscellany-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How many federal laws are there? Let us (try to) <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304319804576389601079728920.html\" target=\"_blank\">count the ways<\/a>.\n<li>A rarity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/04\/us\/at-brown-university-stumbling-across-a-rarity-in-the-rare-book-room.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the rare book room<\/a>.\n<li>While I doubt that many readers of this blog want to walk down the street looking <a href=\"http:\/\/cvdazzle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">like this<\/a>, it&#8217;s a brilliant thing that young fashionistas are thinking of avoiding facial-recognition cams. I could picture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0964230488\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0964230488\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy and Cedra<\/a> got up like that.\n<li>I know your heart&#8217;s in the right place, Downsize DC. But if congressthingies have become so irresponsible and depraved that they don&#8217;t bother to read the bills they vote for, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downsizedc.org\/blog\/the-cispa-swindle\" target=\"_blank\">what makes you think<\/a> that <i>writing to the culprits<\/i> and asking them to pass a law requiring themselves to read the bills is the answer???\n<li>Spychips <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2012\/05\/u-s-military-developing-spychips-for-soldiers\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the march<\/a>.\n<li>A bad idea whose time has come: <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/wall-street-journal-dont-trust-the-feds-happiness-index\/\" target=\"_blank\">a &#8220;national happiness index.&#8221;<\/a> Run by the feds.\n<li>But even before the same people who run the inflation and employment indexes get hold of it &#8230; maybe questing for happiness <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304746604577379891905861390.html\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be<\/a>.\n<li>CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/04\/opinion\/stanley-ron-paul\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">says friendly things<\/a> about Ron Paul. Hopeful things, even.\n<li>I&#8217;ll bet most people here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/03\/technology\/personaltech\/how-to-muddy-your-tracks-on-the-internet.html\" target=\"_blank\">already do all this<\/a>. Or practice similar online privacy techniques.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s your dog fix for today. First, the <a href=\"http:\/\/bahhumpug.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/pug-alphabet-z.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pug Alphabet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/05\/07\/monday-miscellany-61\/pug-alphabet-a-z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pug-Alphabet-A-Z-450x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pug Alphabet A-Z\" width=\"450\" height=\"595\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9994\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second, while you&#8217;d have to be completely insane to feed Beneful to your dog (it being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-puppy-dog-place.com\/dog-food-ratings.html\" target=\"_blank\">virtually a non-food<\/a>; here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-puppy-dog-place.com\/dog-food-comparisons.html\" target=\"_blank\">the formula<\/a> used to calculate those results) (And whatever you do, don&#8217;t get furrydoc started on the subject of Beneful unless you want a real earful!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogster.com\/bolz\/beneful-unleashes-digital-doggies-to-brighten-up-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\">what they&#8217;re doing here is pretty cool and amazing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many federal laws are there? Let us (try to) count the ways. A rarity in the rare book room. While I doubt that many readers of this blog want to walk down the street looking like this, it&#8217;s a brilliant thing that young fashionistas are thinking of avoiding facial-recognition cams. I could picture Jeremy and Cedra got up like that. I know your heart&#8217;s in the right place, Downsize DC. But if congressthingies have become so irresponsible and depraved that they don&#8217;t bother to read the bills they vote for, what makes you think that writing to the culprits&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/monday-miscellany-61\/\">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":[4,8,13,18,19,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}