{"id":11692,"date":"2010-11-17T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2010-11-17T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T02:21:47","slug":"kwik-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11692","title":{"rendered":"Kwik Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple interesting reads I&#8217;ve been meaning to share lately: The Oct. 25 issue of the <em>New Yorker<\/em> had a great article about one of my biggest pet peeves, leaf blowers.\u00a0  (See related cartoon about blowers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/backyard.html\" >here<\/a>; thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattbors.com\" >Matt<\/a> for sharing his copy of the magazine with me, because he knows how much I hate them.) Only the abstract is freely available online, but if you have a digital subscription, you can find a link to the whole article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/10\/25\/101025fa_fact_friend\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of the story is how a well-to-do California town has become leaf blower hell, and how one couple&#8217;s efforts to do something about it has earned them the animosity of their libertarian neighbors. (Apparently the right to peace and quiet in your own home doesn&#8217;t count as a proper &#8220;freedom.&#8221;). After reading the article to Mr. Slowpoke, he immediately went outside and started raking leaves. With, you know, a good old-fashioned rake. These days, I&#8217;m very tempted to say &#8220;thank you&#8221; to people when I see them raking the neighborly way. Except they&#8217;d probably look at me like I was some kind of weirdo.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth reading, apropos of Joe Miller&#8217;s defeat: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/08\/AR2010110804485.html\" >this column on Alaska as welfare state<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to Adam D. for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple interesting reads I&#8217;ve been meaning to share lately: The Oct. 25 issue of the New Yorker had a great article about one of my biggest pet peeves, leaf blowers.\u00a0  (See related cartoon about blowers here; thanks to Matt for sharing his copy of the magazine with me, because he knows how much [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}