• The Republicans want another super-committee (Charlie Pierce), because that way, the voters cannot figure out just who did them like a drunk sorority girl.
• Read this, “The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to ‘The Office’. (Venkatesh G. Rao) An excellent dissection of how businesses are petri dishes for psychopaths.
• TPP pact requires regulated financing  (Bangkok  Post) important.  The rest of the world is beginning to see the horrors of a hyper-financialized economic regime.
• Fact: the NSA gets negligible intel from Americans’ metadata. So end collection (The Guardian) file under, “Well, duh”.

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