• How Finance Costs Too Much and Fails to Deliver (naked capitalism) Bankers are over paid, over protected, over large, and over here.
• The Myth of Upward Mobility in America (Alternet) It’s the opiate of the masses.
• Exploring a Link Between Drone Strikes and Retaliation (Georgetown Public Policy Review) Drone strikes correlate to increases in terrorism.
• Pixelating and blurring doesn’t work to hide text (Fusion) Recovering pixelated text is easier than you think.
• Reality continues to crumble in the wake of David Bowie’s death (News Hump) “Scientists have concluded that Bowie was in some way integral to the function of what we call normality in ways which they have not yet properly begun to understand, but postulate a hitherto unknown particle called the ‘Bowon’ which helped the universe keep its sh%$ together.”
• When Bill and Hillary Crossed the Picket Line (Jacobin) On their first date they were literally scabbing against a strike on the Yale campus to access to a museum that was closed by the strike.

This is f%$#ing mind boggling: (H/t Charlie for finding it)

Wow.