• WaPo Uses Photo of McCain with Nazi to Praise His ‘Human Rights’ Work (FAIR) McCain had a long history of photo-ops with monsters and terrorists while he tried to promulgate a neoliberal foreign policy.
• The time has come to nationalise auditing (Tax Research UK) It’s a proposal for the UK, but the idea has merit everywhere.
• Officers Lose Their Evidence After Turning A Medical Emergency Call Into A Warrantless Search Party (Techdirt) Law enforcement screws up basic rules of search and seizure because they want to.
• McCain’s funeral was a disgusting exercise in historical revisionism (The Unbalanced Evolution of Homo Sapiens) Yeah, pretty much. The DC NPR stations was literally carrying the service live. I am sick of the hagiography.
• New Study Finds That NCLB Got Small and Diminishing Returns (Diane Ravitch) No Child Left Behind is a disaster, and it was designed to be: School privatization is its end goal.

My favorite song of Paul Simon, his paean to cynicism and detachment, Kodachrome: