• A Top Goldman Banker Raised Ethics Concerns. Then He Was Gone. (New York Times) The vampire squid abides.
• The Myth That Crime Rises as Prisons Shrink (Governing) Our carceral state does not work.
• Tesla: What’s Really Going on, on the Plant Floor (IndustryWeek) The technical term is “Sh%$-Show”.
• Economists Should Stop Defending Milton Friedman’s Pseudo-science (Evonomics) The author agues that the economist does not understand science, the history of science, or the game of pool.
• Revolving Doors and Regulatory Capture |  (naked capitalism) This does explain why the patent office sucks.
• How a Ragtag Group of Oregon Locals Took On the Biggest Chemical Companies in World — and Won (The Intercept) Local activists ban aerial spraying.
• ‘Vegan Brisket’ Causes Barbecue Backlash on Twitter (Maxim) Twitter:  Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.
• Cave Diver Vernon Unsworth Sues Elon Muskt (Popehat) “If aliens grabbed some rando popped-collar douchebro off of a frathouse roof, Uplifted his brain, and handed him a billion dollars, they’d wind up with Elon Musk.”
• Russia reveals the MH17 ‘smoking gun’ (Asia Times) Russia is claiming that the serials on Buk missile that shows that it was delivered to the Ukraine in the mid 1980s. Pass the popcorn.
• Reimagining of Schrödinger’s cat breaks quantum mechanics — and stumps physicists (Nature) Quantum mechanics, bitches, it just ……… Whatever.
• SEC: Citigroup Ran a Secret, Unregistered Stock Exchange for More than Three Years (Wall Street on Parade) Banana republic alert.
• Funny Bit of Full Circle Nonsense (Facebook) It turns out that Brett Kavanaugh’s best bud, Mark Judge, also covered for a pedophile priest who served for many years at Georgetown Prep.

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