- Rachel Maddow, the left’s powerhouse on cable, won’t let the Mueller probe go. (Washington Post) I am not the only one to notice.
- Stupid Patent Of The Month: Veripath Patents Following Privacy Laws (Techdirt) We really need to fix our broken IP system.
- Shining a light on presidential libraries — the unrenowned pay-to-play scandal (Opensecrets.org) Yet another form of back-loaded bribery.
- JAB Holdings: Reimann family, who own stake in Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread, admits Nazi past (Washington Post) The wages of sin, huh?
- BofA, Wells Fargo sour on blockchain (American Banker) Not surprising. I’ve yet to see a meaningful real world application beyond crypto currencies, even among the Slashdot crowd.
- Trump’s Financial Statements Are So Full Of Lies That His Accountants Put a Warning Label on Them (Vanity Fair) But instead of covering this, we got phony pee tapes.
- Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion clinics (The Hill) Some policy consequences of Trump.
- The good old days? In many ways, yes (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Note the source. “Less-educated Americans born in the 1960s fare much worse than those born 20 years earlier due to wage changes, shorter life expectancy, and higher medical costs.”
A mashup from just 1 Maddow show of all the Russia references:
1. Block chains are being used for medical record keeping with some success. Also some transaction tracking. I know this of my own knowledge. Crypto currencies are nonsense of course.
2. Sins of the father (and they are German) The comment by the current generation should be considered:
“It is all correct,” family spokesman Peter Harf, who is one of two managing partners of JAB Holdings, told Bild. “Reimann Senior and Reimann Junior were guilty. The two men have passed away, but they actually belonged in prison.”
The two men died in 1954 and 1984, respectively.