• Lands’ End sued by Delta Air Lines employees who claim uniforms cause health problems (Madison.com) “Testing of the employees’ uniforms found several heavy metals and chemicals present above safe levels, including mercury, formaldehyde, fluorine and chromium, the lawsuit claims.” Capitalism at it’s finest.
• What Poland Has to Hide About the Origins of World War II (Strategic Culture) By this account, the Polish government was Hitler’s biggest supporter.
• Vulture feces disrupting CBP communications on US-Mexico border (Quartz) This is both real and a strong metaphor.
• Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Professors’ Conflicts of Interest (ProPublica) The news org launches a way for people to blow the whistle on corrupt academics.
• How New York’s Bagel Union Took on the Mob (Grupstreet) Unfortunately, they ended up losing to Lenders, which is why it is so difficult to find a decent bagel.
• Answering the question that won me the Ig Nobel prize: Are cats liquid? (The Conversation) A study on the rheology of cats.
• William Barr: The Carl Schmitt of Our Time (The New York Review of Books) FYI, Carl Schmitt was the author of Nazi jurisprudence, such as it was.
• SIGAR inspector general John Spoko tells Congress the war in Afghanistan plagued by ‘mendacity’ and lies (Washington Post) “U.S. officials have routinely lied to the public during the 18-year war.”

I love the way that this scene is composed. It’s like a Utagawa Hiroshige print: