• San Diego Hooters Refuse To Serve Mayor Bob Filner TPM LiveWire
• Snowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11 The Hill
• Walmart’s big lie: No, it doesn’t create jobs! Salon.com
• Political Corruption as Duplicitous Exclusion  American Political Science Association  (PDF)  Much more interesting than the title sounds.
• The American Jewish Way of Death The Forward
• NSA revelations remind me of Cold War Romania USA Today 

From Paul Jamiol

• Obamacare months behind in testing IT data security: government | Reuters (Reuters)
• Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks (Hilarious, H/t DC @ the Stellar Parthenon BBS)
• The contractor who approved the Keystone pipeline is now being investigated for conflicts of interest (The Hill) Yes, moving core governmental functions to private contractors works so well.

Cat shark justifies all of our technology!

• Sarah Stillman: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture (The New Yorker)
• Natural gas fracker gets lifelong gag order against children (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Why journalism should be viewed as a trade, not a profession (Gawker) Old but worth the read.
• Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post (Washington Post) Just a link, because I have nothing useful to add.

Cats and water:

Trader Describes How Dishonesty Pays in Finance, Big Time (Naked Capitalism)
Woman wins $18.6 lawsuit against Equifax, who refused to correct clear and obvious errors in her credit report (Oregonian)
Germany ends spy pact with US and UK after Snowden (BBC)
Colorado attorney turned whistle-blower alleges foreclosure abuses (The Denver Post)

Adam Smith was apparently a dirty pinko:

H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.

• Even HarvarIf Even Harvard’s Own Law Firm is More Loyal to Bain, How Can You Get Good Legal Advice? (Naked Capitalism)
• If you really want to understand what’s going on here, the Austrian you need to read isn’t Friedrich Hayek or Ludwig von Mises, it’s Sigmund Freud. (Paul Krugman on why the austerity fetishists continue to ignore what is actually going on in the real world)
• The completely bogus shortage of technical people that requires us to expand H1B and related programs? (Business Insider)
• The U.S. International Trade Commission takes baby steps against patent trolls. (Daily Tech)

Retta on stereotypes on Conan:

• It has been reported that Cumulus Media, the 2^nd largest radio conglomerate in America, will not renew their contracts with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Oh please make this happen. (Politico)
• Louisiana police are arresting people under an anti-sodomy law declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court a decade ago.  (Insert Louisiana joke here) (Think Progress)
• Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash. Least surprising news of the day. (Wired.com)
• Robert Khuzami, the former chief of enforcement at the SEC has, just joined a major Wall Street Lawfirm for some serious bank.  Back end bribery.  (POGO)

Pic of the day:  Why conservatives hate New York City Bike Share:

• Why Eliot Spitzer must win the race for NYC Comptroller. (Hint: Unprecedented disclosures from private equity firms)
• Glenn Greenwald unloads on the defeat of NSA limits in Congress.
• Senate Democrats Ready Letter Urging Yellen as Fed Chief. (Reuters)  Hating on Larry Summers.
• Scandal plagued East Ramopo School Board.  (FalseMessiah.com)  Seems out of my normal coverage, but this is what happens when religious extremist (Orthodox Jewish) voters take over a public school board and have no interest in public education: they loot it for the benefit of religious schools

H/t Naked Capitalism for the pic.

• This is Joseph. He is a well known commodity forecaster. (Biblical commodities hedging from FT)
• The next financial weapon of mass destruction. (Reuters)
• PA Republican GOP Chair admits that voter ID is for partisan advantage. (TPM)
• No, the Komodo Dragon does not have a particularly dirty mouth. (NatGeo)

Another thought on the Trayvon Martin murder:

H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.