{"id":175784,"date":"2020-11-30T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/30\/linkage-12\/"},"modified":"2020-11-30T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:03:00","slug":"linkage-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/30\/linkage-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johntreed.com\/blogs\/john-t-reed-s-blog-about-military-matters\/61085187-is-military-integrity-a-contradiction-in-terms-part-1\">Is military integrity a contradiction in terms?<\/a> (<i>John T. Reed<\/i>) A veteran of the military on the hypocrisy of the &#8220;Go along to get along&#8221; ethos of the military.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/950908\/obama-pretender\">Obama the pretender<\/a> (<i>The Week<\/i>)&nbsp;  A review of Obama&#8217;s book, and the money quote is at the end, &#8220;Obama had  a golden opportunity to knit the country back together after a  disastrous Republican presidency and a brief moment of Wall Street  helplessness. He didn&#8217;t do so because he couldn&#8217;t stomach the radical  action necessary to heal the nation&#8217;s wounds and repair the social  contract, and instead invented a lot of excuses why he had to sit on his  hands and do nothing. The name for such a person is a coward.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/amp\/news\/devil-horns-meet-sutras-in-taiwan-s-buddhist-death-metal-band-01606360205\">Devil horns meet sutras in Taiwan&#8217;s Buddhist death metal band<\/a> (<i>Barrons<\/i>) They set Buddhist chants and prayers to death metal, and Buddhists are chill as f%$# about it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2020\/11\/john-carpenter-apocalyptic-filmmaker\/\">John Carpenter, Apocalyptic Filmmaker<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) A paean to director John Carpenter.&nbsp; Much or his oeuvre has become more respected over time, in part because his dystopian vision (<i>They Live<\/i>) has becoming increasingly relevant.&nbsp; (He has also directed two of my top 10 movies)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/11\/30\/how-venture-capitalists-are-deforming-capitalism?\">How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism<\/a> (<i>New Yorker<\/i>) A chronicling of how VC money resembles nothing so much as a Ponzi scheme.&nbsp; The money quote, &#8220;And, eventually, you start to realize: no matter what happens, the V.C.s still end up rich.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/26\/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name\">Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) After years of mocking by tourists, and stolen signs, the Austrian village has changed its name to &#8220;Fugging&#8221;. Also, &#8220;Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Buddhist Death Metal is below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"288\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/video-api.wsj.com\/api-video\/player\/v3\/iframe.html?guid=5436F713-6215-4DB6-9EB6-15DD74A29285\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"512\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is military integrity a contradiction in terms? (John T. Reed) A veteran of the military on the hypocrisy of the &#8220;Go along to get along&#8221; ethos of the military. Obama the pretender (The Week)&nbsp; A review of Obama&#8217;s book, and the money quote is at the end, &#8220;Obama had a golden opportunity to knit the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-175784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}