{"id":176040,"date":"2020-09-21T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/21\/linkage-22\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:17:00","slug":"linkage-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/21\/linkage-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-u-s-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-confirms-a-pattern-of-age-discrimination-at-ibm\">The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM<\/a> (ProPublica) So, the obscenely paid senior execs at IBM broke the law, and did so in a way where it was on the permanent record, and where IBM would be liable for punitive damages and fines, because, they are so smart that they deserve the money.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanchi\/article\/PIIS2352-4642(20)30306-0\/fulltext\">The pandemic paused the US school-to-prison pipeline: potential lessons learned<\/a> (<i>The Lancet Child &amp; Adolescent Health<\/i>) Fewer children are getting expelled, arrested, and beat up by school resource officers, and there is no increase in crime.&nbsp; Imagine that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/europe-s-refugee-disaster-merkel-losing-her-patience-with-lack-of-eu-solidarity-a-2a13fc6c-3fc3-4d86-9eb7-70f9c1b49ef0\">Europe&#8217;s Refugee Disaster: Merkel Losing Her Patience with Lack of EU Solidarity<\/a> (<i>DER SPIEGEL<\/i>) What she calls a, &#8220;Lack of EU Solidarity,&#8221; I call, &#8220;An unwillingness to capitulate to German hegemony.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/09\/17\/north-carolina-nurses-union-hca-healthcare\/\">North Carolina Nurses Win Union in Landslide After Bitter Opposition<\/a> (<i>The Intercept<\/i>) I&#8217;m not sure why labor has become more militant and more effective over the past year, but it is a welcome change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> From The Who&#8217;s latest album.  Not my favorite song of theirs, but definitely The Who, and not just Pete Townshend: <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpKhGNaiS6c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM (ProPublica) So, the obscenely paid senior execs at IBM broke the law, and did so in a way where it was on the permanent record, and where IBM would be liable for punitive damages and fines, because, they are so smart &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-176040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176040"}],"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=176040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}