{"id":176584,"date":"2020-05-12T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/12\/linkage-41\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:22:00","slug":"linkage-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/12\/linkage-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/columns-and-blogs\/editorials\/article\/83171-why-two-agents-argue-books-aren-t-essential.html\">Letter to the Editor: Why These Agents Argue Books Aren&#8217;t Essential<\/a>(<i>Publishers Weekly<\/i>) &#8220;The natural endpoint of an industry treating the sale of its product as essential but its workers as expendable is already visible: we need only to look at the horrors occurring in Amazon warehouses and fulfillment centers.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/05\/01\/metro\/jeffrey-epsteins-harvard-ties-were-extensive-new-report-reveals\/\">Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Harvard ties were extensive, new report reveals<\/a> (<i>Boston Globe<\/i>) And Harvard already had more money than it knew what to do with, even with Larry Summers mismanaging the fund a few years back.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wS7Xozw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wS7Xozw.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_27690_this-lizard-broke-constipation-record-rip.html\">Pizza-Fueled Lizard Broke The Constipation Record, RIP<\/a> (<i>Cracked<\/i>) 80% of the lizard&#8217;s body mass was a &#8220;Fecal Bolus&#8221; from eating garbage from a pizza shop.  Clearly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could never exist.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/may\/09\/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months\">The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Schoolboys were shipwrecked on a desert island 50 years ago, and they behaved with kindness and caring for one another.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zocalopublicsquare.org\/2017\/09\/25\/bullwinkle-helped-us-laugh-off-nuclear-annihilation\/chronicles\/who-we-were\/\">How Bullwinkle Helped Us Laugh Off Nuclear Annihilation<\/a> (<i>Z\u00f3calo Public Square<\/i>) Bullwinkle was <b>UNBELIEVABLY<\/b> subversive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/15\/one-nation-under-guard\/\">One Nation Under Guard<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) More cops and prison guards as inequaljty increases, because their purpose to protect rich looters from the poor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/facebook-and-the-folly-of-self-regulation\/\">Facebook and the Folly of Self-Regulation<\/a> (<i>Wired<\/i>) Self-regulation is to regulation as self-importance is to importance.&nbsp; <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will make you hate your old (new) toaster FOREVER, and there are models of this toaster from 1948 still working.<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OfxlSG6q5Y\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor: Why These Agents Argue Books Aren&#8217;t Essential(Publishers Weekly) &#8220;The natural endpoint of an industry treating the sale of its product as essential but its workers as expendable is already visible: we need only to look at the horrors occurring in Amazon warehouses and fulfillment centers.&#8221; Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Harvard ties were extensive, &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-176584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176584"}],"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=176584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}