{"id":177018,"date":"2020-01-21T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/21\/linkage-50\/"},"modified":"2020-01-21T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:02:00","slug":"linkage-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/21\/linkage-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/business\/lands-end-sued-by-delta-air-lines-employees-who-claim\/article_1acba5c3-59fa-5232-a388-97583008e6e2.html\">Lands&#8217; End sued by Delta Air Lines employees who claim uniforms cause health problems<\/a> (<i>Madison.com<\/i>) &#8220;Testing of the employees\u2019 uniforms found several heavy metals and chemicals present above safe levels, including mercury, formaldehyde, fluorine and chromium, the lawsuit claims.&#8221; Capitalism at it&#8217;s finest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/01\/12\/what-poland-has-to-hide-about-the-origins-of-world-war-ii\/\">What Poland Has to Hide About the Origins of World War II<\/a> (<i>Strategic Culture<\/i>) By this account, the Polish government was Hitler&#8217;s biggest supporter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1783287\/vulture-feces-disrupting-cbp-communications-on-us-mexico-border\/\">Vulture feces disrupting CBP communications on US-Mexico border<\/a> (<i>Quartz<\/i>) This is both real and a strong metaphor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/reporting-recipe-how-to-investigate-professors-conflicts-of-interest\">Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Professors\u2019 Conflicts of Interest<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) The news org launches a way for people to blow the whistle on corrupt academics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2020\/01\/bagel-mafia-wars-local-338-union.html\">How New York\u2019s Bagel Union Took on the Mob<\/a> (<i>Grupstreet<\/i>) Unfortunately, they ended up losing to Lenders, which is why it is so difficult to find a decent bagel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/answering-the-question-that-won-me-the-ig-nobel-prize-are-cats-liquid-86589\">Answering the question that won me the Ig Nobel prize: Are cats liquid?<\/a> (<i>The Conversation<\/i>) A study on the rheology of cats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2020\/01\/15\/william-barr-the-carl-schmitt-of-our-time\/\">William Barr: The Carl Schmitt of Our Time<\/a> (<i>The New York Review of Books<\/i>) FYI, Carl Schmitt was the author of Nazi jurisprudence, such as it was.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/afghan-war-plagued-by-mendacity-and-lies-inspector-general-tells-congress\/2020\/01\/15\/c65d0d46-37b5-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html\">SIGAR inspector general John Spoko tells Congress the war in Afghanistan plagued by &#8216;mendacity&#8217; and lies<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) &#8220;U.S. officials have routinely lied to the public during the 18-year war.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love the way that this scene is composed.  It&#8217;s like a Utagawa Hiroshige print:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rn4FY_k9FyE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lands&#8217; End sued by Delta Air Lines employees who claim uniforms cause health problems (Madison.com) &#8220;Testing of the employees\u2019 uniforms found several heavy metals and chemicals present above safe levels, including mercury, formaldehyde, fluorine and chromium, the lawsuit claims.&#8221; Capitalism at it&#8217;s finest. 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