{"id":177437,"date":"2019-09-22T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/22\/linkage-60\/"},"modified":"2019-09-22T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:09:00","slug":"linkage-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/22\/linkage-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2019\/09\/09\/hurricane-dorian-likely-whipped-up-foot-rogue-wave-near-newfoundland\/?fbclid=IwAR1NEPKr-cPtMCrDVhZWl6OSoHd0kc1jgWWRzbzbWYQVdGdj6M3k9jNjXy4&amp;noredirect=on\">Dorian likely whipped up a 100-foot rogue wave near Newfoundland<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) Surf&#8217;s up.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/russia-has-oligarchs-the-us-has-businessmen\/?awt_l=Jst8C&amp;awt_m=hojcmLLaDYR._TQ\">Russia Has \u2018Oligarchs,\u2019 the US Has \u2018Businessmen\u2019<\/a> (<i>FAIR<\/i>) Why does FAIR hate america.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/graphics\/faster-internet-not-worth-it\/?mod=rsswn\">The Truth About Faster Internet: It\u2019s Not Worth It<\/a> (<i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>) It&#8217;s nearly impossible for home users to max out their current high speed data, the promised increases look to be an excuise for government subsidies. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/we-asked-prosecutors-if-health-insurance-companies-care-about-fraud-they-laughed-at-us\">We Asked Prosecutors if Health Insurance Companies Care About Fraud. They Laughed at Us.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(<i>ProPublica<\/i>) &#8220;I  tracked down a dozen or so investigators who once worked for insurers,  and they all said the same thing: Insurers don\u2019t police fraud as much as  they could because it hurts the bottom line.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2019\/09\/kabul-relieves-traffic-congestion-by-creating-car-bomb-lane\/\">Kabul Relieves Traffic Congestion By Creating Car Bomb Lane<\/a> (<i>Duffelblog<\/i>)&nbsp; Parody, but only just barely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2019\/09\/marie-kondo-urges-nation-to-thank-veterans-for-their-service-before-discarding-them\/\">Marie Kondo urges nation to thank veterans for their service before discarding them<\/a> (<i>Duffelblog<\/i>)&nbsp; <b>ALSO<\/b> parody, but only just barely.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-the-daughter-of-america-s-rabbi-just-opened-a-sex-shop-and-it-s-kosher-1.7683156\">This Tel Aviv sex shop is keeping it kosher &#8211; Israel News<\/a> (<i>Haaretz<\/i>) Rabbi Shmuley&#8217;s daughter Chana Boteach runs the store.&nbsp; Weird.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2019\/07\/league-of-conservation-voters-fossil-fuel-climate-change-corruption\">The Worst Environmentalists in the World<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) &#8220;The New York chapter of the League of Conservation Voters is a cesspool of fossil fuel greenwashing.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I loves me some vintage airshow newsreels:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> 1950: Newsreel was at the Farnborough Air Show to take a gander at all the latest planes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n82J0zxFqe\">pic.twitter.com\/n82J0zxFqe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCArchive\/status\/1170645453999939587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian likely whipped up a 100-foot rogue wave near Newfoundland (Washington Post) Surf&#8217;s up.&nbsp; Russia Has \u2018Oligarchs,\u2019 the US Has \u2018Businessmen\u2019 (FAIR) Why does FAIR hate america. The Truth About Faster Internet: It\u2019s Not Worth It (Wall Street Journal) It&#8217;s nearly impossible for home users to max out their current high speed data, the promised &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-177437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177437"}],"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=177437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}