{"id":177872,"date":"2019-05-18T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/18\/linkage-74\/"},"modified":"2019-05-18T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T10:05:00","slug":"linkage-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/18\/linkage-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/05\/01\/magazine\/remington-guns-jobs-huntsville.html\">How America\u2019s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) No mystery.  Private equity robbed them blind.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2019\/05\/the-team-that-scores-most-points-wins.html\">The Team That Scores The Most Points Wins, Even If The Scoring Rules Are Complicated<\/a>&nbsp; (<i>Eschaton<\/i>) On how incompetent political consultants in the Democratic Party alibi their failures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/us-border-patrol-is-the-most-brutal-militia-of-all\/\">US Border Patrol Is the Most Brutal Militia of All<\/a> (<i>Truthout<\/i>) Sadism and brutality does appear toat the core of their institutional culture, and I am an immigration hardliner saying this.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/03\/killer-rabbits-in-medieval-manuscripts-why-so-many-drawings-in-the-margins-depict-bunnies-going-bad.html\">Medieval Bunny Rabbits<\/a> (<i>Open Culture<\/i>)&nbsp; It appears that murderous bunny rabbits were very much a part of medieval culture, I wonder if Monty Python knew this when they did the movie.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/16\/austria-denounces-cow-kiss-challenge\">\u2018Cow kiss challenge\u2019: Austria tells people to shun charity dare<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) The hed says it all. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Who, The Roots, Jimmy Fallon, and Elementary School musical instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Townshend smashes his ukulele at the end:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ks8s1hC9y7c\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How America\u2019s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (New York Times) No mystery. Private equity robbed them blind. The Team That Scores The Most Points Wins, Even If The Scoring Rules Are Complicated&nbsp; (Eschaton) On how incompetent political consultants in the Democratic Party alibi their failures. US Border Patrol Is the Most &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-177872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177872"}],"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=177872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}