{"id":178009,"date":"2019-04-02T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/02\/linkage-80\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:44:00","slug":"linkage-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/02\/linkage-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/apr\/08\/barack-obama-democratic-party-purity\">Barack Obama represents the old Democratic party<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Money quote, &#8220;The former president says he\u2019s worried about \u2018purity\u2019 tests in the  Democratic party. What he\u2019s really worried about is his surrogates losing control of the party&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2019\/04\/why-does-the-left-sneer-at-the-traditional-working-class\/\">Why does the Left sneer at the traditional working class?<\/a> (<i>UnHerd<\/i>) The UK, addressing the all to common trope that addressing issues of the working class is just pandering to white people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ritholtz.com\/2019\/04\/buy-yourself-a-fking-latte\/\">Buy Yourself a F*^king Latte<\/a> (<i>The Big Picture<\/i>) Barry Ritholtz runs the numbers, and Suze Orman&#8217;s numbers on this, noting that Orman&#8217;s numbers assume a return of 12% <b>AFTER<\/b> inflation, more than double of the market&#8217;s rate of return.  Wage increases of 2% a year do a lot more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/20\/18508382\/apps-mental-health-smoking-cessation-data-sharing-privacy-facebook-google-advertising\">That mental health app might share your data without telling you<\/a> (<i>The Verge<\/i>) We don&#8217;t just need regulation, we need executives behind bars.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/04\/are-we-earths-only-civilization\/557180\/\">Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?<\/a> (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) The so-called, &#8220;Silurian Hypothesis.&#8221;  The authors of the peer reviewed paper don&#8217;t believe it, but present it as a mental exercise on how evidence of such things are fleeting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/20\/nancy-pelosi-openly-critical-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar\">Nancy Pelosi shows no restraint on disparaging young progressive women<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Pelosi really needs to go.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/pete-buttigieg-trivializes-the-impact-of-trade-on-us-job-losses\/\">Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses<\/a> (<i>Truthout<\/i>) As a matter of settled law, we have been subsidizing jobs moving overseas for decades, and automation is an excuse to do nothing to call capital, and the body politic, to account.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/the-kushner-family-passover-haggadah-2019-edition?fbclid=IwAR3CdQyzFS-WYlH-IBAzStsCHG5Q_Za6xnQQwgWxR4PhucssWLSa5KA-B9E\">The Kushner Family Passover Haggadah, 2019 Edition<\/a> (<i>McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/i>) Read this. it is brilliant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A tour of an old machine shop.  I love this sh%$:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mz7OTnuTrg\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama represents the old Democratic party (The Guardian) Money quote, &#8220;The former president says he\u2019s worried about \u2018purity\u2019 tests in the Democratic party. What he\u2019s really worried about is his surrogates losing control of the party&#8221; Why does the Left sneer at the traditional working class? (UnHerd) The UK, addressing the all to common &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-178009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178009"}],"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=178009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}