{"id":178014,"date":"2019-04-01T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/01\/linkage-81\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:41:00","slug":"linkage-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/01\/linkage-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/rachel-maddow-the-lefts-powerhouse-on-cable-doubles-down-on-the-collusion-angle\/2019\/03\/26\/bd8701d0-4f36-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html\">Rachel Maddow, the left\u2019s powerhouse on cable, won\u2019t let the Mueller probe go.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) I am not the only one to notice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20190301\/09283541703\/stupid-patent-month-veripath-patents-following-privacy-laws.shtml\">Stupid Patent Of The Month: Veripath Patents Following Privacy Laws<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) We really need to fix our broken IP system.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2019\/03\/shining-a-light-on-presidential-libraries-the-unrenowned-pay-to-play-scandal\/#utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=twitt_sunshineweek-presidential-libraries-031318\">Shining a light on presidential libraries \u2014 the unrenowned pay-to-play scandal<\/a> (<i>Opensecrets.org<\/i>) Yet another form of back-loaded bribery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/03\/25\/german-billionaire-family-that-owns-einstein-bros-bagels-admits-nazi-past\/\">JAB Holdings: Reimann family, who own stake in Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread, admits Nazi past<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) The wages of sin, huh?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/news\/bofa-wells-fargo-sour-on-blockchain\">BofA, Wells Fargo sour on blockchain<\/a> (<i>American Banker<\/i>) Not surprising.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve yet to see a meaningful real world application beyond crypto currencies, even among the Slashdot crowd.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/03\/trump-financial-statements-full-of-lies?verso=true\">Trump\u2019s Financial Statements Are So Full Of Lies That His Accountants Put a Warning Label on Them<\/a> (<i>Vanity Fair<\/i>) But instead of covering this, we got phony pee tapes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/436526-trump-administration-awards-17-million-family-planning-grant-to-anti\">Trump administration awards $1.7 million family planning grant to anti-abortion clinics<\/a> (<i>The Hill<\/i>) Some policy consequences of Trump.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolisfed.org\/publications\/the-region\/the-good-old-days-in-many-ways-yes\">The good old days? In many ways, yes<\/a> (<i>Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis<\/i>) Note the source. &#8220;Less-educated Americans born in the 1960s fare much worse than those born 20 years earlier due to wage changes, shorter life expectancy, and higher medical costs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mashup from just 1 Maddow show of all the Russia references:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgBxfHdb4OU\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow, the left\u2019s powerhouse on cable, won\u2019t let the Mueller probe go. (Washington Post) I am not the only one to notice. Stupid Patent Of The Month: Veripath Patents Following Privacy Laws (Techdirt) We really need to fix our broken IP system. Shining a light on presidential libraries \u2014 the unrenowned pay-to-play scandal (Opensecrets.org) &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-178014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178014"}],"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=178014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}