{"id":179112,"date":"2018-05-14T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/14\/linkage-134\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:02:00","slug":"linkage-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/14\/linkage-134\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-bizarre-tale-of-the-australia-flat-earth-convention-that-fell-apart\/\">The bizarre tale of the flat-Earth convention that fell apart<\/a> (<i>CNET<\/i>) I really wish that Terry Pratchett was around to comment on this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-carbon-footprint-of-tourism-revealed-its-bigger-than-we-thought-96200\">The carbon footprint of tourism revealed (it&#8217;s bigger than we thought)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2018\/05\/monica-lewinsky-on-her-disinvitation-debacle\">Monica Lewinsky: What We All Can Learn from My Disinvitation Debacle<\/a> (<i>Vanity Fair<\/i>) Monica Lewinski gets an anodyne invite to a charity function, and then gets uninvited after Bill Clinton announces that he will be there.  Ms. Lewinski goes public.  Much stupidity (Not from Lewinski) ensues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/supernove-distance\">What&#8217;s a safe distance between us and a supernova?<\/a> (<i>EarthSky<\/i>) Somewhere under 50 and 100 light years, you start getting major effects on earth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/grenfell-tower-fire-victims-relatives-inquiry-panel-martin-moore-bick-a8346986.html\">Grenfell Tower fire: Government makes U-turn on inquiry panel after pressure from bereaved families<\/a> (<i>The Independent<\/i>) The Theresa May Tango:  Do something cruel and stupid, and after weeks of protests and condemnation, and reverses herself.  She may be the most incompetent British PM since Winston Churchill in the 1950s.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.p2pfoundation.net\/connecting-nyc-managing-a-top-level-domain-as-a-commons\/2018\/05\/12\">Connecting.nyc: Managing a top-level domain as a commons<\/a>  (<i>P2P Foundation<\/i>) Conservatives would call this proposal socialism.  Conservatives are idiots.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/theres-now-clear-evidence-anti-poverty-programs-like-welfare-social-security-work-194733608.html\">Study: programs like welfare and Social Security work<\/a> (<i>Yahoo Finance<\/i>) Won&#8217;t change conservative minds, because they are impervious to facts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/we-rsquo-ve-known-for-400-years-that-torture-doesn-rsquo-t-work\/\">We&#8217;ve Known for 400 Years That Torture Doesn&#8217;t Work<\/a> (<i>Scientific American<\/i>) It&#8217;s official.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iraq-election-shoe-thrower\/iraqi-journalist-who-threw-shoes-at-bush-stands-for-parliament-idUSKBN1IC1AQ\">Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush stands for parliament<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) Politics is weird.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/2009-acorn-scandal_us_5ae23fa6e4b02baed1b86696\">How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today&#8217;s Nightmare Politics<\/a> (<i>HuffPo<\/i>) Whether it&#8217;s the Democratic Party&#8217;s defenestration of ACORN, or the similar dismissal of Shirley Sherrod, contributed mightily to the right wing echo chamber of lies, because they discovered that it worked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This may be <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2018\/05\/12\/fuck-the-nra\/\">The best political ad of the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an FYI, the station actually broadcast this, because <a href=\"https:\/\/news.avclub.com\/congressional-candidate-runs-fuck-the-nra-ad-on-local-1825983085\">federal regulations require it<\/a>:  (Warning, F-Bomb)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nu_7m--Ozrs\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bizarre tale of the flat-Earth convention that fell apart (CNET) I really wish that Terry Pratchett was around to comment on this. The carbon footprint of tourism revealed (it&#8217;s bigger than we thought) Monica Lewinsky: What We All Can Learn from My Disinvitation Debacle (Vanity Fair) Monica Lewinski gets an anodyne invite to a &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-179112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179112"}],"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=179112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}