{"id":179914,"date":"2017-09-15T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/15\/linkage-180\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:02:00","slug":"linkage-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/15\/linkage-180\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/ashkenazi-jews-descend-from-350-people-study-finds\/\">Ashkenazi Jews descend from 350 people, study finds<\/a> (<i>The Times of Israel<\/i>) Not a surprise.  The historical record backs this up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb\">The mystery of the lost Roman herb<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) Silphium.&nbsp; It had numerous medicinal uses, including as an effective method of birth control.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/how-bullwinkle-taught-kids-sophisticated-political-satire-180964803\/\">How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire<\/a> (<i>Smithsonian<\/i>) I&#8217;ve always been amazed that it made it past the censors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/progressivearmy.com\/2017\/09\/12\/revenge-of-the-pumas\/\">Revenge of the PUMAs<\/a> (<i>The Progressive Army<\/i>) The Hillary dead enders in 2008 were about twice as likely to vote for VP Sarah Palin as Bernie supporters were to vote for Trump.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2017\/09\/sofi-scandal-getting-crazier-fast\/\">SoFi Scandal Turning Quickly From \u201cNothing Was Sexual\u201d To \u201cEverybody Is Having Sex With Everybody\u201d<\/a> (<i>Dealbreaker<\/i>) Another Dot Com sex scandal.&nbsp; In this case, managers would literally f%$# an employee in the parking lot, and promote them when they got back in the office.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/boss-going-away-party-a-little-too-jubilant-1737\">Boss&#8217; Going-Away Party A Little Too Jubilant<\/a> (<i>The Onion<\/i>) A classic from 2004. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cockney <i>Star Trek<\/i>, or as I like to think of it, the USS Chav:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQJrBSXSs6o\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashkenazi Jews descend from 350 people, study finds (The Times of Israel) Not a surprise. The historical record backs this up. The mystery of the lost Roman herb (BBC) Silphium.&nbsp; It had numerous medicinal uses, including as an effective method of birth control. How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire (Smithsonian) I&#8217;ve always been amazed &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-179914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179914"}],"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=179914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}