{"id":179979,"date":"2017-08-22T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/22\/linkage-185\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T10:05:00","slug":"linkage-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/22\/linkage-185\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanjose\/news\/2017\/08\/08\/apple-park-employees-floor-plan-hq-spaceship-aapl.html\">Apple Inc. staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan at new $5 billion Apple Park headquarters<\/a> (<i>Silicon Valley Business Journal<\/i>) It doesn&#8217;t work, but it&#8217;s pretty.&nbsp; Apple in a nutshell <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwelsh.net\/on-charlottesville-why-the-center-is-ok-with-nazis-but-hates-the-left\/\">On Charlottesville: Why the Center Is Okay with Nazis but Hates the Left<\/a> (<i>Ian Welsh<\/i>) Short answer:&nbsp; Because they make money from private prisons and selling armored vehicles to cops. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a56987\/godwin-law-charlottesville-nazis\/\">Mike Godwin, Creator of Godwin&#8217;s Law, Says You Can Compare Charlottesville Protesters to Nazis<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) God damned Illinois Nazis!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20170806\/12414137946\/federal-court-strips-immunity-sheriff-who-tried-to-silence-critic-having-him-arrested.shtml\">Federal Court Strips Immunity From Sheriff Who Tried To Silence A Critic By Having Him Arrested<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Sheriff objects to muckraking involving his relationship with sweetheart insurance deals, and he files a criminal defamation charge, which is clearly unconstitutional.&nbsp; As the court noted, &#8220;Some qualified immunity cases are hard. This case is not one of them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a57064\/stonewall-jackson-descendants-open-letter\/\">Stonewall Jackson&#8217;s Family Wants His Monument Removed<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) His closest relatives know what the statues are about.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/08\/18\/two-sides-to-every-issue-the-tedium-twins-debate-the-crucifixion-slavery-and-cannibalism\/\">Two Sides to Every Issue: the Tedium Twins Debate the Crucifixion, Slavery and Cannibalism<\/a> (<i>Counter Punch<\/i>) A spot on parody of the PBS NewsHour, with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/thieves-steal-20-tons-of-chocolate-in-german-town\/a-40085127\">Thieves steal 20 tons of chocolate in German town<\/a> (<i>Deutsche Welle<\/i>) I have already interrogated my wife:  She was not involved, but she is considering changing her career to bounty hunter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Oliver explaining the affection of Nazis for Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nazis are a lot like cats: If they like you, it&#8217;s probably because you&#8217;re feeding them. Also, cats are like Nazis, but that&#8217;s a whole different subject.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07tMQs-5SD8\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan at new $5 billion Apple Park headquarters (Silicon Valley Business Journal) It doesn&#8217;t work, but it&#8217;s pretty.&nbsp; Apple in a nutshell On Charlottesville: Why the Center Is Okay with Nazis but Hates the Left (Ian Welsh) Short answer:&nbsp; Because they make money from private prisons and &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-179979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179979"}],"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=179979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}