{"id":180256,"date":"2017-06-12T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/12\/linkage-207\/"},"modified":"2017-06-12T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T10:11:00","slug":"linkage-207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/12\/linkage-207\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deadstate.org\/guy-who-says-god-sends-natural-disasters-to-punish-gays-has-his-home-destroyed-in-a-natural-disaster\/\">Guy who says God sends natural disasters to punish gays has his home destroyed in a natural disaster<\/a> (<i>DeadState<\/i>) Family Research Council President, and professional bigot, Tony Perkins gets just desserts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danalexander\/2017\/06\/06\/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business\/#63085f5b6b4a\">How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business<\/a> (<i>Forbes<\/i>) I would note that this is not as uncommon as you would think in the charity world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/earth\/animals\/rumors-of-t-rexs-feathery-past-were-greatly-exaggerated\">Did T. Rex Have Feathers or Tough, Scaly Skin?<\/a> (<i>Seeker<\/i>) They have found fossilized skin imprints, and there are no feathers.  This is not a surprise.  Because of the square cube law, large animals need less insulation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/336172-dems-want-hillary-clinton-to-leave-spotlight\">Dems want Hillary Clinton to leave spotlight<\/a> (<i>The Hill<\/i>) Hillary R. Clinton, will you please go now!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/06\/02\/uranium_producing_bacteria_underground\/\">Boffins find evidence of strange uranium-producing bacteria lurking underground<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) Nature is weird.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freedom-to-tinker.com\/2015\/04\/15\/decertifying-the-worst-voting-machine-in-the-us\/\">Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US<\/a> (<i>Freedom to Tinker<\/i>) Someone with a Pringles can antenna could have hacked a whole precinct from miles away in a matter of minutes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/open-society-foundations\/the-european-union-needs-a-radical-reinvention-4fb6f4be77fb\">The European Union Needs a Radical Reinvention<\/a>(<i>Medium<\/i>) George Soros sees the EU as doomed unless it reforms its undemocratic and dysfunctional status quo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realprogressivesusa.com\/news\/post\/2017-05-06-hillary-clinton\">Hillary Clinton Doesn&#8217;t Get to Co-Opt Racism and Misogyny Anymore<\/a> (<i>Real Progressives<\/i>) Finally, someone tells Hillary to check her privilege.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20170522\/17343837426\/cheap-dna-testing-is-giving-some-insurers-even-more-ways-to-deny-coverage.shtml\">Cheap DNA Testing Is Giving Some Insurers Even More Ways To Deny Coverage<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Insurance companies suck.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/june2017\/2017\/06\/no-labour-leader-different-jeremy-corbyn-would-not-have-won\">No, a Labour leader different to Jeremy Corbyn would not have won<\/a> (<i>New Statesman<\/i>) Demolishing the argument that the Blairite dead-enders are making.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financemagnates.com\/cryptocurrency\/news\/israeli-court-rules-banks-can-deny-service-bitcoin-firms\/\">Israeli Court Rules Banks Can Deny Service to Bitcoin Firms<\/a> (<i>Finance Magnates<\/i>) Short version: Banks have to obey money laundering regulations, and Bitcoin makes that impossible, so they can refuse to do business with Bitcoin firms.&nbsp; As one wag noted, Bitcoin is prosecution futures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the <i>Strontium Dog<\/i> fan film:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5EZaO1HPF4\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy who says God sends natural disasters to punish gays has his home destroyed in a natural disaster (DeadState) Family Research Council President, and professional bigot, Tony Perkins gets just desserts. How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business (Forbes) I would note that this is not as uncommon as you would think &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-180256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180256"}],"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=180256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}