{"id":180332,"date":"2017-05-22T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/22\/linkage-213\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:42:00","slug":"linkage-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/22\/linkage-213\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/taibbi-roger-ailes-was-one-of-the-worst-americans-ever-w483013\">Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) Matt Taibbi issues a savage obituary for the former Fox News Chief.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2017\/04\/joe-wilson-you-lie-town-hall\">Rep. Joe Wilson Shouted Down by &#8220;You Lie&#8221; Chants During Angry Town Hall<\/a> (<i>Mother Jones<\/i>) Schadenfreude, neh?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2017\/05\/cuomo_excelsior_syracuse_hesc_questions_occ_free_tuition.html\">Cuomo&#8217;s staff disappoints returning student at OCC forum on &#8216;free tuition&#8217;<\/a> (<i>Syracuse.com<\/i>) What a surprise:  When a conservative corporate-o-crat designs a program that appears to be progressive, it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/05\/18\/climate\/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html\">Miles of Ice Collapsing Into the Sea<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) We are unbelievably screwed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2017\/06\/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery\/\">The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada<\/a> (<i>National Geographic<\/i>) This is a different dino from the one named after the Ghosbusters monster Zuul from a few weeks ago.  It&#8217;s been a remarkable month for paleontology.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/what-plato-knew-about-behavioural-economics-a-lot\">What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot)<\/a> (<i>Aeon Essays<\/i>) This is not a surprise.  Plato is not just an archaic bit of history.&nbsp; His <i>Republic<\/i> remains a blue print for modern fascism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-05-19\/economic-forecasting-is-still-broken\">Economic Forecasting Is Still Broken<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) In related news, water is wet. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This could be good, or it could be awful, or it could be uneven and spotty.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this is from the mind of Seth McFarlane, my money is on the final option, though I am going to try and catch the first episode, because it is directed by Jon Faveau .<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8aUuFsXRjU\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever (Rolling Stone) Matt Taibbi issues a savage obituary for the former Fox News Chief. Rep. Joe Wilson Shouted Down by &#8220;You Lie&#8221; Chants During Angry Town Hall (Mother Jones) Schadenfreude, neh? Cuomo&#8217;s staff disappoints returning student at OCC forum on &#8216;free tuition&#8217; (Syracuse.com) What a surprise: &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-180332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180332"}],"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=180332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}