{"id":180349,"date":"2017-05-15T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/15\/linkage-215\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:06:00","slug":"linkage-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/15\/linkage-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/promarket.org\/google-close-natural-monopoly-bell-system-1956\/\">Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956<\/a> (<i>Pro Market<\/i>) If only we enforced antitrust these days.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/may\/11\/not-to-be-sniffed-at-human-sense-of-smell-rivals-that-of-dogs-says-study\">Not to be sniffed at: human sense of smell rivals that of dogs, says study<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) It turns out that our noses are not insensitive, but untrained, which is not surprising, since they spent most of their time 1.5 meters above the ground.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2017\/05\/hillary-clinton-onward-together-trump-resistance\">Still Not an Activist<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) On Hillary, whose posse on her current vanity project includes a lobbyist for failed predatory lender Countrywide Financial.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/05\/12\/even-the-cable-lobbys-questionable-survey-shows-most-americans-want-net-neutrality\/\">Even The Cable Lobby\u2019s Questionable Survey Shows Most Americans Want Net Neutrality<\/a> (<i>Consumerist<\/i>) Rule one of high speed internet:&nbsp; The incumbents suck.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/story:19073:Lawyer-with-Responsibility-for-Mortgage-Crisis-Appointed-to-Take-Care-of-Mortgage-Banks\">Lawyer with Responsibility for Mortgage Crisis Appointed to Take Care of Mortgage Banks<\/a> (<i>Real News Network<\/i>) Trump&#8217;s latest appointee. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British Marine makes merciless fun of officers:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zs8c_c_awGs\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956 (Pro Market) If only we enforced antitrust these days. Not to be sniffed at: human sense of smell rivals that of dogs, says study (The Guardian) It turns out that our noses are not insensitive, but untrained, which is not &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-180349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180349"}],"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=180349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}