{"id":180384,"date":"2017-05-05T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/05\/linkage-218\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:09:00","slug":"linkage-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/05\/linkage-218\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/angrybearblog.com\/2017\/05\/welfare-reform-horror-in-mississippi.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=welfare-reform-horror-in-mississippi\">Welfare Reform Horror in Mississippi<\/a> (<i>Angry Bear<\/i>) An acceptance rate of 1.47%.&nbsp; Bill Clinton&#8217;s welfare reform bears bitter fruit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a54844\/protester-laugh-jeff-sessions-trial\/\">Woman Arrested and Charged for Laughing During Jeff Sessions&#8217; Confirmation Hearing<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) She laughed when Jeff Sessions said that he supported civil rights.  She was actually convicted of disturbing the peace for laughing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a54837\/new-aurora-steve\/\">Scientists Just Discovered a New Aurora and They&#8217;re Calling It Steve<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) Astronomers, huh?  A new poorly understood phenomena, and they decide, &#8220;Let&#8217;s call it Steve&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/03\/american-air-cuts-two-inches-of-legroom-on-some-seats-in-new-jets.html\">American Air cuts 2 inches of legroom on some seats in new jets<\/a> (<i>CNBC<\/i>) Where is your God now seating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/may\/02\/facebook-executive-advertising-data-comment\">I&#8217;m an ex-Facebook exec: don&#8217;t believe what they tell you about ads<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) A commentary on Facebook preying on depressed teens for ads.&nbsp; Money quote, &#8220;The hard reality is that Facebook will never try to limit such use of their data unless the public uproar reaches such a crescendo as to be un-mutable.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/05\/effs-stupid-patent-of-the-month-dispatch-a-taxi-on-a-computer\/\">EFF\u2019s Stupid Patent of the month: Dispatch a taxi (on a computer)<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) The patents were filed for in the early 1990s, when computers had been used to dispatch taxis for over a decade.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyhive.com\/toronto\/lcbo-recalls-bombay-sapphire-gin-may-2017\">LCBO recalls Bombay Sapphire gin with almost double alcohol content<\/a> (<i>Daily Hive Toronto<\/i>) Around 78% instead of 40% by volume.  Guessing that there won&#8217;t be a whole bunch of returns, but I didn&#8217;t see any on eBay. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpzVc7s-_e8\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welfare Reform Horror in Mississippi (Angry Bear) An acceptance rate of 1.47%.&nbsp; Bill Clinton&#8217;s welfare reform bears bitter fruit. Woman Arrested and Charged for Laughing During Jeff Sessions&#8217; Confirmation Hearing (Esquire) She laughed when Jeff Sessions said that he supported civil rights. She was actually convicted of disturbing the peace for laughing. Scientists Just Discovered &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-180384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180384"}],"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=180384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}