{"id":181550,"date":"2016-05-24T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/24\/linkage-289\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:07:00","slug":"linkage-289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/24\/linkage-289\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/05\/ian-fraser-just-how-corrupt-is-the-uk.html\">Ian Fraser: Just How Corrupt is The UK?<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) No banksters prosecution in the UK either.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/r-i-p-gop-how-trump-is-killing-the-republican-party-20160518\">R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party<\/a> (<i>Rolling Stone<\/i>) Taibbi.  The Money quote is, &#8220;&#8221;They dominated American political life for 50 years and were never anything but monsters.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/uk\/ellen-engelstad\/norwegian-view-are-things-really-so-bad-outside-eu\">A Norwegian view: are things really so bad outside the EU?<\/a> (<i>openDemocracy<\/i>) Norway is not in the EU, and it&#8217;s doing well.  Of course, the general lack of corruption in Norway might have something to do with it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/05\/20\/pentagon-official-once-told-morley-safer-that-reporters-who-believe-the-government-are-stupid\/\">Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are \u201cStupid\u201d<\/a> (<i>The Intercept<\/i> The recently deceased Morley Safer putting the lie to the Vietnam war in the early 1960s.  Just read this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/news\/a45000\/make-selfies-not-guns\/\">Tumblr Replaces Guns With Selfie Sticks In Movie Scenes<\/a> (<i>Esquire<\/i>) That which is seen cannot be unseen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/anti-gay-marriage-gop-candidate-explains-his-past-as-a-drag-queen-2014-5#!HRvuT\">Anti-Gay-Marriage GOP Candidate Explains His Past As A Drag Queen<\/a> (<i>Business Insider<\/i>) Do I need to say anything here?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/05\/20\/airbnb-stealth-updates-terms-o.html\">Airbnb stealth-updates terms of service, says it&#8217;s not an insurer and requires binding arbitration<\/a> (<i>Boing Boing<\/i>) It seems the whole &#8220;sharing economy&#8221; is about f%$#ing the people doing the work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Charlie rocking out on a mandolin:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g--7aJ2AWgs?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Fraser: Just How Corrupt is The UK? (naked capitalism) No banksters prosecution in the UK either. R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party (Rolling Stone) Taibbi. The Money quote is, &#8220;&#8221;They dominated American political life for 50 years and were never anything but monsters.&#8221; A Norwegian view: are things really so bad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181550"}],"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=181550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}