{"id":186785,"date":"2013-10-10T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/10\/linkage-341\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:26:00","slug":"linkage-341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/10\/linkage-341\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/return-of-the-supercommittee-100813\">want another super-committee<\/a> (<i>Charlie Pierce<\/i>), because that way, the voters cannot figure out just who did them like a drunk sorority girl.<\/li>\n<li>Read this, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2009\/10\/07\/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office\/\">The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to &#8216;The Office&#8217;.<\/a> (<i>Venkatesh G. Rao<\/i>)  An excellent dissection of how businesses are petri dishes for psychopaths.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/opinion\/opinion\/373437\/tpp-pact-requires-regulated-financing\">TPP pact requires regulated financing<\/a>&nbsp; (<i>Bangkok&nbsp; Post<\/i>) important.&nbsp; The rest of the world is beginning to see the horrors of a hyper-financialized economic regime.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/oct\/08\/nsa-bulk-metadata-surveillance-intelligence\">Fact: the NSA gets negligible intel from Americans&#8217; metadata. So end collection<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) file under, &#8220;Well, duh&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here is the Who on the Smothers Brothers Show:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"375\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVa4q-YVjD8\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans want another super-committee (Charlie Pierce), because that way, the voters cannot figure out just who did them like a drunk sorority girl. Read this, &#8220;The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to &#8216;The Office&#8217;. (Venkatesh G. Rao) An excellent dissection of how businesses are petri dishes for psychopaths. TPP pact requires regulated financing&nbsp; &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-186785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186785"}],"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=186785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}