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Linky Friday #116
Politics: [P2] Democrats, it would seem, have no beef with socialism. [P3] Joe Battenfield argues that if things don’t work out with Hillary Clinton, the Democrats can always go with Kerry. Before Mitt...
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Linky Friday #117: Oil Everywhere
Labor: [L1] Oilman or Cowboy? The oil boom has been enticing more people to the former, creating a shortage of the latter. So what now? [L2] How the minimum wage moved from a national and state issue...
View ArticleLinky Friday #118: Evil Dentists, Haunted Mansions, and the Scent of the Dead
Outrage: [O1] Erik Kain’s piece on outrage culture is worth a read, in which he starts with this story where Internet Avengers managed to get two elderly hearse drivers fired on account of their need...
View ArticleLinky Friday #119: Money & Sport Edition
Business: [B1] From Tod Kelly: Alice Hines explores why Utah, of all places, has become the nation’s go-to place for get-rich-quick schemes. [B2] From Oscar Gordon: Why startups succeed: It’s all in...
View ArticleBYOL: Bring Your Own Links
There will be no Linky Friday this week. I’ve decided that for my sanity I need to reduce my interaction with the Internets for a few days and Linky Friday tends to be a very, very Internets-busy day...
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Linky Friday #120: Rebels & Empires
Politics: Image by wellohorld [Po1] Though maybe it wasn’t actually a cigarette in Obama’s hand, I agree with Philip Bump that we shouldn’t really care if it was. [Po2] John Kasich has apparently...
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Linky Friday #121: Slimy Critters
United States: Image by dbnunley [US1] If you’ve lived or work there, Minnesota may owe you money. But if so, they aren’t telling. Some years ago I found out Deltona owed me money (somewhere between...
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Linky Friday #122: Lain Edition
Headlines: [H1] Kindred Winecoff has some thoughts on Piketty’s comparison between the debt forgiveness that Germany received and what people are advocating for Greece, but Mainly Macro says that...
View ArticleLinky Friday #123: Middle East Meets West
Jihadism: [J1] Four dead, three injured in Chattanooga. [J2] ThinkProgress has a good story on an Imam talking kids out of joining ISIS. [J3] So happens when a Jihadi returns home? [J4] This is...
View ArticleLinky Friday #124: Northern Invasion
Alumni [A1] From Christopher Carr: Conor Williams on setting the bar high for education reform. [A2] Elias Isquith notes the problem with speaking to political opponents in their language. And he’s...
View ArticleLinky Friday #125: After Alaska
Housing: [H1] Seattle may be getting rid of single-family zoning! Wait, no! [H2] The Anti-planner takes issue with the new HUD fair housing rule. On which, regardless of the merits (I have no real...
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Linky Friday #126: USE! USE!
Useful: [U1] Ever want to give a eulogy at your own funeral? Now, maybe, you can. [U2] You know that round thingie at the end of your laptop charger? Well this is what that round thingie is all about....
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Linky Friday #127: Crime, Coin, & Sesame Street
Headlines: Image by Mona Okiddo-Eberhardt [H1] A World War II vet and Walmart employee celebrates his 103rd birthday. [H2] The joke writes itself: The daughter of the Governor of Oklahoma had to...
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Linky Friday #128: Ubersafe
Safety: Image by Defence Images [S1] UberX could be responsible for saving lives. [S2] Will there be a restaurant at which we can watch? Or will we have to make due with charts? [S3] BBC explains how...
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Linky Friday #129: Scary Things
Trump: Image by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com [T1] When more than half of the stadium was empty, I thought that might register with media depiction of the event, but the media keeps letting him...
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Linky World
China: Image by Internet Archive Book Images [C1] To combat infanticide, China set up “safe havens” for abandonment (like we do with fire stations). Unfortunately, so many babies are being abandoned...
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Linky Friday #130: Martyrs & Migrants
Education: Image by starmanseries [E1] School districts have been scrambling to hire teachers. [E2] Start. School. Later. [E3] Anne Continetti of the Weekly Standard and Anya Kamenetz of NPR look at a...
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Linky Friday #131: Japan & Beyond
Crime: Image by Ari Helminen [Cr1] This I did not know: Trained dogs can sniff out thumb drives. [Cr2] Well, this is one way to impose a data retention policy: Keep the data on a Windows XP computer...
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Linky Friday #132: Showtime!
Media: Ron Perlman as Norman Arbuthnot in “The Last Supper”- Four stars [Me1] So, as some suspected, it turns out that Tanya Cohen was not real after all. [Me2] Kevin D Williamson writes the editor...
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Linky Friday #133: Body, Mind, & Spirit
Education: Image by Michael Fleshman [E1] Conor Williams writes that liberal opposition to inequality ends where their schools begin. [E2] Paul Campos writes more on the subject of college costs. [E3]...
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