Linkage

• Aspartame intake is associated with greater glucose intolerance in individuals with obesity (Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism) Like we didn't know that diet soda is awful for you.
• A Few Upsides of the Brexit Disaster (The Rude Pundit) "Two words: Bargain corgis."  LOL
• The New Payola: Deals Landlords Cut with Internet Providers (Backchannel) The wonder of the neoliberal free market:  Monopoly rents.
• The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs almost got us, too (The Week) Mammals were hit just as hard, but proved more adaptable.
• The Billionaire Pedophile Who Could Bring Down Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (The Daily Beast) F%$# it.  I am writing Jeremy Corbyn in.
• Is the Supreme Court Clueless About Corruption? Ask Jack Abramoff (The New York Times) A pretty good examination of the Bob McDonnell decision.  (Robert Reich calls it a decision to legalize bribery.)
• New research: ‘competing’ aggressively on tax reduces growth (Foolsgold International) Not a surprise.  Public giveaways to private enterprise does not work.
• The Bahamas’ new U.S. travel advisory: Use ‘extreme caution’ around police (The Washington Post) The citizens of the Bahamas are overwhelmingly of African extraction, and they are warning them US police officers constitute a potential threat.  Who says that Irony is dead?

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