Linkage

• Blow for Obama's TPP as Vietnam parliament defers ratification (Reuters) Good
• The Intellectual Yet Idiot (Medium) A description of the people who have the skills to get into elite schools, but not for much else.  Money quote, "The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited."
• Pharma company boosts the price of an old acne cream 3,900% (Ars Technica) To almost $10,000.00 a tube.  Yikes!
• Guess How Much That Anti-LGBTQ Law Is Costing North Carolina (WIRED) About $400 million so far. Bigots made to pay for their bigotry.
• Free trade lowers prices -- but not on things poor people need (and it pushes up housing prices) (Boing Boing) Free trade deals screwing the bottom ¾ of the populace is a feature, not a bug.

Philomwna Cunk explains time. (Devastating funny satire)