Linkage
- Saudi Arabia launches girls' council - without any girls (BBC) The House of Saud never falls to impress ……… In a bad way.
- And now for an idiotic war on batteries (MacroBusiness) Read a well deserved take-down of Aussie wingnuts.
- Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber’s True Origin Story (naked capitalism) Read the whole series. Uber is an attempt to create a monopoly through political capture of regulators so that it can extract monopoly rents. If it fails to do so, it will never earn a dime.
- So many open jobs for truck drivers! It’s another bogus skills shortage story. (Fabius Maximus) The pay, benefits, and working conditions of truck drivers have cratered over the last few decades. Fewer people want to drive trucks. Q.E.D.
- Republicans Keep Showing Us Who They Are (The Nation) As the scorpion says, "It's my nature."
- Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature (Literary Hub) I agree.
- Chrystia Freeland’s granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation (Ottawa Citizen) In response to reports that her grandfather was a notorious Nazi collaborator, a spokesman for Canadian FM Chrystia Freeland claimed that it was Russian propaganda. It turns out that Freeland is on record for over 2 decades as being aware of her sordid family history.
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