Linkage

• Welfare Reform Horror in Mississippi (Angry Bear) An acceptance rate of 1.47%.  Bill Clinton's welfare reform bears bitter fruit.
• Woman Arrested and Charged for Laughing During Jeff Sessions' Confirmation Hearing (Esquire) She laughed when Jeff Sessions said that he supported civil rights. She was actually convicted of disturbing the peace for laughing.
• Scientists Just Discovered a New Aurora and They're Calling It Steve (Esquire) Astronomers, huh? A new poorly understood phenomena, and they decide, "Let's call it Steve".
• American Air cuts 2 inches of legroom on some seats in new jets (CNBC) Where is your God now seating.
• I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads (The Guardian) A commentary on Facebook preying on depressed teens for ads.  Money quote, "The hard reality is that Facebook will never try to limit such use of their data unless the public uproar reaches such a crescendo as to be un-mutable."
• EFF’s Stupid Patent of the month: Dispatch a taxi (on a computer) (Ars Technica) The patents were filed for in the early 1990s, when computers had been used to dispatch taxis for over a decade.
• LCBO recalls Bombay Sapphire gin with almost double alcohol content (Daily Hive Toronto) Around 78% instead of 40% by volume. Guessing that there won't be a whole bunch of returns, but I didn't see any on eBay.

Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory: