Linkage

• U.S. government ordered to solve 'Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat' (Reuters) The FAA is saying that shrinking airline seats are not a safety issue.  An advocacy group filed suit.
• Lawsuits could force feds to pay Obamacare insurers (Politico) Pass the popcorn.
• People Are Buying Fish Antibiotics Because They Can’t Afford Human Ones (Motherboard) Best healthcare system in the world.
• Original Shareholder Value Article – Milton Friedman to GM: Build Clunky Cars (Naked Capitalism) A straight line between Milton Friedman's theory of shareholder value and the implosion of GM. See also Sears and Ayn Rand.
• Why Are Drug Prices So High? The Fight Over A Price-Gouging Bill (International Business Times) The Democratic Governors Association, in particular contemptible Connecticut sh%$ heel Dan Malloy, are fighting against anti-price gouging laws. And the Dems wonder why people don't believe that they work for the rest of us.
• UPDATED: Siedle, Raimondo Critic, to be Awarded $48M in SEC Record Whistleblower Case (GoLocalProv) Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island Governor and former state Treasurer, shoveled money out of the pension fund to her hedge fund friends.  One of her biggest critics just got a lot of money for uncovering corruption.
• ‘Flash drought’ could devastate half the High Plains wheat harvest  (Grist) Clearly anthropogenic climate change is a myth.

Reader(s) of this blog may be aware of my fondness of the juxtaposition of engineering and history. Case in point, this military training film about mechanical ballistic computers from the early 1950s: