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Thursday miscellany

  • Prosecutorial misconduct brings a mistrial in the Roger Clemens never-talk-to-the-feds case. How come we never see the feds on trial for lying to us? (ADDED: Good commentary.)
  • Gary Marbut — bless his bold and principled heart — does it again. This time, he makes the Wall St. Journal.
  • “The Good Short Life.” Touching.
  • Cops are at it again, too. Portable facial-recognition and iris-scanning devices. Another gift of USACorp’s perpetual war machine.
  • While junque shopping, I really would have bought that set of five poker-playing dog prints (especially “Pinched with Four Aces.”) They were too expensive (and does anybody really need five framed poker-playing dog prints?). But I got curious about the history of the famous pix. So here’s it. Started life as cigar ads; somehow that’s not surprising. The header photo — not of dogs — is strange and vaguely NSFW. But a fun read.
  • This factoid must scare the designer pants off those folks who believe consumer spending is the One True Measure of a healthy economy. (Oops. The link may not take you directly to the intended factoid, even though it should. It’s factoid 39: According to Moody’s Analytics, the wealthiest 5 percent of all U.S. households now account for approximately 37 percent of all consumer spending.)
  • Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite.”
  • Joel does it again: “Embrace the Chaos.”

Oh yeah. Two new chapters of Jake MacGregor’s The Advisor went up today — 15 and 16. Thanks to the speedy kindness of Oliver Del Signore, The Advisor also has an additional navigation system so those of us who prefer not to “do” JavaScript can scoot from chapter to chapter more easily. Jake, now go take care of those Italian orphans!