Thursday links

• Whatever you think (or whether you think) of Caitlyn Jenner, this is good. Seems Caitlyn refuses to toe the politically correct line on victimology.
• Meet the lobbyists who represent the world’s worst dictators to Your Representatives in Washington.
• I failed to acknowledge two very big historic dates earlier this week. First, the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Second, the Boston Tea Party. Here’s an interesting retrospective on the tea party. (Amusing how the Brahmins downplayed it.) And here’s an eyewitness account.
• You, too can evade the no-fly list. (Well, maybe. I’m sure this wouldn’t work for international flights where you have to book using your full passport name. But it certainly shows yet one more folly of using such capricious lists for “national security.”)
• The FBI has saved the nation from an Eeeevil Plot (which of course it enabled) to build an anti-Muslim death ray. Srsly. This is not precisely new news. The story has been trickling out over time. But I missed it first time around and it’s clearly too bizarre to go unnoted.
• Cop who previously made the news for wanting a creepily pornographic photo of a teen sexter commits suicide rather than be arrested for an unrelated case of … of course … pedophilia.
• These are among the coolest tiny houses/huts/studios I’ve seen. One or two have appeared here in links before, but this collection is awesome in its Scandinavian and Japanese styling. Me want. (H/T MJR)
• Armed individuals capture thug, save old man from knife attack.
• And in China, a man uses his money and his passion to save 2,000 dogs from becoming dinner (after, sadly, his own dog may have ended up on a plate).

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