Tuesday links

A few links for a change. Some are new, a few I’ve been saving for you …

• So-called Modern Monetary Theory will be a Modern Monetary Disaster, as anybody beyond the pink unicorn stage of development can see.
• Speaking of which, the NYT reports that Venezuela’s inflation is now worse than Zimbabwe’s. They still can’t bring themselves to use the “S” word, though they admit that the “economic policies” of Chavez and Maduro may have something to do with the problem.
• John Wick Part III, aka Parabellum was released last Friday. Seems everybody, including Rolling Stone has high praise. Seen it yet?
• CNN is correct: The new model of SAT scoring is a PC monstrosity. But CNN being CNN, they’re right for all the wrong reasons. Here’s LifeZette’s more rational view.
• Glenn Harlan Reynolds calls Twitter a virus of the mind.
• Big Brother remembers your face. (Parts of this are weird and funny.)
• San Francisco Authoritah attacks a journalist for refusing to reveal his source. Ain’t it funny how “liberal” or “progressive” policies always end up being top-down authoritarian and scornful of long-established liberties?
• You may have also heard that the famous Grumpy Cat died a few days ago. Borepatch says it was a conspiracy … and you-know-who was behind it. (She was only seven years old — and who knew she was a she?).
• And speaking of the unusual dead, what about the curious case of the bog bodies?
• My Finnish neighbor tells me that “Kalsarikannit” is the latest reason her notoriously dour countrymen keep getting polled as the happiest people on earth. Um … I don’t think so. Still, I’ll bet your country doesn’t have 50 of its own exclusive emojis.
• Sixty dogs with real jobs.