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Thursday links

Published February 1, 2018 6:08 am by Claire

I never had any idea there were such things as Formula One “grid girls.” Now they’re losing their jobs (because feminism) and they’re not taking it lightly.

She asked for help with postpartum depression. The nurse called the cops instead. (Slate’s take on this is different than yours or mine might be.)

If Bezos and Buffett “lift the veil” on health-care prices, insurers are in trouble.

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Monday links

Published January 29, 2018 8:01 am by Claire

In the “news that shouldn’t be news” department, Utah may legalize free-range parenting.

Data from fitness trackers may have exposed the layout of secret military bases.

Long read, but good one: In promoting the ideas of freedom we’ll get farther by telling stories than by making logical arguments.

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Weekend links

Published January 27, 2018 11:18 am by Claire

LaVoy Finicum’s widow is suing the FBI and Oregon state police. Big time.

“Your papers, please!” The all-American version.

You’ve probably heard that Ursula K. LeGuin died this week. Here’s some wisdom from her on that strange subject known as “spare time” and the even stranger subjects of creative work and life.

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Tuesday links

Published January 23, 2018 1:11 am by Claire

li>Five months of texts missing? That’s nothing. “Losing” or destroying inconvenient evidence is the FBI’s stock in trade says Jim Bovard.

Craft beer. The strangest, happiest economic story in America.

“The myth of the playground pusher.” “Drug-free school zones” are nothing more than an excuse to increase sentences for “crimes” that have nothing to do with schools.

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Monday links

Published January 22, 2018 1:06 am by Claire

Ten habits of logical people.

If an asteroid hits the earth it’ll be all the fault of the government shutdown, sez (try not to be too surprised here) CNN.

They are referring to the asteroid that’s scheduled to miss us by at least 2.6 million miles.

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Thursday-Friday links

Published January 18, 2018 7:32 pm by Claire

Some hospitals, sick of high drug prices, are forming their own non-profit drug manufacturer.

Michael Wolff’s riotously controversial book about the Trump administration has already been signed for a TV series. A sit-com, I assume. (H/T MRJ)

In Mexico, cities are dealing with corruption and violence by effectively seceding and shutting themselves off.

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Midweek links

Published January 17, 2018 7:33 am by Claire

We were worried about our rights when the IRS started using private bill collectors. Did we even consider that the poor IRS might actually lose money on the deal?

Nissan wants to read your mind.

Richard Rahn talks rationally about immigration from sh*tholes (or ratholes or sh*thouses; the claims about Trump’s language are mutating) — and in the process includes three branches of my ancestry. I’m so proud.

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Friday links

Published January 12, 2018 1:32 am by Claire

You’ve heard of the Great Wall of China and Trump’s border wall. But how ’bout the Great Hedge of India? The Brits created it in a futile (but persistent) attempt to halt salt smuggling.

Another city’s red-light camera program bites the dust.

There’s a new surveillance policy for truckers that’s likely to hurt us all.

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Midweek links

Published January 10, 2018 7:22 am by Claire

Between the Equifax breach and the new tax law, this could be a bad year for both fraudulent tax returns and IRS confusion.

In southern California they’re looking for victims in a weather-related mudslide. In Washington state, they’re watching a potentially larger landslide in the making. Local officials are pooh-poohing the potential impact; geologists and geophysicists are saying, “Close the damn freeway NOW and prepare for Yakima to flood.”

GetRichSlowly.org: Hopping off the hedonic treadmill.

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Tuesday links

Published January 9, 2018 1:03 am by Claire

James Damore (remember him?) has just filed a class-action suit against Google, alleging the company discriminates against conservative white males. That could get interesting.

I love movies. But I am so freakin’ sick of whiny, hypocritical actresses lamenting how difficult their privileged lives are and congratulating themselves for the “courage” of their #MeTooing and their black gowns red carpet that I’m thinking about giving up my Netflix and going cold turkey.

In case you didn’t already know it, the NFL boycott is real and significant

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