* “Battle over bare-breasted women brews at one of Maryland’s busiest beaches” Likely SFW, as it’s in the Washington Post, and one gets the sense the writer had a good time with this one. The illustrative photo included shows a seagull, alas. When we fight over this maybe things are pretty good because we have time to worry about the dangers(?) of bare-breasted women on beaches.
* “Automakers Race to Get Ahead of Silicon Valley on Car-Sharing.” Good news all around.
* “How Insurance Companies Can Force Bad Cops Off the Job.” A novel approach to a serious problem.
* “Why Sacrifices by the Rich Won’t Fix Social Welfare;” points rarely made. Notice:
If we look at the overall fiscal position of the U.S. federal government, we are spending beyond our means and the future will require some mix of spending cuts and tax increases. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office: “To close the gap solely by raising revenues would require a revenue increase of about 33 percent, and maintaining that level of revenue, on average, each year over the next 75 years.” I would submit that revenue increases of such magnitude are unlikely or perhaps even impossible, and thus any new spending will have to come out of other government spending. In other words, for better or worse, we’ve already committed to spending that tax increase on the wealthy that you were planning to use for other purposes.
* “Get Congress Back to Legislating, Not Just Budgeting: Yuval Levin, an expert on the budget process, explains how a congressional power grab in the ’70s led to paralysis today.” Again, not the sexiest or most fun piece, but it is essential for understanding what’s amiss in government today.
* “Congressman Is Hit in Multiple Shooting;” maybe something like this is what it will take to get gun control back on the agenda, since Congress may become much more interested in it if Congresspeople have a personal stake. We’ve already somehow decided as a society that routine mass shootings, including mass shootings of children, are just, you know . . . something that happens.
* Pornhub is the Kinsey Report of our time? (At New York Magazine and likely SFW.)
* “Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin,” noting that I don’t understand Ethereum well.
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I like the alliteration on the first title. Battle bare breasted beach.
Not the subject matter, no. Not at all. :D
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Me too. Maybe there’s something comedic about alliteration. There may also be a comedic novel somewhere in that news story.
Elmore Leonard famously got the germ of the idea for Out of Sight from a photo of an attractive federal marshal (I think—or some other kind of cop) in a skirt and holding a shotgun.
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