Link. Love how he squashed his Pence-bot.
Daily Archives: October 8, 2017
April Parks, predatory “guardian” of Nevada elderly.
Link. Evil beyond Steven King’s imagination.
Bannon on the outside – burn the town down.
Link. GOP ever more white nationalist.
Weinstein: “I guarantee there are many more rocks to overturn.”
Link. People want stars to worship.
Taliban war on Afghan healthcare.
Link. Curious. Too western?
China’s net censorship ever more like Mao
Link. North Korea as control ideal
Swedish prisoner of Saharan kidnappers tells story of 6y survival.
Link. Ransom-based business with Al Qaeda branding.
The science of bias and a roadmap for progress
A NYT piece on how bias works at law firms summarizes evidence-based research.
It is consistent with the hypothesis that the more a new employee resembles their superiors the more effective they will be.
I read this from the same NYT RSS stream that included an article about frustrated women staring more independent businesses.
That startup effort runs into obstacles to all business startups. We know startups have been in decline for over a decade. The suspects are burdensome regulations, lack of affordable health care outside of large corporations, effective use of financial and political weapons by large corporations, and increasing monopoly and monopsony powers of megacorps without antitrust responses.
There ought to be room for political compromise to support small business startups for all and particularly non-white-males. ObamaCare or single payor for health coverage. Regulatory rationalization. Startup support including packaged plans. Aggressive antitrust. Tax reform. Political and campaign contribution reform.
Of course all of these are far more likely to come from Dem than GOP — although the western GOP ( Utah, etc) would support some. I read several of these in Clinton’s policy proposals, though they didn’t get any media attention.
If America survives the Trump era, and a new party replaces the GOP, there is at least a roadmap. Now all we need is a miracle.
The science of bias – analyzing law firms
Link. Easier to be effective if one matches the bosses
Truce in Kurdish-Iraqi split
Link. Rare moment of sanity in 2017.
ISIS in defeat: now mass surrender.
Link. Curious.