September 15, 2017 6:10 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, September 15, 2017
9/11 came and went while many of us were sheltering from Hurricane Irma. The trickle of the rain reminds me of this piece at American Digest by Gerard Van der Leun. Of course, everything Gerard does is head and shoulders above all of us who think we can write, but this is still one of my favorites about that terrible day.
- Equifax will now be the first slide at every CyberSec conference from now to Kingdom Come. In a clown car. With glitter.
- Watch out for post-storm scammers.
- New Atlanta master plan.
- Before there was Irma, there was DragonCon. Check out the pix.
- We have fake grass, fake pine straw, fake news, fake boobs, and now fake servers.
- Evidently, they didn’t hear all those ATL commercials about FOG awhile back on the wireless.
- Well, duh. (ESPN to the white courtesy phone, please.)
- Shazam! Now where’s my raise?
- If we’re going to play that game…
- Been mulling this a bit. The answer is still – Nope. Nope. Nope.
- Inconvenient Trivia: Stonewall was a Confederate general. Can I still say that?
- Diversity!
- If the new iPhone facial recognition follows standard authentication requirements, do we all have to get plastic surgery every 90 days?
- Just put down all liquids and watch. You’re welcome.
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Somebody help me understand why Harvard honored Chelsea Manning by offering her some sort of Visiting Speaker status…
Invite rescinded.
“I now think that designating Chelsea Manning as a Visiting Fellow was a mistake, for which I accept responsibility,” Douglas W. Elmendorf, the school’s dean, wrote in a 700-word statement released shortly after midnight Friday.
“Elmendorf decided to withdraw the invitation after realizing that “many people view a Visiting Fellow title as an honorific,” though the school had not intended to “honor [Manning] in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds.”
(Washington Post)
Similarly, the Campus Reform piece shows over-reach. A lot of colleges are trying to do something that should have been done in elementary school- facilitate social intelligence; i.e. help kids understand other kids, and teach productive social interaction. For those students who think that’s divisive- I would bet a good chunk of change that they are the students who would benefit most greatly from such exercises.
Another week of the high standards of GOP governance of the country comes to a close….
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“The U.S. Office of Government Ethics has quietly reversed its own internal policy prohibiting anonymous donations from lobbyists to White House staffers who have legal defense funds” http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/13/trump-ethics-watchdog-legal-defense-242690 Is that crickets, or my tinnitus?
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How about Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, net worth $300M, preparing a letter requesting a government plane that could cost $25k / hr hour to chauffeur him about Europe on his honeymoon? The letter surfaced during investigation of his travel after he and the new misses took a government plane to Ft Knox to see the eclipse: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-requested-government-jet-european-honeymoon/story?id=49777076 Crickets I think.
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At least the establishment GOP was loud and clear on this one: Mitch McConnell stated to the NYT that the blue slip should “ought to simply be a notification of how you’re going to vote” despite the GOP doing so block Obama judicial nominations. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/350553-mcconnell-blue-slips-shouldnt-blackball-circuit-court-nominees
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The GOP establishment has got to be proud!
Goodbye Cassini and thanks for a hell of a job.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/cassini-mission-ends/index.html
RE: Equifax. Here’s a company that has devoted its life to finding out as much information about every possible individual, insinuating themselves into just about every transaction, and then selling that information to pretty much all buyers. This scandal has legs, if for no other reason than that most of the affected 143 million souls know that little detail about what used to be a company called Retail Credit. And they resent it.