- Fundamental Baptist church pastors cover up sex abuse, rape (McClatchy) In God we tryst.
- Study ‘Proves’ Parachutes Don’t Save People Who Fall Out of Airplanes (Live Science) This actually appeared in a peer reviewed journal. Ethics prevented them from fling people out of a plane in flight, so they did the study with the plane on the ground, which they noted in the 4th paragraph. It’s a bit of meta about how not to write for a scientific journal.
- ‘The Pentagon Has Steadfastly Stonewalled Against Making Its Budget Auditable’ (FAIR) A feature, not a bug.
- The police officer who arrested a president (Washington Post) It was U.Ss Grant, for taking his carriage to dangerous speeds on city streets. This may actually be a legal precedent about arrest of indictment of a sitting president.
- The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I) (naked capitalism) The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in the UK is doing its best to allow money laundering to continue.
- Climate change: The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about (BBC) Cement, the stuff that is mixed with sand and gravel to make concrete.
- A Bad World for Migrants (and I Don’t Even Mean Human Ones) (Common Dreams) Migratory birds are in a world of hurt.
‘Bohemian Chanukah’, a riff on Queen: