• The biggest policy mistake of the last decade (The Week) Austerity sucks.
• Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters (The New York Times) Looks like they are all repairable, but history shows that it might be years, and it will be tens of millions of dollars.
• Obama’s Resistance to Investigating the Bush Administration Allowed Brett Kavanaugh to Skate Onto the Supreme Court (The Intercept) No action on his support for torture and illegal surveillance
• How Real Estate Segregated America (Dissent Magazine) As if there wasbn’t ebough reason to reexamine our subsidies to real estate developers.
• Setting The Record Straight On Why Fighter Jets Can’t All Simply Fly Away To Escape Storms (The Drive) Because a lot of these planes are waiting to be fixed and cannot fly, and the F-22 has the worst availability of any fighter in the American arsenal.
• You’ve been grating cheese all wrong! (Daily Mail Online) Put the box grater on its side.

I got handed an Ayn Rand sandwich straight from a can it tasted so bland I asked a lass to pass me a glass of Engel’s Conditions of the Working Class: