Odds and Ends — 8 June 2022

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Un Chien Andalou

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Wage Gap Grows Even Wider

The wage gap between chief executives and workers at some of the US companies with the lowest-paid staff grew even wider last year, with CEOs making an average of $10.6 million, while the median worker received $23,968.

’We’re all afraid’: Massive rent increases hit mobile homes

Surging home prices and rents are cascading down to the country’s mobile home parks, where heightened demand, low supply and an increase in corporate owners is driving up monthly costs for low-income residents with few alternatives. At the same time, private-equity firms and developers are often circling nearby, looking to buy up such properties and turn them into more lucrative ventures, including timeshare resorts, wedding venues and condominiums.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

French medics protest hospital crisis, deepened by COVID

Japan to open to tourists after COVID, with masks, insurance and chaperones required

Meanwhile, in the land of splinters:


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With the Reverse Speed (and Heavy Hitters) rule set in play, why use fast monsters (36 mana, Fire, Earth, and Water splinters available)?


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Furious Chicken saves the day (26 mana, Armored Up and Equalizer rule sets).

Politics:

What We Know About The Focus Of The Jan. 6 Committee Public Hearings

Adventures in Irony

Steve Bannon, set to go to trial next month for defying a congressional subpoena, has subpoenaed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection as he builds his defense.

GOP divided on how to defend Trump ahead of first Jan. 6 hearing

One faction wants to ignore the proceedings. Another thinks some direct counterprogramming is necessary.

Longtime Trump assistant contradicts his sworn statement in New York investigation

Official Says Trump Was Trying to Impose Martial Law

I believe Trump intended to incite an insurrection as a pretext for declaring some form of martial law. He mused about invoking the Insurrection Act YEARS before Jan 6 — calling it a 'magic power' — in convos I witnessed & was briefed on.

Stalemate not an option for Ukraine - Zelensky

How the defense of Trump foretells a possible new GOP era of extremism

The committee is expected to mount a devastating case about Trump’s behavior as he tried to steal the 2020 election in the run-up to and during the January 6 assault on the Capitol, which he incited and didn’t act to stop as lawmakers ran for their lives.
There are potential pitfalls for Republicans who stand with Trump as the lurid tale of violence, lies and autocratic power grabs is told again for the American people and for the benefit of history. The evidence could be so damning that those who seek to discredit the hearings will find themselves defending the indefensible – a dark moment of the American story that is so heinous it will live in infamy.

During Watergate, John Mitchell Left His Wife. She Called Bob Woodward

’Please nail him’: The untold story of how Martha Mitchell took revenge against her husband

The Lie That Helped Kill the Labor Movement

In 1969, a rogue attorney for the National Labor Relations Board undermined a critical piece of labor law. Fifty years later, the Biden administration is trying to reverse the damage caused by that decision.

Serendipity:

As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’

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