Unbelievable that Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted.

He was the best Holmes. He trumped everyone who came before him, and everyone who has played the role since has done so in his shadow. There is no possible counter-argument. That's it, the end.

Proving that Federico Fellini was largely a documentarian of everyday Italian life. Sound up.

The GOAT of Midwestern bank robbery notes:

1. neat Middle School penmanship, with cheery little circles over each 'i' & superfluous exclamation points!!

2. attempt to legitimize the robbery to the teller, as if to say 'I'm actually a fair & reasonable bank robber'

A pilot in Vancouver that provided unconditional cash to homeless people not only saved more money than it cost, it also reduced drug and alcohol use by 39%. In the India UBI pilot, where entire villages got UBI, drug and alcohol use went down by 12% compared to control villages.

How medieval artists made their pigments: a 2006 poem by Albert Goldbarth.

Ooooh...this is a major escalation. Whenever authorities start punishing family members of mob bosses & autocrats, then 💩 is getting real. The inner circle has been breached. Seizing the wealth of Putin's ex-wife is second only to seizing Putin's own assets. Makes him look weak.

'I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone' by Richard Brautigan

'A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.'
- Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

OK, I'm doing it:consulting Bryan A. Garner's 'Modern American Usage,' bc I can't decide whether 'wracked by poverty' or 'racked by poverty' is correct. Seems like both could work, since wracked=destroyed or wrecked & racked=tortured or oppressed.
Arthur Goldwag? Peter Sokolowski?

How do the rich keep getting richer? One way is by using offshore finance--not only to avoid taxes, but to dodge creditors, court orders, etc.

The rest of us pay the price in the form of higher taxes & borrowing costs.

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Breaking news: The US is on track to grow at double the rate of any other G7 country this year, according to IMF forecasts. on.ft.com/49GI3x8

50th anniversary of a woman being able to get a credit card without the signature of a man ... let that sink in for a bit.

'Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality...'

― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

I did not feel Armageddon in my bones but I worried about all those people who did, who were ready for it, wishing hard, making phone calls and bank withdrawals. If enough people want it to happen, will it happen? How many people are enough people?

- Don DeLillo, White Noise

1/ Part 2 of Decoding the Panama Papers is out now.

Join Brooke Harrington & Herbert Chang 張賀鈞 from @Dartmouth continue the discussion about offshore finance.

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The destruction of Earth is much like disassembling a car no one bothered to learn how to drive, and quickly selling off its parts to make a meagre profit.

The biggest cognitive failure of human civilisation was seeing Earth as a collection of resources, raw materials and…