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On my mind: enter laughing – words to travel by.
Hacks:
- Aeroplan changes: interview with the CEO on what to expect in 2020.
- New American Express Platinum Benefit: Flight Discounts Including United. (Not really.)
- Manufactured spend musical chairs.
Travels:
- There are no real roads in Guadalupe Park. You earn the incredible views.
- Delta and WestJet to create new transborder joint venture.
- James Bond casual style – stay cool in summer like 007.
Events:
- The new toll of American student debt in 3 charts.
- With Trump in the White House, candidates who sound like him hit the campaign trail.
- Narwhals are real, and they could be in real trouble.
Ideas:
- Nike says its $250 running shoes will make you run much faster. What if that’s actually true?
- Who is paying for the next Supreme Court justice?
- The United States of Arms (see on TBB):
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The Post piece on the Supreme Court nomination is strange. It suggests it’s a problem that we don’t know who is paying for ads supporting or opposing the nomination, but spends most of the article detailing who is paying for ads supporting or opposing the nomination. The suggestion this lobbying has consequences is the assertion that the confirmed nominee will be beholden to supporters, though there’s never any explanation of how this might be the case for a completely unaccountable judge with life tenure. (And if the spending were secret, how would the judge know whom to be beholden to?)… Read more »
@Gary Leff – you did more analysis than the piece’s author. I took it as a list of the groups with money arraying on different sides of the nomination pf interest for the list itself, and agree with you on the assertion of what the money may achieve and not. I personally do not want this person, more along the lines of Bush v Gore, Citizens United, Heller and so on is not my political aspiration, but this process is what it is. Justice Kennedy decided to put his seat in the hands of the sitting U.S. President and that’s… Read more »