9.21.2018

This Week

Capitalism's race to the bottom

Your wireless carrier is definitely throttling video, but not because of network congestion (Verizon's the worst). More details here: They’re all in on it

Payday Loans Are Coming For Everyone

Deceptive packaging makes it look like you are getting 3 pens, but there's only one in the box

















Politics

Beto O’Rourke Is Crafting His Own Mythology
Cruz, meanwhile, is still the guy about whom a Republican colleague once said, “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.” Pretty much everyone in Texas knows who Cruz is, and he isn’t particularly beloved. A recent Emerson College poll found that 44 percent of Texas voters had an unfavorable opinion of him. (This is in a state where he got 57 percent of the vote in 2012.) 
O'Rourke is getting the press and may have a chance but the main story here is that our country is so screwed-up that he is still behind a person as detested as Ted Cruz.

With Supreme Court Decision on Dark Money "We're About to Know a Lot More About Who Is Funding Our Elections - Maybe.... Big Money and Big Power have a way of getting around laws like this.


Inequality

Rich Folk are nuts -  The $675,000 License Plate


Healthcare

Best healthcare system in the world my ass. These Are the Economies With the Most (and Least) Efficient Health Care - Medicare for all !!


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