I keep a running log of "just the facts," but I need to
keep it to just a couple of inches, so I'm going to give a slightly expanded
version here of what I read this morning. The big headline (not my
main concern) was "U.S. case against Sen. Yee expands/new racketeering
charges include bribery in 3 bills."
"Health researchers find we (adults)
do clean our plants" We eat 92% of what we put on them; children eat
60% This is in a study on obesity conducted by Katherine Abowd Johnson at
the John Hopkins School of Public Health
"Choke chain n Congress" was an
editorial on the defeat of the Strategic Minerals Legislation proposed by
Stalwell that would have provided government over-sight of rare earth
elements--those 17 kinds that go into our iPhone and have electrons and other
things I don't understand but believe are there. (Poor people in other
countries get over-exposed every day as they go through them. Right now
China has the most "control" of these REE.
More on Air Algiers crash.
"Ex-CIA officials not allowed to see
'torture" report, which was described as "far more brutal than
previously understood...no unique, life saving intelligence was gleaned for the
harsh techniques." Don't we know that those torturing wanted to get
false confessions, not truth?
"Airbnb squatters also on
Kickstarter--Maksym Pashanin vs. Tschogl, a SF rented in Pal Sprints.
(The Pashanin brothers got thousands of dollars for a video game they
never really created for the investors.)
"No swimming in Oakland's Lake
Temescal" because of toxic algae bloom."
Social "Services paying people for
posts." Why?
Amazon vs. Hachette. Amazon is
making huge profits but also suffering losses. I thought that the stocks
had just soared.
John King, Urban Architect critic says
"Proposed big tower should be slimmer/slice square footage to reduce the
mass." This is go be on First Street between Market and
Mission--the 500th block of Mission. He says the usual problem is a great
structure that ignores what's happening at street level, but in the case of
this building, it's the opposite. The street level is fine, but the rest
needs less bulk.
Cubs were born to mate or OR-7.
Bel Kaufman obituary--I'd forgotten that
she was the granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem.
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