Linkage

• Fridge sends spam emails as attack hits smart gadgets (BBC) Yes, this brave new world of smart gadgets is such an amazing step forward. H/T ECop at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
• N.J. bridge scandal proves the need for dogged local journalism (Rachel Maddow at the Washington Post)
• Yuriko Koike criticizes democratic countries' indifference to the threat posed by the Thai opposition's strategy of protest (Project Syndicate) Former Japanese Minister of Defense condemns Thai protests as an assault on democracy.

This is more the 'tude of Destructo (the male, almost not a kitten) rather than Meatball (or Mouse Trap, my wife and I disagree^*)



^*It doesn't really matter, they do not come when they are called.