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• The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle (Chronicle of Higher Education) The financial fraud model infiltrates not for profit colleges and universities
  
• Barack Obama Has Been One of the Worst Ex-Presidents Ever (Jacobin) The difference between important, and self-important. "Since his retirement from politics, Barack Obama has displayed an astonishing lack of regard for the public good. Instead of serving his fellow human beings, he has mainly devoted himself to a rigorous program of conspicuous self-celebration."
• The Real Question Is Why Andrew Cuomo Took So Long to Fall | The Nation (The Nation) Zephyr Teachout makes the point that New York's constitution and traditions of government are dysfunctional.
• This Is the Worst Cheap Beer in America, Customers Say in New SurveyBest Life (Best of Life) Milwaukee's Beast. I would have figured that it was Schlitz Dark. 
• A Well Fixer's Story of the California Drought (The Atlantic)“I’ve been putting my camera down three wells a day,” he said. “I used to use the word unprecedented to describe what we’re doing to the land. Now I use the word biblical.”
• Amazing 1,300-Year-Old Technology Found Hidden in Comox Harbour (ComoxValley.News) Stakes in the sea bed reveal very sophisticated fish traps in British Columbia Canada that are hundreds of years old.
• A 25-foot-tall rubber duck suddenly appeared in a Maine harbor. Residents have no idea why. (Business Insider) News that makes you smile.
• How the Pentagon Quietly Turned Half a Billion Dollars Into $32,000 (War Is Boring) $500,000,000 spent on Lockheed's version of an Italian transport plane which are sent to Afghanistan, where they molder for lack of support and are sold as scrap. No one cares, because Lockheed gets its vig.
  

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