Linkage

• Restructuring Bankruptcy Law (The Regulatory Review) The article pertains to personal bankruptcy, and there are good proposals for making filing more humane.  Now how about tightening up corporate bankruptcies? (F%$# the whole Sackler Clan)
• The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy (POLITICO) Not an article that I expected from Tiger Beat on the Potomac.
• New route for COVID-19 into human cells found by scientists (Nature) The modern Andromeda strain can also attack through the aptly named RAGE receptor.
• Conventional cars more reliable than EVs – report (The Register) Consumer Reports noted this, and hybrids are more reliable than both.  My slightly informed guess is that, because the batteries and motors are driven harder in full EVs, both by loads when used and by the need to charge rapidly, it extracts a toll in reliability.
• Uvalde shooting shows contrast in preparedness between students and police (The Texas Tribune) Elementary school kids knew what to do, and the cops did not.  Clearly it would be insanity to defund the police, because who else is going to sit on their hands for an hour and seventeen minutes while a killer on the rampage murders children?
• Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive (Current Affairs) Money quote is in the subhead, "Though he’s often imagined as a beacon of progress, his feckless record shows otherwise."  He's a progressive like Nancy Pelosi is, which is to say, not at all on the big things.
• Pedophiles for Purdue Pharma  (Pluralistic) Cory Doctorow observes that the amicus briefs in favor of letting the Sackler family off of the hook in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case is a plethora of pervert predator purveyors of pedophilia like the Boy Scouts and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Have a dose of the surreal: