Linkage

• Inside Boeing's plans to fix its troubled KC-46A tanker (Breaking Defense) Short version, Boeing still cannot make aircraft.
• Very Ordinary Men (The Point Magazine) A review of Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk in which the reviewer actaully criticizes the biography, and not the man, for producing an uninteresting hagiography.  Money quote, "Walter Isaacson is the perfect writer for the biographies of our times because he appears to be a born sycophant, and fate decreed that he would be in the right position, at the right moment, to spread as much propagandistic bullsh%$ as possible."
• Houston Is Now Less Affordable Than New York City (Texas Monthly) Housing is cheaper, landscaping is cheaper, but transportation for the extremely sprawled metropolis dwarfs those of New York.
• Millions of Dollars of Pharma Money Went to the DSM-5-TR Authors (Mad In America) Another data point showing that the profit motive is to healthcare as Ebola is to French kissing.
• It’s Time To Revisit Price Controls, Beginning with Limits on Overdraft Fees (The Sling) Given the increasingly monopolistic nature of our economy, explicit government price controls have become necessary.
• Why Employees No Longer Feel Loyalty Towards Their Bosses, Employers (Business Insider) Because they realize that there is no reciprocity.
• How VC is busting the Military Industrial Complex — for its own benefit (Responsible Statecraft) If they do for the Pentagon what they did for our economy, the VC types will have us defeated by the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
  

Falling Down is a great movie. I saw as an engineer working in defense who had been laid off. I walked out of the theater feeling like I had been punched in the gut.