I guess the confusion to me is that I don't see how/why the current crop could be more set than during the 06 war, where GWB of all people thought there was a too far. How much is just the president's instincts flowing down and how much is a cultural change? Terrible either way obviously.

Which is bizarre because reigning in your client states shows you have power, constantly saying they should stop and never doing anything is weakness

I am confused by that in general since the history of entire relationship is lots of support but also pressure with leverage to not too far*, how did everyone decide to ignore the leverage part? *for a very specific definition of too far

I am not buying property in Las Vegas I just had another linkedin visit because I share a name with a leading nevada broker

absolutely random but this is a very engaging linkedin about section for a company www.linkedin.com/company/simp...

I am somehow the first person to make that joke here though

Handle character limit means I cannot change to The Late Great Hannibal Hamlin

A small part of a larger work but the privacy leveled (you can barely see people as blurs who don't allow you to) based martian society of Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief is something I think more about as all the AR stuff advances

I disagree, a man is a forum, a philosopher, an architect! Specialization is for ants! Drink the very marrow of life!

There's a good piece someone could write called "the GOP's War on Crime" about the evisceration of honest services law culminating in gratuities being cool