A SUPERB piece of reporting that hit me like a ton of bricks. Where "you are there" on a factory floor for a couple of days as two robots are tried out to come in to do the work of unreliable and hard-to-hire-and-keep low-wage humans depressed about their lives. The robots, cheaper than the low-wage humans, do it well, and two more are ordered. Just the realities, in one example.
This is a crib sheet on a fascinating American popular culture meme about boy-men that I have totally missed. I caught it on their "most popular" list. Besides its application to current political stories, it also seems to have some things going on with male boomers' disappointment with their millennial sons. The beginning excerpted:
Two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers traveled to London earlier this summer to track down the former British intelligence operative who compiled a controversial dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday announced a government-wide crackdown on leakers, which will include a review of the Justice Department’s policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish sensitive information.
US President Donald Trump should stop conducting his international diplomacy on Twitter, Chinese state media said in a widely-published editorial, syndicated across the country.
Fascinating at-length story from leakers about a 2-hour July 19 meeting with military brass. Highly recommended for any with illusions that Generals have a special influence over Trump. (Hints: He's an equal opportunity bully except for the wait staff at the 21 Club; he has great respect for advice from the latter.)
The US government is not seeking a regime change in North Korea, the secretary of state says, amid tensions over Pyongyang's weapons programme. "We're not your enemy," Rex Tillerson said, adding that the US wanted a dialogue at some point [....]
Pyongyang claimed that its latest missile test could hit the US west coast and beyond.
Edited in new headline; Former headline: Senators Begin Bipartisan Effort to Bolster Obamacare.
Starting to look like there's more grownups in the Senate than at first glance: The Senate health committee will begin drafting legislation to stabilize and strengthen the individual insurance market, its Republican chairman said
A Republican congressman from Colorado on Monday declared that the Republican Party is “dead,” arguing it “no longer has a vision for a better America.”
