~ Lord
Jim a Jozef Conrad novel of Polish fame
Typical of Harrold Acton, in a mortal moment, to recall a friend’s death and a tag from Renard. About the impact of the war on his life, Acton says:
Typical of Harrold Acton, in a mortal moment, to recall a friend’s death and a tag from Renard. About the impact of the war on his life, Acton says:
“The war jolted me out of my ego but it did not increase my self-confidence. If I gained anything it was humility and tolerance of people who would have bored or repelled me in civilian life, but I lost rather more than I gained. In most of us, as Saint-Beuve remarked, there is a poet who died young – a poet we survive. The mere fact of war suffocated the poet in me. It taught me how to wait when I did not have much to wait for, but it never impelled me to write. For me art is the highest truth and I have always lived more intensely through works of art. And art is silenced by mechanized modern warfare. Now I felt with de Vigny: `Seul le silence est grand; tout le reste est faiblesse.’ [`Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.’]”
Via Czech, not Czechia, Radio: The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse ...
Via Czech, not Czechia, Radio: The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse ...
Sweet drug clears cholesterol, reverses heart disease—and was found by parents Ars technica
This Low-Tech Trap For Killing Mosquito Eggs Is Brilliant Gizmodo
Really, what harm can another cigarette tax hike or two do? (map: “Prevalence of illicit tobacco in 2013,” Francesco Calderoni) Tobacco is human rights issue, claims a Georgetown Law center on health and law;
Government (including the writers of school lunch regulations) has pushed us toward a less healthy diet, part 73: the case for full-fat milk is looking stronger than ever [Time]
“Obama’s latest food crackdown: Salt” [Helena Bottemiller Evich, Politico]
Paternalist objections to the assumption of risk doctrine, and some answers [Avihay Dorfman via Benjamin Zipursky]
Vaping as dangerous as smoking? Really? Jacob Sullum challenges Dr. Margaret Cuomo;
Australian physicians group urges drastic new restrictions on alcohol access, including higher purchase age, 0.0 blood alcohol driving limit, “interventions” for pregnant women [Sydney Morning Herald]
Forbes: IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes, by Robert W. Wood:
Tenured Rutgers Law Prof Suspended From Practice Of Law For Misappropriating Client Funds
In the Matter of Aaron Ari Afilalo, 2016 NY Slip Op 02727 (NY App. Div. Apr. 12, 2016): Respondent, Aaron Ari Afilalo, was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York by the First Judicial Department on January 23, 1995. ...
Just Like Human Skin, This Plastic Sheet Can Sense And Heal NPR (David L). Terminators are coming!
Turning up to work sick could be costing the economy billions Sydney Morning Herald
Unlike most European countries, the Czech Republic has lacked a one-word version of its name in foreign languages. Now, the country is set to use the name Czechia in English, Tschechien in German or Tchequie in French," translations of "Cesko" in Czech Lunatic are in charge of Czechia or was that Czechnya
It is not easy to be old in most countries and it is going to get even harder. Lambert long ago identified the solution that neoliberal answer to social safety nets: “Go die.” So if you get to be old, you must either be adequately well off or suffer the consequences of not having been mercenary or competitive enough. By David Bacon, a journalist and photographer covering labor, immigration, and the impact of the global economy on workers. For this article, he received a Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a program of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America, sponsored by The Scan Foundation. Originally published at Dollars & Sense
Citigroup, Wells Fargo Swap Bad-Boy Role WSJ
Low-income Americans spend as much as $400 to get tax refund, report finds
Real estate agents have been prosecuted for fraudulently taking $2.6 million in rental bonds, strata fees, home sales and deposits, including one real estate agent who illegally took $789,000 Renters encouraged to go online to avoid rental bond fraud
Australia Post trials parcel delivery by drones: Who is in Charge?
Low-income Americans spend as much as $400 to get tax refund, report finds
Real estate agents have been prosecuted for fraudulently taking $2.6 million in rental bonds, strata fees, home sales and deposits, including one real estate agent who illegally took $789,000 Renters encouraged to go online to avoid rental bond fraud
Australia Post trials parcel delivery by drones: Who is in Charge?Turning up to work sick could be costing the economy billions Sydney Morning Herald
Unlike most European countries, the Czech Republic has lacked a one-word version of its name in foreign languages. Now, the country is set to use the name Czechia in English, Tschechien in German or Tchequie in French," translations of "Cesko" in Czech Lunatic are in charge of Czechia or was that Czechnya
It is not easy to be old in most countries and it is going to get even harder. Lambert long ago identified the solution that neoliberal answer to social safety nets: “Go die.” So if you get to be old, you must either be adequately well off or suffer the consequences of not having been mercenary or competitive enough. By David Bacon, a journalist and photographer covering labor, immigration, and the impact of the global economy on workers. For this article, he received a Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a program of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America, sponsored by The Scan Foundation. Originally published at Dollars & Sense
Dozens of Senior Citizens Were Arrested at ‘Democracy Spring’ DC Protests Vice Not big numbers, so far. However, it’s important that some seniors have decided to put their bodies on the line; when the regime beats down the grandparents on TV, cracks tend to appear in elite legitimacy. (I know that’s not fair, but that’s how it is.)
Really, what harm can another cigarette tax hike or two do? (map: “Prevalence of illicit tobacco in 2013,” Francesco Calderoni) Tobacco is human rights issue, claims a Georgetown Law center on health and law;
Government (including the writers of school lunch regulations) has pushed us toward a less healthy diet, part 73: the case for full-fat milk is looking stronger than ever [Time]
“Obama’s latest food crackdown: Salt” [Helena Bottemiller Evich, Politico]
Paternalist objections to the assumption of risk doctrine, and some answers [Avihay Dorfman via Benjamin Zipursky]
Vaping as dangerous as smoking? Really? Jacob Sullum challenges Dr. Margaret Cuomo;
Australian physicians group urges drastic new restrictions on alcohol access, including higher purchase age, 0.0 blood alcohol driving limit, “interventions” for pregnant women [Sydney Morning Herald]
The record price for an Australian terrace house has been smashed with the $13 million sale of a four-bedroom, five-bathroom property in Sydney’s Potts Point. And the huge price – almost double the previous $7.3 million Sydney record for designer Collette Dinnigan’s Paddington terrace in 2011 – is being attributed to the stunning renovation and the Kings Cross area becoming more of a family-friendly area due to the lockout laws. Record price for Australian terrace as Potts Point home sells for $13 million
The University of Sydney is investigating a string of social media comments racially vilifying international students allegedly posted by a head tutor at the university's School of Business. Corporate finance tutor Wu Wei has been accused of calling his Chinese students "international pigs" and "chinks" with low IQs in blogs posts to the China-based social media sites Weibo and WeChat, first published by USyd news site Honi Soit. International students
Are Banks creating systemic risks - paper by Jon Danielsson, Kevin R. James, Marcela Valenzuela, and Ilknur Zer, forthcoming in the JMCB, here is the abstract:
Since increasing a bank’s capital requirement to improve the stability of the financial system imposes costs upon the bank, a regulator should ideally be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that banks classified as systemically risky really do create systemic risk before subjecting them to this capital punishment. Evaluating the performance of two leading systemic risk models, we show that estimation error alone prevents the reliable identification of the most systemically risky banks. We conclude that it will be a considerable challenge to develop a riskometer that is both sound and reliable enough to provide an adequate foundation for macroprudential policy.
Here is their broader piece on models of systemic risk. Paul Krugman had a good argument today in his column on this topic
Eric Turkewitz has collaborated with other law bloggers on a series of April Fool’s blog hoaxes, but this year many bloggers sat out his joke about Donald Trump suits against the press. Sort of a canary in the coal mine right there [Paul Alan Levy]
Eric Turkewitz has collaborated with other law bloggers on a series of April Fool’s blog hoaxes, but this year many bloggers sat out his joke about Donald Trump suits against the press. Sort of a canary in the coal mine right there [Paul Alan Levy]
Forbes: IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes, by Robert W. Wood:
This
isn’t exactly the kind of story the IRS wants buzzing around at tax
time. The IRS and Justice Department normally want ‘scared straight’
stories just before Tax Day. Ideally, when an indictment or conviction
for tax evasion hits the news, it makes you think twice. Somehow, you
think just a bit more about all those deductions, or if you really
reported all your income, before you sign your return under penalties of
perjury.
Tonight, April 11th, please join us for our 7th Annual NYU Tax Movie Night! This year’s event is titled The IRS as Sitcom Star and will examine how IRS agents and other employees have been portrayed in different classic television sitcom series over several decades. The episodes featured are from The Jack Benny Program (1964), The Andy Griffith Show (1965), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and Roseanne (1990). Professor Lawrence Zelenak, the Pamela B. Gann Professor of Law at Duke Law School, will join us as a special guest speaker and will lead a discussion following the screening. Professor Joshua Blank, NYU Law, will moderate. Refreshments, including popcorn, will be served.
Peter Reilly, TheDirty.com Editor Nik Richie Loses In Tax Court. Oh, to have tax troubles arising from blog income.
Tenured Rutgers Law Prof Suspended From Practice Of Law For Misappropriating Client Funds
In the Matter of Aaron Ari Afilalo, 2016 NY Slip Op 02727 (NY App. Div. Apr. 12, 2016): Respondent, Aaron Ari Afilalo, was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York by the First Judicial Department on January 23, 1995. ...
Meet the man turning Goldman Sachs into a ‘frictionless’ machine Business Insider
Wall Street’s Fraud of the Week Club Richard Eskow, CAF
Why You Should Care About Big Banks Cutting Deals with the Feds to Avoid Prosecution Vice. Another cost-of-doing-business fine. Investors get nothing, traders keep their bonuses, no CEOs in jail. And so many people’s homes are gone.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Introduces Tax Filing Simplification Bill Hitting For-Profit Companies International Business Times
Crude congestion Reuters. Malchkeon maps of global tanker congestion.
As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black. Hear from three of those writers, explore the data and help us host better conversations online
The dark side of Guardian comments
As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black. Hear from three of those writers, explore the data and help us host better conversations online
The dark side of Guardian comments