Links for 5/30/18

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MGB: It should be a controversial estimate, but only MSW and Rachel Maddow care about Puerto Rico. I suspect that we will never know because their governor is an idiot and because NEJM has likely underestimated refugees who fled to America. The only way to really know would be to add a question to the Census and see who claims to have fled. Other than that, the responsible parities in the PR government would actually have to leave San Juan and see what is happening elsewhere, and they seem incapable of doing that.

In Houston, rich people take care of themselves, although I don't doubt the government took care of them too.  FEMA should buy out everyone in the spillway for the dam, because hurricanes do strike twice.

Unions need to transform, no matter what happens in Janus. Unless they get really smart about pushing for employee-ownership and cooperative consumption, their model will become more and more out of date.

The lost children meme is tragic. ICE probably need not track the placement of children with their relatives but it absolutely must track those that have been put in shelters. There is more to the details than the headlines show.

The Pope's statements on one particular gay man being beautifully made very much need to be amplified and Ratzinger's CDF remark about intrinsic disorder (which in the end, is only one dicastry leader's opinion, not doctrine) rejected, once and for all. Then the implications should be explored. The Anachronists will hate that.

Bravo to Ted for profiling Sister Jean Dolores.  May her revolutionary zeal for Christ be an example to women to whom such an example resonates.

Whether the summit is on or off depends on the way the wind is blowing at National Airport.

The Watergate babies should have cooperated more with President Carter, but they were all amateurs. The Budget and Impoundment Control Act, which invented the Budget Resolution and all the unnecessary process that allows members to gum up the works was passed before the class of 74 was elected or sworn in the following January. Lawrence has no idea what he is talking about. He is pushing for a unitary executive, like that would be coherent with the current POTUS in charge (who is even more of an idiot than Lawrence).

The big takeaway on Memorial Day is that it marked a new piece among white veterans of the Civil War that allowed Jim Crow to come about and is echoed in the slaughter of black men by police, including veterans.