Wednesday, June 21, 2017

@9:00, 6/21/17

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1
Magazine

Should I Help an Unjustly Fired Co-Worker?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on weighing sacrifice against benefit when trying to aid a colleague or your own grandmother, and more.

Kwame Anthony Appiah is giving good advice.

2
Magazine

Letter of Recommendation: Revenge

Without maiming anyone or going to jail, you can correct systemic wrongs.

The pattern of proportionate revenge demands more knowledge than I have.

3
Travel

How to Survive Airport Security

No one enjoys the process. But here is list of pointers to help keep you sailing through security as efficiently as possible, and with minimal stress.

Mindfulness and a checked bag may be a better way.

4
Arts

Stephen Colbert Doesn’t Want to See Sean Spicer Go

“Sean, I have so many questions,” Mr. Colbert said of the White House press secretary, who may be replaced. “If you go, who will not answer them?”

Entertainment is only a byproduct of government.

5
Fashion & Style

A Transgender Groom Sees Beyond What He Ever Imagined

I figured people like me were not supposed to be in love or marry. I started to hate love stories and weddings.

I had to process.

Love is.

6
Times Insider

‘Our Phones Are Being Monitored’: How a Hacking Story Unfurled

A report on government spyware targeting Mexican activists began when a human rights lawyer met with The Times and took all the phones outside the room.

The govement of Mexico does not function.

7
U.S.

There Goes the Gayborhood

Neighborhoods that were once incubators for the gay rights movement have been gentrified, leading to angst about the effects on the L.G.B.T.Q. community.

The observation is good.
The historical analysis is not good.

Careful thought must go into selecting a location.

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U.S.

Senate Democrats Try to Gum Up Works Over Affordable Care Act Repeal

With few arrows in their quiver, Democrats plan to use a slowdown to fight the secrecy surrounding Republican efforts to repeal and replace the health law.

The proposed Republican Health legislation is disastrous.
Any measure that prevents its passage into law is good.
Single payer would be a better program if it were politically possible.

9
Business Day

Morning Agenda: Barclays Charged with Fraud

The accusations are tied to about $11 billion that the bank had received from Qatar as it tried to avoid being nationalized.

The English government will survive without Barclay's Bank.
Barclay's bank cannot survive without government help.

10 
Opinion

Where Are the Rape-Kit Nurses?

There’s a huge backlog of sexual-assault tests. But there also aren’t enough people to conduct them in the first place.

Misogyny is prevalent where sex is an industry.

Rape is considered an external cost under all circumstances.

The point of the externalization of costs is their exclusion from balance sheets.


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