Weekend link dump for March 18

Ichiro Suzuki is one of the most fascinating people, not just baseball players, you’ll ever hear about.

Microsoft is trying to kill the password, and it’s about time.”

“Civil society requires the toleration of the expression of opposing viewpoints, no matter how personally discomforting you may find them. Therefore, it would be profoundly hypocritical for the editorial staff of the New York Times opinion section not to immediately invite me to come to their offices to call them all morons and trolls.”

Lying liar Hans von Spakovsky continues to lie a lot.

There’s another big abortion-related case before the Supreme Court.

You can now permanently turn off sound on websites in Chrome.

“Why has so little changed in almost 20 years since Columbine? I don’t know. Why has so little changed since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook where 20 children and 6 adults were gunned down in cold blood? I cannot understand. Why has the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida galvanized the nation? Because now, it is our innocent children leading the fight for meaningful change.”

“When you go to work in the White House, you divest yourself of your secrets for the same reason you divest yourself of your financial holdings: so people can’t blackmail you. Though the emphasis on Trump’s taxes may have seemed to many voters a secondary issue, the Stormy Daniels scandal shows why they mattered.”

RIP, Floyd Carter, Sr., Tuskegee Airman and NYPD veteran.

Jeffrey Toobin explains why you shouldn’t take that OJ Simpson interview seriously.

“From 1999 to 2015, more than 1,000 15-year-olds married in Missouri. Of those, The Star’s review of data shows, more than 300 married men age 21 or older, with some in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Assuming they had premarital sex, those grooms would be considered rapists.

“Let me put it to you this way. Which would you rather have: a bumbler who disagrees with Donald Trump from time to time, or a seemingly efficient bureaucrat who agrees with him almost all of the time? Because we had the former in Rex Tillerson, and soon, in [Mike] Pompeo, we will have the latter, and that’s a lot more dangerous.”

“But at the present time, Lamb’s performance in Pennsylvania 18 is merely the latest sign Democrats are surging right now, spelling trouble for Republicans heading into the midterm elections.”

RIP, Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and much more.

“Google will ban online advertisements promoting cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings starting in June, part of a broader crackdown on the marketing of a new breed of high-risk financial products.”

RIP, Augie Garrido, college baseball’s winningest coach.

Even peak Jerry Springer couldn’t have come up with this.

“Avenatti is giving a master class on how to create a great scandal.”

RIP, Rep. Louise Slaughter, longtime member of Congress from New York.

RIP, Ed Charles, the “heart and soul” of the 1969 Miracle Mets.

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