DL Open Thread: Sun., Feb. 16, 2020

Barr Drives Top Corruption Prosecutor Out Of DOJ.  Pack the courts, emasculate the Department of Justice. Sounds like a monarchy to me.

Bloomberg Hiring Spree Robbing Local Campaigns Of Their Top Operatives.  OK, I’m to the point where I think that what’s best for the D’s is for both Biden and Bloomberg to flame out ASAP.

‘Splatometer’ Reveals Huge Decline In Insect Population.  Contrary to what you might think, this is very bad for, um, Earth.

How Private Equity Firms Destroy Companies.  And destroys lives. This tale of one small grocery chain explains how these private equity firms basically wring all the capital out of a business and put it into their own pockets.  Then they exit the shells if companies that they have destroyed.

Seven Questions For Michael Bloomberg.  I honestly don’t think that Bloomberg is gonna last as a candidate.  Once people hear from him as opposed to his ads, his fate will be that of the dog food company whose ads won awards, but went belly-up.  Why did it go belly-up? ‘Dogs couldn’t stand their food.’ 

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