When Mexicans crossed our border to feed Americans in need - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-mexicans-crossed-our-border-to-feed-our-hungry/2015/08/28/347342e4-4cee-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html

You Really Don’t Need To Work So Much - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-need-to-work-so-much

Why are you not watching ‘Jupiter Ascending’ right now? - The most awesome movie review (?) ever

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/03/05/why-are-you-not-watching-jupiter-ascending-right-now/

A Great Profile of a Genuinely Funny Person (with a great pull quote)

http://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story

The quote:

And then he talked about the Food Network show Chopped. The reason he loves Chopped is that it's a show that is wholly about process, about creation within a limited range of possibilities. "This show," he said, meaning The Late Show, "is Chopped. Late-night shows are Chopped. Who are your guests tonight? Your guests tonight are veal tongue, coffee grounds, and gummy bears. There, make a show.... Make an appetizer that appeals to millions of people. That's what I like. How could you possibly do it? Oh, you bring in your own flavors. Your own house band is another flavor. You have your own flavor. The audience itself is a base dish, like a rice pilaf or something. And then together it's 'Oh shit, that's an actual meal.' And that's what every day is like at one of these shows. Something is one thing in the morning, and then by the end of the day it's a totally different thing. It's all process."

California's Intercity Passenger Rail Program - Regional Rail Ambitions and Current State

This brochure provides a convenient look at some significant US passenger rail service BEYOND the Northeast Corridor.

https://www.acerail.com/About/Regional-Governance-for-San-Joaquin-Rail-Service/CA-IPR-Brochure-April-2015.pdf

It is Somehow Appropriate that I am Linking to this Post

http://warontherocks.com/2015/08/harnessing-social-media-for-military-power/

A Geopolitical Marketplace?

I have no idea how this works or where exactly the idea takes us, but neither does the author. It opens up an interesting line of thinking though, and does reinforce the point that not all parties to a transaction, negotiation, etc (at anywhere from the interpersonal to the international level) have the same interests nor priorities. Always an important point, yet often forgotten.

https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/moving-toward-geopolitical-marketplace

Wait, it wasn't all roses and sunshine?

A reality check on the Cold War era

http://warontherocks.com/2015/08/twilight-struggle-the-cold-war-was-not-stable-or-simple/

The U.S. Coast Guard Just Offloaded Over $1 Billion of Cocaine Seized in Pacific Ocean - gCaptain

http://gcaptain.com/u-s-coast-guard-record-119000-pounds-of-cocaine-seized-in-last-10-months-alone/

Is ‘Do What You Love’ Actually a Good Message (from the employee's perspective)?

An Art Historian analyzes contemporary marketing mythology...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/do-what-you-love-work-myth-culture/399599/

How China Learned to use Their Coast Guard as an Instrument of National Power

https://www.cna.org/cna_files/pdf/Creation-China-Coast-Guard.pdf

Urban Innovation Labs

https://nextcity.org/features/view/urban-design-lab-mexico-city-civic-engagement-innovation

An Interesting Series

http://www.wandakoop.com/studio/seeway.htm

h/t LD