Hasnain says:

I might need to get the book after this.

"He ­reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor: “If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor.” Then he imposed a set of new rules: Nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade.) Also, he would let housekeeping know when he wanted his sheets done, and he would strip his own bed."

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"But the myth of instantaneous and inevitable death won out. That was the story NASA wanted told, the story it was safe to tell the schoolchildren who’d watched it happen. The Tropic investigation is nowhere to be found in the Miami Herald’s anniversary coverage, nor does the paper appear to have put a version online at all."

Hasnain says:

Very technically interesting

Hasnain says:

This was a great read. I learnt about history, politics, sociology, economics, and about the Subway in one go.

Long but worth it

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"For Reissfelder, who has spent more than $1 million funding his private investigation, going after Gaglio is no longer just about the money. “At some point, you have to sit down and think: What is the cost-benefit analysis here?” he says. The smile on his face gives way to a look of determination. “If there are no consequences, then the world is seriously broken.”"

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This article was very depressing and made me lose some faith in humanity.

I didn't know whether to share the quote about how one of the folks managed to get a courtroom shutdown, but this took precedence:

"Parks and other private guardians appeared to gravitate toward patients who had considerable assets. O’Malley described a 2010 case in which Parks, after receiving a tip from a social worker, began “cold-calling” rehabilitation centers, searching for a seventy-nine-year-old woman, Patricia Smoak, who had nearly seven hundred thousand dollars and no children. Parks finally found her, but Smoak’s physician wouldn’t sign a certificate of incapacity. “The doctor is not playing ball,” Parks wrote to her lawyer. She quickly found a different doctor to sign the certificate, and Norheim approved the guardianship. (Both Parks and Norheim declined to speak with me.)"