Screen shot:  Trollet på Hunderfossen; The Hunderfossen troll, by Vesna Middelkoop
For a terrific image, look at  http://dailyoftheday.com/justice-of-the-day-patent-trolls/
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Institution; in re: H1B visas. Imagine that we simply auction them off for the highest amount; if anyone says, “Doctors are more valuable than merchants,” each side knows how to tell a sob story defending its position.
Need to get someone to say that they're totally necessary for the survival of he US. No one has the requirements filling the statute, but an immigration lawyer will enumerate the novel and path-breaking achievements of the applicant. Extravagant overclaiming.   . . .  (1 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 1, Block B: Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Institution; in re: H1B visas. (2 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 1, Block C:  The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay,  by Jess Bravin; in re: the Hamden case.  . . . Common Article III (1 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 1, Block D:  The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, in re: the Hamden case.  . . . Modified Military Commission  . . . “material support for terrorism” is not a criminal act under the laws of war. (2 of 2)
 
Hour Two
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 2, Block A: Power and Constraint Accountable Presidency after 9/11, by Jack Goldsmith; in re:  James Madison: to be sure the presidency doesn’t grow too powerful if the president acts lawlessly.   Synopticon.  . . . Presidents Bush and Obama.
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 2, Block B: Power and Constraint Accountable Presidency after 9/11, by Jack Goldsmith; in re: Countervailing powers within the US governmental structure.
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 2, Block C: The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy, by George Gilder and Joe Lieberman, in re:  Whither Jews go, prosperity tends to accrue.  . . . Note that the Arab Palestinian population of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank is larger now than it ever has been before in history. 
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 2, Block D:  The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State Is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy, by George Gilder and Joe Lieberman, in re:  . . . vast amounts of aid pour into Gaza, which is an economic catastrophe, while Israel has become a brilliant economic beacon.  Some people are inspired by success; others envy and resent it. Overseas Chinese have suffered pogroms almost as awful as have Jews because of their success, notably in Southeast Asia (Indonesia).  The focus on money is a distortion: it identified Jewish success as limited to that, whereas it's creativity that distinguished Jews over the Twentieth Century (much less formerly).   . . .  [Europe] blames Jews’s success for their own failures.  Historically, Jews were banned from the main economy and were in effect forced into the life of the mind. Now that the global economy is strongly intellectual, Jews are well-positioned to contribute [mightily].
 
Hour Three
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 3, Block A: Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels, by Ken W Sayers.  On Dec 7, 1941, at 6:30 AM Hawaii time, a Japanese periscope was seen in the bay. The Antares, an auxiliary vessel, was the first one to see it, and sank the sub.   . . . (1 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 3, Block B: Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels, by Ken W Sayers (2 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 3, Block C: Knights of the Sea: THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOXER AND THE ENTERPRISE AND THE WAR OF 1812, by David Hanna  (1 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 3, Block D: Knights of the Sea: THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOXER AND THE ENTERPRISE AND THE WAR OF 1812, by David Hanna  (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 4, Block A: Michael Balter, Science magazine, in re: The evolutionary story of hominids. Primates split into apes, including us, and Old World beings, incl monkeys. DNA says the spilt took place 25 to 30 million years ago; but paleontologist long couldn’t find beings that old.  Rukwa research brings us more into the ball park.
Human language may have evolved to help our ancestors make tools  . . . Now, a team led by Thomas Morgan, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has attacked the problem in a very different way. Rather than considering toolmaking as a proxy for language ability, he and his colleagues explored the way that language may help modern humans learn to make such tools.   . . .  http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/01/human-language-may-have-evolved-help-our-ancestors-make-tools  (1 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 4, Block B: Michael Balter, Science magazine, in re: The evolutionary story of hominids.   . . .  Neanderthals:  Did they breast-feed?  Teeth and barium: before infants start breast-feeding, they have vey little barium; it fills tiny spaces within the teeth.  . . .  The molar of a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal from Belgium was breast-fed for seven months . . . (2 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 4, Block C: Richard Epstein, Chicago Law and New York Law;  also Hoover Defining Ideas, in re:  Patent trolls, and patent courts and genes. A patent troll lies in wait for somebody else to use something then files a spurious claim so he either pays a fortune to use the idea or pays a fortune to fight his way through court. Spurious claims.  (1 of 2)
Friday  20 April 2018 / Hour 4, Block D:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law and New York Law;  also Hoover Defining Ideas, in re:  Patent trolls (2 of 2)
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