Morning Belz, Dec. 14

Protect your iPad, from your kid.

Report: U.S. Treasury hacked by foreign government — NYT
Wisconsin election case: there’s no there, there — National Review
How COVID overtook a Minnesota nursing home — Star Tribune
6-yr-old spent $16,000 on iPad in-game purchases — Apple Insider
Dave Grohl cover Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” — Foo Fighters
A polite request for the FDA — Alex Tabarrok
How fact met fiction for John Le Carré, dead at 89 — BBC
To understand Britain, read its spy novels — Economist

Soon
- Audibled this weekend and went to Waffle House to interview people about the vaccine yesterday. Video coming soon. 

Quote
Vizini: “Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?”
Westley: “Yes.”
Vizini: “Morons!”
— “The Princess Bride,” 1987

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