Roundup of Google news

Some insightful articles on the debacle at Google: The mistakes of walking away from the difference between men and women, and the damage done by Google to their employees.

And here's an insightful article from a woman who decided she doesn't belong in the tech world.

Tom Freidman, Nobel Prize winning economist who doesn't understand economics, and NY Times columnist is generally wrong about everything. A surprising thing happened! He was right four times in one day:

We can’t take in every immigrant who wants to come here; we need, metaphorically speaking, a high wall that assures Americans we can control our border with a big gate that lets as many people in legally as we can effectively absorb as citizens.

The Muslim world does have a problem with pluralism – gender pluralism, religious pluralism and intellectual pluralism – and suggesting that terrorism has nothing to do with that fact is naïve; countering violent extremism means constructively engaging with Muslim leaders on this issue.

Americans want a president focused on growing the economic pie, not just redistributing it. We do have a trade problem with China, which has reformed and closed instead of reformed and opened. We have an even bigger problem with automation wiping out middle-skilled work and we need to generate more blue-collar jobs to anchor communities.

Political correctness on college campuses has run ridiculously riot. Americans want leaders to be comfortable expressing patriotism and love of country when globalization is erasing national identities. America is not perfect, but it is, more often than not, a force for good in the world.

Of course true to form, the article is critical of Trump.

A Virginia high school sent a letter to parents and students announcing they would be selecting students for Advanced Placement and honors classes at least partly based on skin color. The school board denies what is plainly in the letter.

Remember the Women's March? The behavior of the group is losing support, even by the NY Times.

There's an old joke about the pronunciation of almonds--that on the tree it is pronounced "almonds" and after they are harested, it's pronounced "a'monds". When they are harvested, a machine shakes the "L" out of them.  Here's a fun video of an almond harvester. There's a follow up about how you pronounce salmon with the "L" silent.