Wednesday assorted links

1. Do you wish to keep Freddie “…cranky and independent for a little while longer”?

2. Curb Your Enthusiasm is returning to HBO.

3. “This history indicates that Congress has already made an exception for itself by not adopting the 2004 overtime-pay rule update. That inaction raises the question of what Congress will do if the board recommends that both chambers adopt rules conforming to the DOL’s recent overtime-pay rule.”  Link here.

4. ““The truest Sichuanese food has only about a century or so of history behind it…” — is Sichuan food in decline? (NYT)  And how Beijing is turning Koreans into Chinese.

5. David Henderson on what to do about London housing.

6. How European women shifted away from the right and toward the left.