August 9, 2016

Senator Collins of Maine says she won’t vote for Trump over “his constant stream of cruel comments.”

Fifty former national security officials say Trump would be “the most reckless President in American history.”

We think the world is getting better. Nine beliefs of the neo-liberal.

How Paul Krugman made Trump possible: by wasting purple prose for years on mainstream Republicans.

Fox News executives reportedly ignored harassment complaints brought directly to them.

Suicide bombing at Pakistan hospital kills dozens of human rights advocates.

Chinese tourist spends two weeks in German migrant hostel after mistakenly applying for asylum when he only wanted to report a stolen wallet.

In previous Olympics news, let’s relive Mary Carillo’s amazing badminton rant.

How the media is covering the Hungarian swimmer rumored, never alleged, to be doping under the abusive influence of her husband-coach.

“Lilly King’s improbable journey to the finger-wagging frontline of swimming’s Cold War.”

Why it’s hard to regulate payday loans: short-term lenders adapt too quickly.

Hackers shift their attention from retail to healthcare.

Apple applies to receive utility license to sell excess solar power.

Xavier University in Cincinnati installs North America’s first pizza ATM.

Industrial “avocado time machine” will keep guacamole green for up to 10 days.

Cage-free eggs were a big victory for animal rights groups, but only a marginal improvement for hens.

Study finds that if you appreciate trashy films, “you have varied and refined tastes and are of above-average education.”

Now that I’m no longer obsessed with getting fucked up enough to die, the question of finishing school has resurfaced.

Objectively, intellectuals aren’t like everyone else, but that doesn’t invalidate their ideas. #opinions

Informed by his own experiences, professor argues Nabokov had a peculiarly hallucinogenic form of epilepsy.

Eight examples of the new sound of the guitar in 2016.

Close reading of the expectations already foisted upon Frank Ocean’s follow-up.

Korea’s most epic tale of royal linguistic heroism.

by via The Morning News