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I guess Snapchat is the exception but I'm old and don't understand it, but every other social media company seems obsessed with the idea that what people really want is the Best Stuff from 3 days ago. There is no best stuff, and 3 days ago isn't interesting.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's first public appearance as Donald Trump's running mate will apparently come in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. Hannity is a "Republican shill" and a pro-Trump advocate with the tendency to be a "very soft interviewer" when interviewing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and other GOP politicians.
It's ironic that the country most vocal in calling on China to abide by the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the case brought by the Philippines under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea itself refuses to sign on to the convention. Adding to the irony is the fact that the court's ruling, met by our China-bashers with unconcealed glee, makes it even more unlikely that we will ratify the convention.
A semi-truck reported to be full of explosives plowed through a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, killing at least 73 people and leaving many others injured. There is video online of the attack, but due to the extremely graphic nature of it, we will not be including it in this post.
Retired LAPD dectective Mark Fuhrman's racism was a big problem for the prosecution in the OJ Simpson trial. But it certainly isn't problematic for Megyn Kelly who, after the latest police shootings, trotted out Fuhrman for more of his patented race baiting reaction and Fox validation.
Despite being a supporter of Donald Trump who has introduced him at several rallies, former partial term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not included in the list of speakers the Trump campaign has released for the Republican convention. Trump said it's because Alaska is far away from Cleveland.
Protesters link arms as they block an intersection in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta during a march against the recent police shootings of African Americans on Monday, July 11, 2016. After last week's absolute horror of two black men being shot by police in separate incidents, the aftermath of both recorded in all-too-real and all-too-graphic cell phone videos, what more is there to say? Alton Sterling , 37, died in the early morning hours of July 5 after police shot and killed him outside a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, convenience store.
I will be in Portland late next week and at Anna in PDX's suggestion, we are going to do an LGM meetup. It will take place Thursday, July 21. There will be two possibilities for you Portland hipsters.
The country that lived through Margaret Thatcher's premiership should know better than to believe a female leader will protect women's rights purely on the basis of her gender. The rise of women to positions of high office certainly represents progress of a sort.
The idea that companies can't control their supply chains is ridiculous. They don't control the labor and environmental conditions in them because they don't want to and because they don't care.
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I met Kevin Williamson years ago and he told me that he got the idea to write the opening scene of "Scream" when he was house sitting one night, the weather was bad and somebody started calling on the phone and hanging up. Years before that incident in 1979, the great Carol Kane played a babysitter that was being harassed on the telephone by a stranger and the beginning of the film produced one of the scariest twists ever to populate a scary movie.
After the take-down of Hillary Clinton by FBI Director James Comey after announcing that career investigators at the FBI found no credible evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton, Matt Miller of the Washington Post wrote, "When FBI Director James B. Comey stepped to the lectern to deliver his remarks about Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, he violated time-honored Justice Department practices for how such matters are to be handled, set a dangerous precedent for future investigations and committed a gross abuse of his own power.
Britain will have a female prime minister by the autumn, after Conservative MPs chose two women -- Theresa May, the home secretary, and Andrea Leadsom, the pro-Brexit junior energy minister -- to put forward to party activists in the contest to replace David Cameron. Leadsom, who was considered a rank outsider when the contest began, beat the justice secretary, Michael Gove, in the latest vote of MPs.
States that legalized medical marijuana -- which is sometimes recommended for symptoms like chronic pain, anxiety or depression -- saw declines in the number of Medicare prescriptions for drugs used to treat those conditions and a dip in spending by Medicare Part D, which covers the cost on prescription medications, according to new research. Because the prescriptions for drugs like opioid painkillers and antidepressants and associated Medicare spending on those drugs fell in states where marijuana could feasibly be used as a replacement, researchers said it appears likely legalization led to a drop in prescriptions.
Vladimir Putin recently manned up and admitted it. The United States remains the planet's sole superpower, as it has been since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Politico reported that Fox employees "were aware of some of the things" that former Fox host Gretchen Carlson alleged in her lawsuit against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and that staff of the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends "knew about or saw" host Steve Doocy make inappropriate comments. Carlson's lawsuit alleges that Ailes "terminat[ed] her employment," because she would not have a "sexual relationship with him," and accuses host Steve Doocy of "creat[ing] a hostile work environment by regularly treating her in a sexist and condescending way."
After Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit claiming Fox News CEO Roger Ailes "retaliated against Carlson" because she would not have "a sexual relationship with him," and that her former Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy regularly treated her "in a sexist and condescending way," Bloomberg Politics produced a supercut of sexist things said to Carlson on Fox & Friends : We've changed our commenting system to Disqus. Instructions for signing up and claiming your comment history are located here .
Worth looking at a couple of other treatments of the Chilcot report; Zack Beauchamp at Vox , and Tom Switzer at Lowy . And here's the punchline; especially in the wake of Brexit, but really even before, the United States government has come to view France as a much more important security partner than the United Kingdom.