August 24, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Russia blocks all of Wikipedia over a page that explains how to make hashish.
- Literary magazines for socialists funded by the CIA, ranked.
- Twitter kills Politwoops, which monitored worldwide politicians' deleted tweets.
- "Racism won't really get addressed in this country 'til people stop looking for racists under white sheets and start looking in their own mirrors."
- The WHO estimates 20% of Syrians suffer mental health disorders—overseas psychiatrists are trying to help.
- Paris train attacker claims he found the weapons and planned to jump out a train window after robbing passengers.
- Europe officials face too many militant suspects and potential targets to mount effective surveillance.
- Boston police arrested two Pokemon masters who arrived at the world championships with a weapons cache.
- Biden pokes into his 2016 chances, meets with key Dems Elizabeth Warren and Jerry Brown to sound his case.
- Though some would prefer Warren run, Biden's entry and her support would upend Clinton's assumed Dem dominance.
- White House insiders say if their minds are with Hillary, their hearts are with Joe.
- Clinton's unscripted Black Lives Matter moment.
- Yale pays more to financial managers than to students—a sad symptom of higher education's collective addiction to hedge funds.
- "In many parts of the US, pedestrianism is seen as a dubiously counter-culture activity."
- Corrosion quietly rules the world.
- While the world mourns Palmyra and other UNESCO Heritage Sites, ISIS takes real, living lives.
- "The first tool to demoralize a people was the destruction of their language."
- The media hailed one woman's recuperation after Katrina, but she's "scarred by what happened after the cameras went away."
- Baylor accepted football star's transfer despite his record of assaulting women—and hushed it up when the crimes continued.
- Sexual abuser escaped crimes at apartheid South African asylums to continue his offenses in Alberta for years—as a licensed psychiatrist.
- The disturbing double standard on female pedophiles, whose acts are treated as titillation, not abuse.
- Four stories of disaster politics in South and Southeast Asia.
- Jell-O salad was posh stuff in the American colonies. Now it's out to pasture in bad-food Tumblrs.
