December 2, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Much of the $260M in nonlethal military gear—e.g., Humvees—the US supplied to Eastern Ukraine rebels is falling apart.
- Profile of ex-Chicago PD superintendent from summer 2012, as the city's murder rates were rising quickly.
- Kern County, Calif., is home to America's deadliest police force per capita.
- In 2015, about one person per week has died after incidents in which they've been Tasered by police.
- That "Taser" was named after a racist book doesn't make it racist—that's a job for the police.
- Harvard House Masters want to change their title, since it sounds pretty racist.
- Republican officials worry Trump's ascension could equal yuuuge GOP losses in November.
- The CEO who raised employees' base pay to $70K may have done so because he was caught overcompensating himself.
- Digital hoarding is a real, understudied problem that's exacerbated by the difficulty, on some platforms, of deleting data.
- For-profit genealogy and home health companies have a poor history of protecting user data, and the government can't help.
- The LA Times has a Star Wars style guide.
- When a Darth Vader impersonator made a seven-year-old cry. On purpose.
- Julianne Moore steals Times Square impersonators' thunder, delivering live performances of her roles.
- The title of a Purple Rain remake in Tamajeq, which has no word for "purple": Rain the Color of Blue With a Little Red in It.
- Today's video: Time-lapse tessellations of cities in motion.
