February 19, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Ankara was bombed Thursday; Turkey blames Kurdish groups allied with United States against ISIS.
- Myth of the “black vote” breaks down in Harlem, where some think Clinton will do more for blacks than Obama.
- Clinton built a primary "firewall" in Nevada then left it alone, and now Sanders has more offices and ads.
- Speechwriter crafts "a totally pandering stump speech" for a candidate who espouses only positions that please Democrats.
- Gigantic chart tries to predict the states Sanders needs to win to capture the nomination.
- Socialism means giving up private property, but not personal property.
- If Trump wins in South Carolina, he'll need to be covered as the overwhelming Republican favorite.
- Trump previewed his xenophobia when he called for the (proven innocent) Central Park Five to be executed.
- Warren Ellis: It feels like the news out of the US is being generated by a computer that ate books by me.
- New Yorker copy editor marks up a Donald Trump speech.
- Survey finds British designers higher educated, lower paid, and less satisfied than American peers.
- Sports journalists competing for scoops flaunt industry guidelines for quoting anonymous sources.
- Before cable, political parties were beholden to centrism; now they are host bodies for social media hive minds.
- After a lifetime of mental illness, woman explains why she chose electroconvulsive therapy.
- Brief history of "anti-languages," from Elizabethan ruffians to Polari.
- David Bowie's recent "Girl Loves Me" is a mixture of Polari and A Clockwork Orange's Nadsat.
- Bestselling author confesses to an addiction to cursing.
- Alain de Botton considers marrying wisely a matter of public safety, like wearing a seatbelt.
- Just because motherhood was for so long a constraint on women doesn’t mean we can't also find it deeply meaningful and fulfilling.
- Visual history of women's tennis.
- By now it's pretty clear that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis were hot for each other.
- As a market, adult incontinence has gotten too big and lucrative to remain in the shadows.
