January 7, 2015
By The Morning News
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- NYPD echoes 1981 Milwaukee, where police walked out after a black alderman gave voice to minorities' fear of police.
- Whites controlled black employment in Tchula, Miss., for as long as they could, then left and took all the jobs with them.
- Like pretty much all the shortcut solutions Silicon Valley offers, basic income isn't enough to solve our real problems.
- Obama signals intent to veto upcoming Keystone bill, should it pass Congress.
- Environmentalists kill Keystone by arguing it could pipe in terrorists at very high speeds—and other 2015 predictions.
- Tech companies are preparing for the June 30 leap second.
- Former CBS reporter sues USPS and DOJ for hacking into her computers.
- Disney's continued portrayals of sex dimorphism—huge men and tiny women—are a subtle sell for gender inequality.
- As marriage rates fall, public declarations of marriage seem more prevalent than ever.
- Sam Adams and Paul Revere left us a time capsule with coins and 1795-era newspapers.
- Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell sentenced to two years on corruption charges.
- In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses.
- Left unchecked, suburbs of a certain age fall into disrepair at the same time—watch for McMansion ruin porn in your lifetime.
- Astronomers discover eight potentially habitable planets, far enough from their suns that liquid water could exist.
- Scott Wescott says God told him to walk across America; he considered bringing a dog on the trip, but decided on a goat.
- The best rapper alive, every year from 1979 to 2014.
