June 10, 2015

• US to send 400 military trainers to Iraq to battle IS, and hopefully stay out of combat.
• Cushy capitalist gigs await ex-Obama staffers on other side of revolving door.
• McKinney cop who pulled gun on teens resigns after investigation finds his actions were "out of control."
• Albert Woodfox could be released at a watershed moment for the movement against solitary confinement.
• Over the past 60 years a blood donor with a rare blood type has saved two million babies.
• Study finds 49 for-profit hospitals charge uninsured patients more than 10 times the cost of care.
• The for-profit college catastrophe is awfully similar to the mortgage crisis.
• Federal court upholds Texas restrictions on abortion access not seen "since before Roe v. Wade."
• The group behind processed-food flavoring operates outside the FDA's scope.
• FIFA's $30 million movie starring Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter grossed $900 its first weekend.
• In Apple vs. Spotify, musicians still lose—the only way to win is live music.
• Britain's playgrounds are dotted with leftovers from the Brutalist wave of architecture.
• Giants rookie Chris Heston pitches no-hitter in his 13th career start.
• Baseball's hidden-ball trick is as old as the game, and as rare as a no-hitter.
• "The redefining of 'funny' for each generation is a constant of our humor. And it’s not censorship."
• Our next poet laureate is Juan Felipe Herrera.
• One hundred years after "Prufrock," remember it was Pound who got it published at all.
• "At the rager the chicks come and go / Talking about art or something, I don’t know."
• Against enforced literary humility: Fiction loses its vitality when prose grows modest.