October 30, 2014
By The Morning News
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- In the past five years, since the financial crisis, the world's number of billionaires has more than doubled.
- Goldberg: Netanyahu's "chickenshit" behavior undermines US-Israel alignment at the highest levels.
- Until mid-century, hundreds of thousands of Swiss kids were taken from home and forced to work on farms; now they want compensation.
- Unrelated: Pictures of sushi in space.
- Serpico: Cops are still out of control, only now it's violence, not graft, that thrives without accountability.
- Interstate Crosscheck program suspects millions of voters of fraud; unfortunately, the program is crude, faulty, and smacks of Jim Crow.
- Reporter reviews over 200 editorial pages to find a country divided on who should vote, no matter what the Constitution says.
- Fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty.
- San Francisco Giants win the World Series with Bumgarner's "impossible" pitching performance.
- Your Thursday linguist joke.
- "We the Economy" features famous actors and directors explaining basic economic concepts.
- "Scabby the Rat"—inflatable, 25-foot rodent used in labor protests—now protected under the First Amendment.
- Cyberstalking now a standard part of domestic abuse in the US; 85% of shelters report victims being tracked by their abusers using GPS.
- Sixty percent of tech experts predict a major loss of life or tens of billions in property damage from cybercrime by 2025.
- Headline of the day: "If You Don't Get A Flu Shot, You're Stupid. And A Dick."
- See also: We’re pooping all wrong, and the toilets are to blame.
- Halloween poem in the style of Hillaire Belloc.
- Critic Alex Ross's nightafternight playlist for Halloween.
- Related: Exploring the Frankenstein Family Crypt in 1952, and other ghost stories from Love + Radio.
