October 7, 2015
By The Morning News
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- NATO doesn't buy Russia's apology for violating Turkish airspace.
- "The release will be one of the largest discharges of inmates from federal prisons in American history."
- When inmates blow the whistle on abuse in solitary confinement, they are tortured by guards.
- In Kentucky, when jail guards kill inmates, nothing happens.
- Barrett Brown on the new Franzen, from prison.
- To succeed, the gun-control movement must co-opt the anti-abortion movement's extremism.
- When the CIA deployed to Vietnam and Cambodia, it recruited field agents with items out of a Sears catalog.
- In Boulder, NIMBYism is taken to the extreme, which will likely create an untenable housing crisis.
- An exercise in why robots should not dictate what news organizations cover.
- Upvoted, Reddit's attempt to repackage viral posts for the larger social web, is far too little, too late.
- An interview with Syd the Kid.
- An oral history of Gucci Mane.
- A gynecologist fact-checks Lil Wayne.
- "If you took his word for it, trees would be a collection of disgusting, green squiggly lines...Renoir just sucks at painting."
- Thanksgiving is on its way, and America is in the midst of a canned pumpkin shortage.
- We don't know why there's so much lobster now—it might be climate change, ethical fishing, or something else.
- When David Carr taught his master class in journalism, they skipped "Consider the Lobster"—no one complained.
- Why there are no horror TV shows.
