“Take care when typing a domain name into a browser address bar, because it’s far too easy to fat-finger a key and wind up somewhere you don’t want to go.”
A citizens’ guide to deciphering lobbyist-speak.
I support this effort to make investigative data from old civil rights cold cases public.
How Chinese feminists found a way around government censorship of #MeToo.
Jim Carrey’s Trump art is…wow. Just wow.
“At present, Donald Trump is an autocrat without an autocracy. The system mostly resists his demands because it’s not designed to operate that way and we have centuries worth of norms that are remarkably resilient. But systems change. And it’s clear that ours is already starting to change under his malign influence.”
RIP, Steven Bochco, creator of such iconic TV shows as Hill Street Blues, LA Law, and NYPD Blue.
“But it isn’t okay, Stephanie says later. None of them have been okay since Oct. 1, when the family was caught in the crosshairs of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Rosemarie, 54, has been hospitalized for all but two days since — her excruciating recovery a testament to the all-consuming devastation a single high-velocity bullet can cause. As Rosemarie recovers from multiple surgeries to repair the wounds to her lungs, liver and spleen and awaits a final procedure to treat her damaged stomach, the family has watched in horror as other defenseless people have endured mass shootings. Again and again — at a Texas church, in a small California town, at a Florida high school — the same type of gun, the same type of bullets. Dozens have died, and many others have been left like Rosemarie.”
“But the reality of autism is very different from depictions on TV and film, where autistic people are almost always portrayed as awkward white male geniuses.”
Three words: Emergency backup goalie. I love this story.
RIP, Joe Watts, father of Houston gay theater.
“When you have large groups of embittered people – even more so when they are creative people or crazies who spend countless hours producing videos for Youtube – one of them is going to connect that bitterness to their own unhingedness and do something terrible. That’s what seems to have happened here.”
“Congress, Not Amazon, Messed Up the Post Office”.
RIP, Daniel Akaka, former Senator from Hawaii.