In Opinions
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Landlord Racks Up Fines, Files Lawsuit
A landlord amassing thousands of dollars in blight fines on a deteriorating building he owns in Westville is suing the city for harassment over another property he owns at the edge of Wooster Square. The city’s suing him back.
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Why the GOP's narrow special election win in Arizona should have them totally panicked for November
On Tuesday night, Republican Debbie Lesko defeated Democrat Hiral Tipirneni in the special election for former Rep. Trent Franks' vacant House seat, but pretty much no one thinks that the outcome represents good news for the GOP. Prior to the election, the universal narrative across the spectrum had rightly concluded that a narrow Lesko win would still mean that Republicans were in heaps of trouble heading into the November midterms, and indeed, her 52.6-to-47.4 escape offered no solace to her...
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How Far Down The Big Data/'Psychographic Micro-Targeting' Rabbit Hole Do You Want To Go?
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Anyone claiming they are impervious to this sort of analysis and delivery of "content" is deluding themselves.
Maybe you've seen a notice like this when you log into your Facebook account: did you read it carefully? Please read the one I received:
Protecting Your Information
We understand the importance of keeping your data safe, because we sell it for billions of dollars to anyone with cash. We are making it easier for you to believe that...
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Facebook Removes Anonymous UChicago Page; New One Pops Up
A page for University of Chicago students to anonymously share confessions, questions, and rants was shut down by Facebook after a post included a meme making fun of French people.
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Baseball's greatest play, 42 years later: Rick Monday stops flag-burners at Dodgers Stadium
Rick Monday is a retired baseball player, more specifically a left fielder who batted left and threw left, who was voted an All Star twice, and who played in two World Series Championships during his 19 seasons. But the best play Monday ever made, the one he is famous for, happened during warm ups between the fourth and the fifth inning.
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From Second Chance To No Chance Connecticut?
Daee Muhammad McKnight found his second chance while serving 17 years of a 25-year sentence for murder. Through his Islamic faith and volunteer programs in the prison, he transformed his life.
He wants other formerly incarcerated people to have the same chances — and he worries the state’s ongoing budget woes threaten those possibilities.
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Boeing Bounce Saves Stocks But Bond Bloodbath Continues
No macro data today for US but earnings "beats" were met with "sell the news" but dip-buyers stepped in to save the day...
Futures show the chaotic trading around the pre-open to EU close... and then the standard buying panic into the close...
Cash indices all scrambled desperately in the last hour to get green (Trannies were green all day)...Nasdaq and Small Caps ended the day red...
Boeing's post-conference-call bounce rescued The Dow from its longest losing streak since August...
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Most Supreme Court observers, but not all, think justices will back Trump's Muslim ban 3.0
It was a "hot bench," as they say, on Wednesday when government lawyers defended Donald Trump's authority to issue a ban on travelers from five predominately Muslim countries in Trump v. Hawaii. But most court observers walked away with the sense that a majority of the justices will side with the government.
Though lower courts have struck down several iterations of Trump's Muslim ban, "by the end of the argument," wrote the New York Times, "it was hard to identify five justices ready to vote...
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Tennessee Decides It's Not Actually Dangerous for a Cosmetologist to Do House Calls
Lawmakers in Tennessee passed a bill this week that would permit licensed cosmetologists to practice outside of salons, opening the door for on-demand services that connect makeup artists and hair stylists with clients who want service in their own homes.
This is common sense. Someone licensed by the state as a cosmetologist doesn't suddenly lose that knowledge and training—a lot of training, since becoming a cosmetologist in Tennessee requires 2,000 hours of classes—the moment he or she steps...
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Kanye Fires Manager, Tweets His Way Through "Meltdown" Accusations And MSM Lies
Ever since rapper Kanye West praised a conservative black woman and reaffirmed his support for Donald Trump to his nearly 28 million Twitter followers, the knives have been out for the beleaguered impresario - as his mostly liberal, mostly millennial base struggles to reconcile one of their favorite safe space poets supporting a president they've been programmed to hate. His subreddit, for example, is a trainwreck of fans not knowing which emotion to register.
Less than a week after West's...
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When it comes to sexual misconduct, Hillary Clinton takes whatever side benefits her the most
When it’s the choice between standing with victims of sexual misconduct and siding with the powerful men who allegedly abused them, Hillary Clinton normally chooses the latter.
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Whoopi Goldberg Angrily Reads Note Card Trashing Trump's Cabinet
On Wednesday’s edition of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg was reading a rant off an index card. (This happens a lot on The View, so you can wonder who’s actually writing these lines. They often sound like a DNC Info-Pak.) Whoopi was outraged about the lack of experience in the Cabinet. No one on the set asked how she is qualified to be a pundit because she co-starred in Ghost and Sister Act. She's a high-school dropout.