drones – Chris Barsanti

Miley to Elvis: Is it even possible to steal culture, and if so, is it a problem?
Reasons we might be doomed, #514.
Facebook pays cop’s salary.
By 2030, New York won’t even be among the world’s 10 biggest cities.
Maybe Hamas should have been taking lessons from the Kurds.
This Congressman thinks undocumented immigrants from Central America could carry Ebola.
Archie takes a bullet (literally) for gay rights and gun control.
NPR decides it doesn’t really want their ombudsman being … an ombudsman.
Spoils of war: ISIS now has not only hundreds of American Humvees but dozens of American 155mm artillery pieces with GPS aiming.
“[Eric Cantor]’s got a lot of private-sector friends he has done favors for … it would be easy for him to become Eric Cantor Inc. and make a few million dollars a year.”
Weaponized drones: Pretty soon, everybody will have them.
“Thank heavens, then, for Germany, as nobody has said very often;” Nick Hornby on the World Cup.
Men explaining things to women.
Nixon on the whole gay thing: “I am the most tolerant person on that of anybody in this shop.”
Print and read: The Christian Right gets ready for war.

Chris Barsanti