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• Donald Trump blasts “dope” Mitt Romney in Twitter tirade over tax returns

  25-02-2016 23:00 via salon.com
  
  Hell hath no fury like a Trump scorned.The latest victim of Donald Trump's wrath is 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. On Fox News Channel on Wednesday, Romney raised an issue with which he is well-acquainted, calling on Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio to release their back taxes. Though Romney gave lip service to the other Republican candidates, it became clear that Trump was the intended target of Romney's remarks:"We have good reason to believe there's a b
  
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• The “Brian Sandoval for SCOTUS” experiment was everything wrong with Democratic politics

  25-02-2016 22:00 via salon.com
  
  President Obama reported consideration of Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, as a possible Supreme Court nominee has come to an end: Sandoval doesn’t want the job. But, even after it's been popped, the Sandoval trial balloon merits an autopsy: It was a horrible idea and should not be repeated in any form.(Some analysts saw this as a never-in-reality-serious proposal that was simply intended to troll Republicans. Obama's track record of self-sabotaging "compromise" makes me doubt tha
  
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• America has a white guy problem: From Donald Trump to #OscarsSoWhite, our “diversity problems” are all connected

  25-02-2016 21:33 via salon.com
  
  “If Hollywood is the standard-bearer for opportunity,” wrote Stereo Williams for the Daily Beast, then we should all be concerned about the state of the film industry, where “there is both a casual ambivalence and quiet hostility towards broadening the range of opportunities for non-white stars to truly thrive in the mainstream.”We should be concerned, but not because of Hollywood. The monocultural mindset isn’t restricted to the entertainment industry, but ext
  
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• It’s why UR still single: Millennials aren’t impressed by suitors with bad grammar and spelling

  25-02-2016 21:15 via salon.com
  
  Dating in the digital age has become increasingly complicated thanks to the amount of information and technology available at our fingertips. With the click of a link and tap of an iPhone, we’re able to explore and analyze a potential lover by their profile picture, Twitter profiles and social media posts. While a good profile picture enhances how a person is perceived by prospects, how they communicate digitally is just as indicative when it comes to attractiveness.A recent survey conduct
  
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• Facebook’s tolerance deficiency: Mark Zuckerberg has to tell employees to stop crossing out “Black Lives Matter” on its signature wall

  25-02-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  It's hard to imagine that a company that consistently ranks among the best places to work can also have a culture problem so rampant as to merit its billionaire CEO issue a company-wide tolerance lesson.According to Gizmodo, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made clear in an internal memo his disappointment with "several recent instances of people crossing out 'black lives matter' and writing 'all lives matter'" on a signature wall at the company's swankily minimalist&
  
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• 3 bills you should know about: Iowa, Virginia, and South Dakota tackle controversial proposals

  25-02-2016 20:53 via salon.com
  
  Children could be handling guns in Iowa, Virginia parents could be permitted to block sexually explicit reading from their children and South Dakotan transgender students could be restricted from using the gender specific bathroom they want. Watch our video for more.Continue Reading...
  
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• Judd Apatow believes in Andy Dick: The vocal critic of Bill Cosby has nothing but “Love” for his old friend Andy

  25-02-2016 20:50 via salon.com
  
  For over a year now, Judd Apatow has been outspoken in his disgust for alleged serial sex offender Bill Cosby. So why, as Caroline Framke asks this week in Vox, did he cast Andy Dick — an actor with a long line of run-ins with the law for sexual misbehavior — in his new Netflix series "Love?"Apatow's credentials on the subject of Bill Cosby's awfulness are impressive. In December of 2014, he tweeted up a storm on his feelings on the comic, publicly calling out venues that were a
  
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• Illinois Republicans target single mothers and their babies: GOP bill would ban birth certificates, financial aid if father is not named

  25-02-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  
  According to a proposed bill filed last week by two Republican Illinois state lawmakers, if a father is not listed on a newborn's birth certificate, the birth certificate will not be issued and any future financial assistance will be denied.The proposed bill HB6064 by Representative John Cavaletto and Representative Keith Wheeler would amend the Illinois Vital Records Act to require that unwed mothers either name a father on the birth certificate or within 30 days go to court and have anoth
  
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• #WhichHillary? Twitter trend calls out Clinton for hypocrisy on racism, Wall Street and war

  25-02-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams interrupted Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night at a lavish private fundraiser in South Carolina. The young woman accused the presidential candidate of hypocrisy for supporting "tough on crime" laws that led to mass incarceration of black Americans.Williams held up a sign reading "We have to bring them to heel," recalling a line from Clinton's 1994 "super-predator" speech, which has been widely characterized as racist. Secret Service promptly force
  
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• The flailing, incompetent GOP establishment: Reince Priebus’ new plan to control Trump is pathetic

  25-02-2016 19:41 via salon.com
  
  Ultimately, this post is about Reince Priebus, the theatrically incompetent chairman of the Republican National Committee, and his latest attempt to persuade the GOP establishment that he’s not as impotent and helpless as Donald Trump makes him look.But before we get to that, I want to flag this profoundly unsettling article from Sasha Abramsky in the Nation, just so we can keep in mind the character of the political movement that Priebus is trying — and failing — to co-opt. Ab
  
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• Hispanics are still anti-GOP: Poll shows how little progress Republicans have made with Latino voters

  25-02-2016 19:27 via salon.com
  
  The Washington Post and Univision are out with a big new shiny poll of Hispanic voters this morning, and the results do not look particularly encouraging for 2016 Republicans. The headline-grabbing figure from the poll is the widespread animosity within the Latino electorate towards Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Per the Post’s write-up, “8 in 10 Hispanic voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. That includes more than 7 in 10 who have a ‘very unfavorable&rs
  
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• More than half of the Oscars given to black actors were for stereotypical roles

  25-02-2016 18:58 via salon.com
  
  When the first black actress won an Oscar ten years after the ceremony's inception in 1929, she was escorted back to her seat in the segregated hall after leaving the stage.
  And the Academy Awards has made little progress since then. Of the nearly three thousand nominees just 44 are black and of them and only 14 have won.
  Perhaps more alarming, is that fact that 55% of black winners did so playing "common racial stereotypes" such as maids and slaves.
  "We all knew, on the surface, about the numbe
  
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• Meryl Streep defends her “we’re all Africans” blunder: “I was not minimizing difference”

  25-02-2016 18:40 via salon.com
  
  Meryl Streep -- who faced criticism earlier this month for her "we're all Africans, really" comment during a press conference as president of the Berlin Film Festival -- penned an essay for The Huffington Post in an apparent effort to clear up any misconceptions as a result of "distorted reporting."Streep leads with a description of a number of diverse winners from the Festival, which took place this past weekend, including "stories of people from China, Somalia, Mali, Sudan, and Tunisia."S
  
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• Former KKK head David Duke to followers: Voting against Donald Trump is “treason to your heritage”

  25-02-2016 18:40 via salon.com
  
  Falling short of expressly endorsing the Republican frontrunner, conservative talk radio host and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke encouraged his followers to do everything they can to support a Donald Trump presidency, warning that a vote for either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio is "treason to your heritage."Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski bravely listened to the Wednesday edition of the "David Duke Radio Program" and reported that the white nationalist hailed Trump's victories in Nevada
  
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• Ted Cruz is the GOP’s loneliest a-hole: His campaign is sinking because literally nobody likes him

  25-02-2016 18:04 via salon.com
  
  For a guy whose presidency is divinely ordained, Ted Cruz seems rattled.Of all the GOP candidates, he’s the guy you would have least expected to lose his cool. We’ve seen how easy it is to throw Marco Rubio off his game, though presumably his programmers could solve that problem with the right firmware update. Donald Trump has thin skin, though he covers it for his fans by lashing out and throwing around schoolyard insults until they all think he’s the strongest silverback in t
  
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• Ted Cruz is a lying liar: The label’s sticking and finally sinking his campaign

  25-02-2016 17:47 via salon.com
  
  “Consistent. Conservative. Trusted.”That's Ted Cruz's campaign slogan. It suggests, among other things, that Mr. Cruz is honest, a man with a moral compass. Campaign slogans are platitudinousness by definition – everyone gets that. But, generally speaking, they communicate something simple and true about the candidate.In Cruz's case, however, the irony is overwhelming.The Texas senator has developed a reputation in Washington as a grandstanding huckster, someone who reliably pu
  
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• Student banned from St. Louis charter school because he’s black

  25-02-2016 17:45 via salon.com
  
  The echoes of Jim Crow continue today, five decades after it officially ended.Edmund Lee is a third-grader at Gateway Science Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, a charter school he has attended since he was in kindergarten. Yet his family recently learned that he will no longer be able to attend the charter school because he is black.Lee's family is moving to a new suburban school district, where a decades-old state law does not allow black students to attend charter schools in the city."When I rea
  
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• Facebook’s new “like” minefield: You can “wow” a friend’s post now — whatever that means

  25-02-2016 17:31 via salon.com
  
  You might not like what you’re about to read: Facebook has launched a new series of emoji called “Reactions: that are designed to cover a broader range of emotions than the all-acknowledging thumbs-up symbol representing a “like.”Users will now have the option of selecting to “love” a post instead — or select another more specific emotional reaction, ranging from sad or angry to “haha” or “wow.”This new feature marks a step f
  
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• Extreme right-wing talker Michael Savage wants credit for Donald Trump’s rise: I’m “the architect of Trump’s messaging”

  25-02-2016 17:13 via salon.com
  
  Controversial right-wing talk radio host Michael Savage Wednesday took credit for the anti-immigration stances that have made Donald Trump such a successful presidential candidate.Savage, a self-described conservative nationalist, called himself "the architect of Trump's messaging.""For 21 years, my message has been borders, language and culture," Savage explained to listeners of his show, "Savage Nation," on Cumulus Media Networks. "Many of these bullet points have been or a
  
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• Pregnant Chrissy Teigen shuts down haters who don’t understand fertility science: “I also picked the embryo with a taste for bacon”

  25-02-2016 17:11 via salon.com
  
  When you consider that as many as 42 percent of Americans are creationists, that none of the Republican presidential candidates for president accept that climate change is a thing, that there here in the 21st century there are allegedly adult individuals who believe the earth is flat and that vaccines cause autism, you can understand that even the most rudimentary of scientific facts remain elusive to many. So perhaps it wasn't surprising that when model, "Lip Sync Battle" co-host
  
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• Conservative, anti-choice customers force Lands’ End to scrub interview with Gloria Steinem

  25-02-2016 16:50 via salon.com
  
  While most people are not looking for interviews in a Lands' End catalog, the struggling mail-order business attempted to spark up newfound interest in the brand recently with the addition of its "Legend Series,” in which feminist icon Gloria Steinem was interviewed. But after conservative customers complained, threatening to boycott the company, Lands' End was forced to delete the Steinem interview and apologize.“We understand that some of our customers were offended by the inc
  
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• Abortion access Is vanishing: Clinics are closing at a rapid pace and shameless conservative legislators are gunning for what’s left

  25-02-2016 16:49 via salon.com
  
  Next week, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments for Whole Women's Health v Hellerstedt, a case out of Texas that will determine if states will be allowed to enact back-door bans on abortion by passing a bunch of unmeetable and unnecessary regulations that force clinics to shutter.  Even if the court overturns the Texas law that forces clinics to build hospital-style operating rooms and have admitting privileges at local hospitals (neither regulation makes abortions safer), the rash o
  
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• Donald Trump is an evil genius: How he abandoned political strategy and won over the GOP’s bloodthirsty base

  25-02-2016 16:26 via salon.com
  
  Marco Rubio, the putative runner-up for the Republican nomination, told the press yesterday that he would not win the race by being mean. When the  "Today" show's Willie Geist asked him why he still didn't need to attack Donald Trump, he said,  “That is a media narrative… I’m not in this race to attack anyone… I didn’t run for office to tear up other Republicans.” He's such a nice young man, isn't he? So well-mannered. But you have to wonder just w
  
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• “I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary!”: Black Lives Matter protestors confront Clinton at South Carolina fundraiser

  25-02-2016 14:47 via salon.com
  
  At a private Charleston, South Carolina, residence, surrounded by around 100 supporters, Hillary Clinton was interrupted by a Black Lives Matter activist who unfurled a sign quoting the former first lady on so-called "Superpredators," the widely prevailing 1990s junk-science criminology that the usually African-American juvenile offenders of the time were irredeemable and would undoubtedly grow to terrorize communities."I'm not a Superpredator, Hillary Clinton," the young Black Lives M
  
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• “Black-ish” is fearless: Its brilliant take on police brutality mixes heartbreak and hope

  25-02-2016 14:31 via salon.com
  
  Last night’s episode of “Black-ish,” “Hope,” is about police brutality towards black Americans. This is quite a feat, because “Black-ish” is a family sitcom on network television, and racially influenced police violence is not particularly family-oriented. But that’s why the episode is so fascinating. Last August, NBC’s “The Carmichael Show” took on the topic in one of the best episodes of 2015, a demonstration of mastery of form
  
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• Another Common Core disaster: Corporate-education reformer John King is exactly the wrong man to be secretary of education

  25-02-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold a confirmation hearing for John King Jr., President Obama’s nominee for the position of secretary of education. King has served as the acting education secretary since the beginning of the year after Arne Duncan, who had fulfilled a seven-year tenure, stepped down.King has been one of the most influential and loathed figures of the corporate school-reform movement in recent years. A growing body
  
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• “People understand that the game is rigged”: Ice cream icon Jerry Greenfield explains why he’s sweet on Bernie for prez

  25-02-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  Anyone following the Democratic primary knows that when it comes to high-profile endorsements, this otherwise neck-and-neck race is something of a rout. Most of the party’s leading interest groups and individuals — the figures that comprise what Sen. Bernie Sanders has called “the political establishment” — are all-in with Hillary Clinton. It isn’t even close.But while Clinton may have Planned Parenthood, the American Federation of Teachers, Rep. John Lew
  
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• “When I returned home, it was another hell”: Now’s the time to talk about what we do after Guantánamo

  25-02-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  President Obama has just announced his plan to shutter Guantánamo, sending many of the remaining detainees to third countries and others to federal, state and military prisons in the United States.Closure of Guantánamo means tremendous cost savings to the United States. American taxpayers are now paying $399 million to house approximately 2,000 guards and other staff, which amounts to about 18 personnel for each of the remaining 91 detainees.It also fulfills Obama’s long-stan
  
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• Stephen Colbert opens up on Donald Trump: “I’m not sure if I’m horrified or entertained”

  25-02-2016 13:08 via salon.com
  
  "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert weighed the GOP establishment's options in stopping Trump's primary momentum. The verdict: it's time to lower your standards and settle for Marco Rubio."I'm not sure if I'm horrified or entertained" by the prospect of a President Trump, Colbert admitted. "It's like one of those nature documentaries where the python unhinges his jaw and slowly swallows the capybara -- and then becomes President of the United States.""This billionaire having his way with our electi
  
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• “Finally, a presidential candidate who has the exact same plan as the Ninja Turtles”

  25-02-2016 13:05 via salon.com
  
  "The Late Late Show"'s James Corden isn't a heavyweight among late-night hosts when it comes to political commentary. But in an election cycle dominated by misplaced machismo and anti-establishment vagueness, even the jolly Briton can't resist chiming in. Corden brought out his claws last night in reaction to Donald Trump's WrestleMania-esque Nevada caucus victory speech.On Trump's "I love the poorly educated" statement, Corden said, "Trump is like, 'Let's be honest, I wouldn
  
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• Wow, Trevor Noah just called out Ben Carson: “What makes you the arbiter of black?”

  25-02-2016 13:01 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah has had a turbulent rookie season, but he seems to have found his niche as late-night TV's preeminent Ben Carson satirist. Last night Noah dusted off his Carson impression to examine the candidate's claim that President Obama never lived the "black experience" because he hadn't grown up poor."Being poor isn't what makes you black," Noah continued. "Because, if it is, then there's a lot of people living in trailers in the middle of America who'll be very upset t
  
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• Fight the soulless juggernaut: Big money, machine politics and the real issue separating Sanders and Clinton

  25-02-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Despite Bernie Sanders being tied with her for pledged delegates after last weekend’s Nevada caucuses, the media herd has anointed Hillary Clinton yet again as the inevitable Democratic nominee.  Superdelegates, those undemocratic figureheads and goons of the party establishment, are by definition unpledged and fluid and should never be added to the official column of any candidate until the national convention. To do so is an amoral tactic of intimidation that affects momentum and gi
  
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• 77 years of Hollywood whitewashing: A history of white actors taking roles meant for actors of color

  25-02-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  From "West Side Story" to "Aloha," Hollywood has been whitewashing roles for decades. Watch our video for more.Continue Reading...
  
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• Rubio might want to tell Mitt to stand back: Why a Romney endorsement could be the death knell to Rubio’s fading campaign

  25-02-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  There’s a firming consensus among elite opinion-makers that, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s crushing victory in Nevada, Republican Party leaders must take quick and drastic action to thwart their party’s 2016 front-runner. There’s no agreement as to what that action should look like, but the calls for someone to do something are coming hot and thick. “If Mr. Trump is to be stopped,” warns the Washington Post editorial board, “now is the time for lead
  
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• This is what political insanity looks like: The idea of a Clinton-Kasich “dream ticket” is rooted in fantasy and confusion over what the candidates stand for

  25-02-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is not going to pick John Kasich for her running mate. Hillary Clinton should not pick John Kasich for her running mate.This should be obvious enough a proposition, but we're at that point in the election season where political nerds, as nerds are wont to do, are so caught up in speculating that basic common sense has flown out the window. You see it happen on any geek community where people's wool-gathering gets to the point where they're speculating that Rey
  
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• Leave Yelp’s “entitled millennial” alone: Piling on a “lazy” 20-something is easier than questioning unchecked corporate greed

  25-02-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
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• Mass sperm whale deaths across Europe leave scientists stumped

  25-02-2016 09:45 via salon.com
  
  YORK, United Kingdom — Normally tranquil and windswept beaches across northern Europe were converted into cetacean graveyards this winter, as sperm whale after sperm whale kept stranding itself.From January to early February, 30 of the magnificent creatures died on the coasts of the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and northern France, all “bachelor” or juvenile males.For now the stranding appears to have ceased, yet scientists are hardly any clearer on what cau
  
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• Hillary is anything but “inevitable”: The political press is lying to you about her delegate lead

  25-02-2016 09:30 via salon.com
  
  After three primary battles, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are tied in pledged delegates, or delegates that are decided by the voters, 51-51, and due to New Hampshire’s open primary that Sanders won overwhelmingly, he leads the “popular vote” 60% to 40%. But one wouldn’t know that after a cursory glance at the delegate count of media sources including ABC News, NPR, Chicago Tribune and the New York Times:When one googles “democratic delegate count” in go
  
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• “Baghdad by the Bay”: San Francisco is slowly devolving into a crypto police state

  25-02-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  In the photo, five of Beyoncé’s leather-clad, black-bereted dancers raise their fists in a Black Power salute. The woman in the middle holds a hand-lettered sign up for the camera, bearing three words and a number: “Justice 4 Mario Woods.” Behind them, the crowd at Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, is getting ready for the second half of Super Bowl 50, but the game’s real fireworks are already over.The women in the photo had just finished backing Bey
  
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• Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump is a natural product of neoliberalism

  25-02-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
  Noam Chomsky, 87, is without a doubt the most significant academic figure to cast a highly critical eye on U.S. foreign policies. The 2016 U.S. presidential primaries are in motion and with democratic socialist Bernie Sanders challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, it may be prudent for valued thinkers like Chomsky to turn that eye in on American soil and the inner gears of its political machine.Aaron Williams: Many people now get their daily news via the new
  
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• R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense

  25-02-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
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• Chris Rock is ready: The Oscar host’s historic opportunity is the moment his entire career has led toward

  25-02-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  At some point in the murky prehistoric era otherwise known as Bill Clinton’s second term, I found myself in the living room of a modest apartment in Fort Worth, Texas, with a couple of self-described gun nuts named Darrell and Bo. We were sitting around drinking the beer I had purchased while they showed me their alarming array of weapons — there were at least two dozen firearms in that apartment — and discussed their African-American neighbors, using an epithet I am not allowe
  
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• “Queer sexual bodies are despised”: Garth Greenwell on writing his debut novel and why everything comes back to Kentucky for him, “for better and for worse”

  25-02-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Garth Greenwell begins his reading at the Morris Book Shop in Lexington, Kentucky, with the hint of a tremor in his voice. Maybe it’s shyness, or just a slight case of nerves, a response to the emotions of the moment, which must be running high. His sister is smiling up at him from the front row. He’s reading a passage from his new novel that is set here in this state, a place that raises complicated feelings in him. After all, who could blame him? Although Greenwell was born and rai
  
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• Beyond condoms: 4 more ways to cut the risk of catching an STD

  25-02-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Americans are really scared of catching sexual transmitted diseases. If you don’t believe me, just check out the Scrotoguard, a latex panty for men designed to cover all the bases a condom doesn’t reach. Fortunately, most people run in mellower circles. For them, the condom seems to suffice. And as the Condom Facts campaign reminds us, "Condoms provide the best protection against STDs and HIV. Every time." Still, whenever the subject comes up, people tend to ask, what more can I
  
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