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• Trump’s jackbooted thugs against political correctness: Violence, fascism and the real assault on free speech

  20-03-2016 23:59 via salon.com
  
  America is having two kinds of conversations about political correctness, one of which Donald Trump’s violent campaign rallies bring more clearly into view.  One kind of conversation is a well-meaning attempt to think about the limits of civility and of free speech.  The other, which I’ve warned about, is an attempt to use “political correctness” as an epithet against those who oppose bigotry and violence.  Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric of violen
  
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• “Music is so abused these days”: XTC’s Andy Partridge opens up about songwriting, painting and developing the “cruel parent gene” toward your own art

  20-03-2016 23:00 via salon.com
  
  From the late '70s and on through the '80s and '90s, Swindon, U.K., pop chameleons XTC produced album after album brimming with indelible pop music. Although the band's early work was very much of the time—albums such as 1979's "Drums & Wires" and 1980's "Black Sea" had new wave's nervy energy, as well as post-punk's forward-glancing approach and playbook-ripping attitude—the band never chased trends: Later LPs such as 1986's beloved "Skylarking" and 1989's psych-pop opus "Orange
  
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• Just chilling ☀️ https://t.co/aQuBh2KHuc

  20-03-2016 22:43 via twitter.com
  
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• Miseries of a stay-at-home dad

  20-03-2016 22:00 via salon.com
  
  I bounce Henry on my shoulder at two o’clock in the morning. He moans and raises his head to survey the dark living room. He stares over my shoulder, eyes wide open, examining the shadows. Breast milk soaks my t-shirt, along with drool created by tiny, jagged teeth piercing his gums. I push his head back down with my palm, but he resists and releases a defiant scream. I bounce. I bargain with myself. I would donate a kidney for a full night’s rest. I would empty my checking account
  
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• The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV’s bold angry men

  20-03-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  In this season of “Better Call Saul,” AMC’s prequel series to “Breaking Bad,” a specific image has become motif. It’s not just some clever craftsmanship, although creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould—also of “Breaking Bad”— show off their technical abilities with every scene of their current show. It’s an image that encapsulates the tragedy of “Better Call Saul”’s protagonist, Jimmy McGill, played with virtuos
  
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• “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

  20-03-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  The Negro has long since learned that his real heroes are always depicted as villains by the white world.—LIBERATOR
  America was unprepared for the name “Muhammad Ali.” Seldom had a man’s new name mattered so much to so many. He was not the first boxer to change his name. Countless other fighters changed their names too, many the sons of immigrants, who willingly adopted a new identity to make themselves more acceptable, more marketable, and more “American.” Bu
  
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• The breathtaking human toll of environmental pollution

  20-03-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  We all know that pollution is bad for our health.Just how bad was laid out by the World Health Organization this week in a bleak new report on environmentally related deaths.New analysis of data from 2012 found that a staggering 12.6 million people died that year from living and working in toxic environments.That’s almost equivalent to the combined populations of New York City and Los Angeles, and represents nearly a quarter of the 55.6 million deaths recorded that
  
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• Fox News “brainwashed” so many dads: “People are being bamboozled on a massive scale”

  20-03-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Filmmaker Jen Senko noticed a disturbing phenomenon. Her father, Frank, was a goofy, fun, non-political dad who treated people with respect when she was a child. However, when she was older, she noticed her father would rant about “Feminazis,” listen to Rush Limbaugh and watch Fox News. He became the family pest, forcing one-sided discussions of conservative politics and becoming enraged and unreachable after watching Fox News.Senko investigates the reasons for this transformation in
  
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• The 1 percent wins again: How entrepreneurship — supposedly the cornerstone of American society — favors the wealthy

  20-03-2016 16:59 via salon.com
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• Bernie never stood a chance: The game was always rigged for a Hillary win

  20-03-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Did you know that if a given political party already has an incumbent in a particular political post, it’s standard practice in the United States for a political party to prohibit its voter-list to be purchased by anyone who’s not an incumbent office-holder in that party — including by someone who wishes to challenge or contest within that party the incumbent, in a primary election?Only incumbents have access to that crucial list — crucial for any candidate in a primary
  
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• Who are these idiot Donald Trump supporters? Trump loves the poorly educated — and they love him right back

  20-03-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  
  For all of his buffoonery about “telling it like it is,” Donald Trump is the most politically correct and cowardly candidate in the presidential race. If he actually had the strength to articulate uncomfortable and inconvenient truths, he would turn his favorite word – “loser” – not on full-time professionals in the press, but on his supporters.The New York Times recently ran a report on “Trump geography,” seeking to solve one of the most bizarre m
  
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• This drug now rivals heroin as a killer, and the drug war is to blame

  20-03-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  
  A surge of overdose deaths that swept through Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit a decade ago came to an abrupt halt after Mexican agents raided a clandestine laboratory outside the capital that allegedly produced huge quantities of an extremely powerful opioid called fentanyl. The potent drug, pharmaceutically used for pain relief, had infected the United States’ heroin supply. Just one bust appeared to have a major impact.Now, amid an unprecedented opioid crisis, fentanyl has begun t
  
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• “Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing?

  20-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Author’s Note: This story in no way suggests that Baltimore is a city unique with these issues. Indeed, absent specific references to Baltimore areas and landmarks, these observations could reflect on any American city.Keith takes a break from his usual post near City Hall and takes the light rail to a busy intersection at the far reaches of Timonium near Warren Road.  He claims that it is there that he collected $200 in one day. If true that would make him the hands-down one-day top
  
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• Erased from history: Too many women writers — like Constance Fenimore Woolson — are left to languish in moldy archives. What will it take to bring them back?

  20-03-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Two of the books on many of the best-of-2015 lists were written by women who died in virtual obscurity, Clarice Lispector in 1977 and Lucia Berlin in 2004. The republication of their stories was big news last year, bringing them to the mass audiences denied them in their lifetimes. Lit Hub even declared 2015 “The Year of Rediscovered Women Writers,” in its list of the top five literary stories of the year. How could these gifted writers have been erased from history, so many wondered
  
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• The system is just this rigged: Dark money, Citizens United and the secret story of how big money stole our democracy

  20-03-2016 11:00 via salon.com
  
  D.C.’s SweatshopsNot too far from the Capitol Hill townhouses are the call centers that both Democrats and Republicans use to dial for dollars. Endlessly.This is how Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, described it: “We sit at these desks with stacks of names in front of us and short bios and histories of giving . . . and we make calls to our faithful friends and ask them to give money or host a fundraiser.”National Public Radio tried to get access to the call centers fo
  
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• Stop mooning over John Kasich: He’s not more “reasonable” than Trump, he’s just better at camouflaging his agenda

  20-03-2016 10:59 via salon.com
  
  Yes, I saw the Kasich victory speech on Tuesday. It was a good speech, especially for those of us who’ve been despairing over the fact that the GOP frontrunner’s speeches tend to be composed of disjointed screaming soundbites and outright calls to violence.John Kasich is good at making speeches. He’s good at looking and sounding “moderate”. His lines about his fellow Republicans’ “War on the Poor” from 2013 and his Bible-based defense of Obamacare
  
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• It is urgent that she’s stopped: Hillary Clinton’s nightmare neoliberalism and American exceptionalism makes the world a dangerous place

  20-03-2016 10:58 via salon.com
  Much mail arrived after the column published in this space last Sunday, wherein I examined the likely character of a Clinton II foreign policy—dangerous to Americans and all others—and the flaccid logic common among those planning to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton come November. All but one of the letters were from women. They all said, one way or another, “I can’t vote for her, but now what? Where does this leave me?”A novelist friend of discerning, historically i
  
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• “Please explain to us Mr. Trump”: Our gracious Japanese hosts kept asking the same question and we were hard-pressed to come up with an answer

  20-03-2016 00:29 via salon.com
  
  “Perhaps you can explain to us Mr. Trump.”As the question hung in the air, the other members of the Young U.S. Researchers Delegation and I exchanged glances — wordlessly negotiating who was going to tackle the question this time.Toward the end of nearly every meeting on our week-long trip to Japan, we were asked to account for the Republican front-runner on behalf of our nation.A young woman from another organization on the delegation launched into an explanation of three deca
  
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