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• First ghosted, now zombied: The only thing worse than a love fading away is when it comes staggering back to life

  29-03-2016 23:50 via salon.com
  
  I think about the social dynamics of relationships a lot. Part of it has to do with my interest in why we do what we do, and another part has to do with wanting to seek answers to questions I don’t fully understand.He seemed to have interest… that look couldn’t have meant nothing, right? That date was superb, what next?The act/attempt of dating has the simultaneous capacity to make a person feel like the center of someone’s universe or mere ash in the dust of the cosmos.
  
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• “You are a turnip”: 14-year-old journalist receives “dozens” of mean tweets after calling out Donald Trump

  29-03-2016 23:48 via salon.com
  
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• David Brooks finally gets it: He nails the roots of Trump’s toxic sexism — but avoids addressing its consequences

  29-03-2016 22:56 via salon.com
  
  People on the left love to hate David Brooks. They say he’s pompous, pseudo-intellectual, glib, and evasive. Wonkette, for instance, has led a constant stream of attacks on him, with a recent column titled “Please Enjoy The Slow But Steady Unraveling Of David Brooks.” Here at Salon, writers go after Brooks regularly, with great gusto, and will continue to.It’s certainly true that Brooks simplifies complex issues, avoids talking about race unless he’s forced to, and
  
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• Where mass incarceration inflames the HIV crisis: Report shows Louisiana jails violate prisoners’ human rights

  29-03-2016 22:55 via salon.com
  
  "I thought I would die there," said a Louisiana inmate. "I waited 41 days for my HIV medications... They did nothing for me at all."This chilling story comes from a new report that details how the U.S. criminal justice system is violating human rights, failing to provide basic HIV services to thousands of inmates in jails in Louisiana."Paying the Price: Failure to Deliver HIV Services in Louisiana Parish Jails," an exhaustive new study by Human Rights Watch, or HRW, shows how mass incarceration
  
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• Trump’s noxious virility myth: Why the GOP frontrunner’s “big, beautiful wall” is about more than just borders

  29-03-2016 22:55 via salon.com
  
  Penile projection is one way to characterize this presidential election cycle. Castration anxiety another. As testament to his frontrunner status, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has perfectly tethered his nationalism to his misogyny. Frankly, his popularity is no surprise given that this is the first presidential election cycle where a woman’s nomination and presidency are more than just a passing fancy. While women have run for POTUS before, no one has been as remotely close as H
  
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• Clueless Pauly Shore grills Khloé Kardashian on why she “dates black dudes”

  29-03-2016 22:03 via salon.com
  
  Pauly Shore is living out a bizarre second act.Witness a December 2014 episode of obscure comedy podcast "Hollywood Handbook," Shore, misinterpreting the hyper-irony of hosts Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements, became hostile. Listen:At 36:30, he asks if he has to answer "that fucking question" about the last time he "karate-chopped someone in anger."At 41:00, he's coerced (by a bit he doesn't understand) into saying, "I don't want to cause any riots anymore with the African-Americans i
  
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• Donald Trump won’t stop trolling Michelle Fields, suggests he’ll now press charges against ex-Breitbart reporter

  29-03-2016 22:01 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump reacted to news of his campaign manager's arrest in Florida on battery charges Tuesday with his usual Twitter tantrum, lashing out to mock a former Breitbart staffer who filed a criminal compliant against Trump's top aide after he forcefully yanked her away from the Republican presidential frontrunner earlier this month."When she found out there was a tape from my facilitate, she changed her tune," Trump asserted on Twitter this afternoon, continuing his campaign's attacks on Michel
  
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• “My Springsteen sin” apology rings hollow: Wheelchair scam to score concert tickets isn’t funny — and this “confession” does even more harm

  29-03-2016 21:16 via salon.com
  
  In early March, my husband and I attended a Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band show in St. Louis at the Chaifetz Arena. We were lucky to be there: Tickets to the show, which took place in the smallest arena of his current tour celebrating 1980's "The River" album, sold out in roughly a day. Thanks to some good Ticketmaster mojo, I snagged a pair of the least-expensive seats—grabbing whatever I could before the online crunch overloaded the system—and we flew there for the weeke
  
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• The strange silence about Hillarymania: Clinton fires up voters more than Bernie does, so why is no one talking about it?

  29-03-2016 20:45 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton suffers from an "enthusiasm gap." Or so we are told, over and over and over again. Even people who like her can't really like her, can they? But she reminds middle-aged male pundits of their ex-wives! Surely everyone sees things the same way, don't they?On Sunday, Howard Gutman of The Washington Post argued that Clinton is so uninspiring that her only hope of winning swing states is anti-Donald Trump sentiment. " Some people like her and many more tolerate her, but virtually
  
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• Let’s all laugh at Ann Coulter: She’s slamming Trump now, but right-wing loudmouth proudly defended his demented ideas

  29-03-2016 20:20 via salon.com
  
  Ann Coulter is inarguably Donald Trump's most vocal backer, calling him the only hope for "the last genuinely Christian country on earth." But after the billionaire bloviator took a not-so-veiled swipe at the looks of rival Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, Coulter has suddenly called foul, publicly chiding her candidate for behaving like a "mental" 16-year-old."Trump is different," Coulter told WMAL back in July, lavishing praise on the former reality TV star. "We have been lied to for 30 
  
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• North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory blames interloping, out-of-state media for outrage over new “common sense” anti-LGBTQ law

  29-03-2016 15:48 via salon.com
  
  North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) complained on Monday that the problem with the state's recently passed anti-gay law isn't that it fundamentally violates constitutional guarantees to equal protection, but that the media is reporting about the fact that it does.Not that he's worried, because what really matters is that he has "not had one corporation tell [him] that they're threatening to leave. We’ve clearly stated to them that their policies do not change [but] they did not know th
  
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• Fox News analyst denies existence of “sexist treatment” of Hillary Clinton, claims her campaign is lying “to energize the female base”

  29-03-2016 14:48 via salon.com
  
  As if the world needed further proof that people fail to notice what they are deliberately trying not to see, Fox News' Kirsten Powers appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Monday evening and denied that Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has faced any sexism in this election to date.Former Secretary of State Clinton, Powers argued, "has been treated pretty well this time around," but "it makes sense that they would try to say that she’s being treated with sexist treatment" in order
  
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• Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon says she may not vote for Hillary Clinton: “Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately”

  29-03-2016 14:44 via salon.com
  
  Hollywood legend and prominent Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon would sooner vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton if her candidate were to eventually lose the Democratic primary.“I really want to be on the right side of history and this is a shot we’re not going to have in my lifetime to have a candidate that’s so morally consistent, makes decisions, whose judgment proves to be true but does it at a time when it’s not popular
  
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• The horror of the Trump doctrine: Inside the GOP frontrunner’s terrifying interview with the NY Times

  29-03-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump managed to shock the world once again. Last week, he actually sank so low that he publicly attacked Ted Cruz's wife Heidi's looks. Not that anyone thought he wasn't the type to say such rude things.  He's made a habit of it for many years. But he is running for president and, more importantly, he did this during a period when all eyes were on Europe in the wake of another devastating terrorist attack, and he was simultaneously criticizing the president for continuing on his his
  
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• Karl Rove refuses to say the RNC will not change the rules in order to prevent Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination

  29-03-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  On The O'Reilly Factor Monday evening, guest Karl Rove refused to tell guest host Eric Bolling that the Republican establishment would do everything in its power to avoid a brokered convention."If Donald Trump has a plurality of delegates, but not a majority," Bolling asked, "will you get behind the guy?""The rules in the party have always said that the nominee of the Republican Party is chosen by a majority of the delegates at the convention," he said.
  "That is the rule that Donald Trump will h
  
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• “We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex

  29-03-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
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• California’s $15 minimum wage is a really big deal. Here’s what you need to know

  29-03-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  The biggest victory for working people in the 2016 election is on the verge of being realized without a vote being cast. California labor unions, the legislature, and Governor Jerry Brown are poised to consummate a deal that would raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, indexing it to inflation thereafter. Though several large California cities were already headed to the $15 threshold (and they can go further if they want, the statewide minimum is just a floor), this would be th
  
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• We must smash the Clinton machine: Democratic elites and the media sold out to Hillary this time, but change is coming

  29-03-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  The Democratic establishment is putting all the heat it can on Bernie Sanders to drop his weapons and put his hands where we can see them. This includes the media establishment. Last Monday Politico ran a piece headlined "Democrats to Sanders: Time to wind it down," quoting a bunch of senators who said Bernie could stay in so long as he talks just about stuff he and Hillary agree on. (Claire McCaskill: “If the contrast is about what separates us from Donald Trump, then I think it
  
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• Why Ted Cruz’s sex life matters: The GOP’s toxic “family values” charade deserves continued scrutiny

  29-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  When is an affair just an affair? And when is someone’s private sex public business? Those are the questions of the moment following two sets of high-profile allegations involving Republican politicians engaging in extramarital relations. Last week, the National Enquirer alleged that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz had been “caught cheating” with five mistresses, choosing not to identify the women by name. Earlier in the week, a story broke that Robert Bentley, Alabama&rsqu
  
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• The “Bernie Bro” smear must go: #BernieMadeMeWhite claps back at idiotic primary meme

  29-03-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  It didn’t take the Washington Post long to change the headline on an article regarding this weekend's Democratic primary contests: “Why did Bernie Sanders dominate Saturday? Caucuses in whiter states.”Whoops.Hawaii, where Sanders won in a landslide, is only 27-percent white. Unfortunately, that’s inconvenient for a persistent media narrative describing the median Bernie voter as an entitled 21-year old white guy tethered to Reddit and mansplaining the revolution on s
  
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• Hideous, disgusting racists: Let’s call Donald Trump and his supporters exactly what they are

  29-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Conor Friedersdorf has written a solid essay on questions of free speech and “liberal intolerance” at The Atlantic. As someone who was heavily involved with campus politics while an undergraduate--and that also found concepts such as “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” to be intellectually hollow and condescending--I find much to commend about “How Emory's Student Activists Are Fueling Trumpism.” However, in an otherwise compelling essay, Frieders
  
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• Debbie Wasserman Schultz is loathed by Democrats, yet just got a head-scratching endorsement by Obama. Here are some guesses why

  29-03-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  If there’s one thing that supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton agree on, it’s this: When it comes to her work as chair of the Democratic National Committee, a position she’s held since 2011, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is bad and should feel bad. Consensus holds that she’s either in the tank for Clinton, incompetent — or both.And when it comes to her work as a member of Congress, where she’s lately distinguished herself as a strong defender
  
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• Ted Cruz’s health care calculation: Why Obamacare’s loudest foe has no plan to replace it

  29-03-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  The 2016 Republican presidential primary has never really been about policy, but now that the race is down to two cartoon character villains and confused grandpa John Kasich, there’s really not much going besides personality clashes and speculative arguments about electability. When the candidates aren’t whacking each other for what they or group in their orbits have said about each other’s spouses, they’re arguing over which one of them does better in hypothetical match-
  
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• Pacifism in an age of terror: Author of fascinating new book explores the relationship between violence and freedom

  29-03-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  The recent attacks in Brussels have once again raised a difficult question: How do we combat terrorism? It’s a complicated problem, and there are no easy answers, but almost everyone agrees that violence is necessary. Even the most dovish liberal generally concedes that force in defense of freedom is an unfortunate – but inescapable – reality. This is especially true when confronted by groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda.Dustin Howes is the David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professor
  
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• 6 ways to radically reform our corrupt financial system

  29-03-2016 10:45 via salon.com
  
  The following is an excerpt from the new book Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016):The growth of the top 1 percent was enabled by specific policy decisions. It occurred when we removed safeguards that protected consumers and taxpayers from excesses in the financial industry and failed to update other common-sense regulations. It occurred when corporations cast aside their own long-term interests in favor of shor
  
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• Donald Trump slouches towards Bethlehem: We’re witnessing the birth of new American politics

  29-03-2016 10:30 via salon.com
  
  The other week, feeling sick, I spent a day on my couch with the TV on and was reminded of an odd fact of American life. More than seven months before Election Day, you can watch the 2016 campaign for the presidency at any moment of your choosing, and that’s been true since at least late last year. There is essentially never a time when some network or news channel isn’t reporting on, discussing, debating, analyzing, speculating about, or simply drooling over some aspect of the prima
  
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• The 10 friendliest states for marijuana enthusiasts

  29-03-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  Which are the marijuana-friendliest states in the nation? Where would a pot person want to buy a home and settle down?The online national real estate search site Estately has taken a crack at answering those burning questions. The site's blog's Ultimate Lists cranks out all sorts of creative comparative data—cities with the most romantic homes for sale, states with the most pizza—and now it's done the same with weed.To measure marijuana-friendliness, Estately looked at the number of
  
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• Hillary will never get it: Why Bernie is running away with the youth vote

  29-03-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  Team Hillary should be worried about the lopsided vote Sanders is receiving from young people of all colors. Not only is the vote one-sided, but so is the enthusiasm. Hillary's vulnerabilities with young people includes her perceived untrustworthiness, her vote for the Iraq war and her establishment politics. But it all gets wrapped up into what she calls Bernie's "single issue"—Wall Street.Bernie and his supporters see Wall Street as synonymous with runaway inequality, which is the key i
  
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• “Blue Velvet”’s mystery of masculinity: How David Lynch’s masterwork reshaped American consciousness

  29-03-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
  Right about the midpoint of David Lynch’s 1986 breakthrough “Blue Velvet” — and given Lynch’s structural obsessions, it may literally be the midpoint — there is a brief sequence that captures this powerful, disorienting film and all its themes in miniature. It begins when Frank Booth, the psychotic, charismatic antihero played by Dennis Hopper, turns and looks at the audience (he certainly isn’t speaking to any specific person) and announces, “I&rs
  
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• Consent alone is a low bar for sex: “We have become more comfortable talking about girls’ victimization than girls’ pleasure”

  29-03-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  I'm not going to tell you to go right now and buy a copy of Peggy Orenstein's "Girls & Sex." I'm going to tell you to buy two copies: One for yourself, and one for the teenager in your life. Because kids — boys and girls, gay and straight — need to understand not just what a new generation of girls is doing in their intimate lives. They need to know what they're not doing. Like when they're not saying no to stuff they're not into, because it's easier than arguing about it. L
  
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• Michael Ware’s Iraq War doc doesn’t hold up: “Only The Dead See The End Of War” captures the horror and confusion, but skimps on analysis

  29-03-2016 00:57 via salon.com
  
  “Only The Dead See The End Of War” is difficult to interpret without context. This is frustrating, because documentaries, usually, are vehicles that provide context—and for the topic of fomenting insurgency during the Iraq War, context would be extraordinarily useful. The documentary’s title is a slightly different form of a famous quote from one of George Santayana’s soliloquies, “Only the dead have seen the end of war,” which is often erroneously attri
  
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• Scientists have discovered an unbelievably simple new way to fight childhood obesity

  29-03-2016 00:15 via salon.com
  
  Children in America are steadily getting more and more obese. The numbers are staggering. In 1980, 7 percent of American children aged 6-11 years were obese. By 2012, that figure more than doubled, to 18 percent. During the same period, adolescent obesity rose from 5 percent to nearly 21 percent.Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, who has set his sights on tackling America’s obesity epidemic, has singled out the problem of childhood obesity in particular. Last October, he welcomed two
  
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