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• “I’m kind of a wuss”: Norman Reedus on not being a Daryl Dixon badass — and finally getting an on-screen romance

  17-04-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  Norman Reedus plays an irresistible love interest for French vacationer Romy (Diane Kruger) in the flinty little indie “Sky.” When Romy, who is dressed as a bunny in Las Vegas, meets Reedus’ Diego at the film’s midpoint, he is clad all in black. The hair not under his cowboy hat covers most of his grizzled face. This bad boy would seem dangerous if he wasn’t so damn appealing.Diego picks Romy up for sex—he assumes she is a prostitute—because his cha
  
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• GOP’s greatest outrage of all: The Republican Party is systematically screwing its own voters

  17-04-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump has been cranky this week, and the mainstream media don’t seem terribly sympathetic. Apoplectic over the way rival Ted Cruz has managed to pluck delegates from state conventions in Colorado and Louisiana, Trump has called the Republican Party “crooked,” “corrupt,” “rigged” and “dirty.”This is a scandal of gigantic proportions. The Republican Party has done a plethora of heinous things over the years to the poor and powerless, but
  
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• Led Zeppelin are not thieves: “Stairway to Heaven” fight rests on a nearly impossible copyright standard

  17-04-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  The poet T.S. Eliot had this to say about the creative process: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”Unfortunately, copyright law doesn’t line up very well with this realistic appraisal of how a lot of art, especially popular art, is created. The latest example of that disjunction is the lawsuit brought by the estate of Randy Wolfe, aka Randy California, again
  
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• Shakespeare wasn’t a conservative: Stop using his plays to justify ruthless agendas

  17-04-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  For $28,000 a day, a company called Movers & Shakespeares uses Shakespeare’s plays to teach “leadership” and “critical business” skills to clients such as the Wharton School of Business and Raytheon Missile Systems. The company was founded by Kenneth Adelman, a Reagan administration alumnus and neoconservative think-tanker, and his wife, Carol Adelman, also a conservative think-thank veteran. As detailed in the Washington Post, this Washington, D.C., “powe
  
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• The battle of New York is upon us: What you need to know about this week’s primaries

  17-04-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is feeling so confident in her chances of winning the New York primary on Tuesday, she took time out of her campaign on Friday to play dominoes like a common unemployed day laborer. This was an obvious pander to working-class voters by Wall Street’s favored candidate. It upset the 3-Card Monte Union Local 100, which immediately endorsed Bernie Sanders. Things are getting ugly in New York, folks!Jokes aside, there is not a lot of drama left about how Tuesday’s election
  
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• White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008

  17-04-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  Racism may be the single most important feature of contemporary American politics and the key to understanding the Obama Presidency. This is not to say that other things don’t matter: class, gender, religion, region all certainly affect political views. But if you want to understand the broad contours of American politics today, you need to examine race. Previously, I’ve argued that whites are rapidly leaving the Democratic Party because of racism. But in his new book, "Post-Rac
  
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• Deadly work for $55 a day: The hidden horrors of the recycling industry

  17-04-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Darkness had enveloped the Newell Recycling yard by the time Erik Hilario climbed into a front-end loader on a cold evening in January 2011. Just 19 years old, Hilario, an undocumented immigrant, had followed his father from Mexico to an industrial park in East Point, Ga., near Atlanta, where they worked as low-skilled laborers amid jagged piles of scrap metal bound for the smelter.Hilario drove to a paved section of the nine-acre yard known as the defueling or car-processing area. Here, accord
  
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• Wall Street Journal slimes Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore — forgets about George W. Bush’s monumental blunders

  17-04-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  
  In an article titled “Islam and the Radical West" published in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Bret Stephens raises the important issue of the radicalization of Western Muslims. But as far as responsible and informed journalism goes, the piece’s credibility ends there. Stephens goes on to make a number of stereotypical and weakly supported claims regarding Islam while taking amateurish pot shots at some of America’s most important thinkers, including Noam Chomsky.Although St
  
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• Call her the baby whisperer: This neuroscientist knows how to get any infant to sleep through the night

  17-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Polly Moore is something of a baby whisperer. The Director of Sleep Research at California Clinical Trials in San Diego and author of “The Natural Baby Sleep Solution”, she’s identified the rhythms of sleep and wakefulness of newborns and understands how parents can use them to help any child maintain a healthy sleep cycle. In other words, she can help you put your crying baby to bed.This wasn’t always the case. Moore, who, in addition to her in-depth knowledge
  
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• Two despised frontrunners, two dying parties and a deeply broken system: How did we get here?

  17-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  To paraphrase a great American poet of the 1980s, this is not our beautiful house. We get a tiny breather in the political calendar this week, and it’s a useful moment to take half a step back from the most chaotic and disordered presidential campaign in living memory and ask ourselves the big question: What in the name of Jiminy Cricket is going on here? I spent the week digging into the past for clues to the strange dynamics of the present: To be clear, I did not conclude that Donald Tru
  
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• Our media is just this dumb: Easily suckered press screws Bernie Sanders again

  17-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  The media is in an uproar over Bernie Sanders, following his double-digit landslide win in Wisconsin, which has raised the very real possibility that he might win the New York primary, a profound threat to Clinton's credibility, even if her delegate lead were to remain prohibitive. Surrogate attacks questioning his fitness dovetailed with a media narrative fueled by an interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, which the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza called “pretty c
  
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• She’ll make Iran, Syria worse: What the media won’t tell you about our foreign policy — and how hawkish Hillary will pour the kerosene

  17-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  What an unusual season—or seasons, I should say. The inner workings of American foreign policy are rarely as exposed as they have been over the past couple of years. We ought to appreciate the clarity of this interim and take from it lessons that will make us smarter. And angrier, which is my abiding hope.One still has to look past the well-embroidered drapery of mis- and disinformation that official Washington weaves to understand events as they are. As ever, one must read the press not t
  
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• Happy bday Bryan! https://t.co/3FLRSmH9Vj

  17-04-2016 05:04 via twitter.com
  
  Happy bday Bryan! https://t.co/3FLRSmH9Vj
  
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• “I am the human being that I am today because of the Grateful Dead”: Bill Walton shares life lessons from 859 shows

  17-04-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  Bill Walton has always marched to a different drummer. Two different drummers, in point of fact: Bill Kreutzman and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.If you are any kind of a basketball fan, well, Walton needs no introduction. If you are like me, sadly indifferent to the sport, there is still much more to Walton than meets the eye, despite his 6-11 height. A Center of Gravity for one of legendary Coach John Wooden’s championship UCLA teams, Portland Trailblazer and then Boston Celtic league
  
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• Let’s thank Donald Trump: The Ivy League, the 1 percent and the education horror brought forward by his racist campaign

  17-04-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  The clear racism fueling Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, no longer talked about only in hushed tones on the far left, has opened discussion of other impacts of racism. We are finally able to talk about the toxic impact of dog-whistle politics in a number of areas of public policy — not the least being education.The decline of American urban public universities is collateral damage from recent right-wing and neo-liberal dominance of U.S. state governments. Before the rise of Tru
  
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