FOMO for news divisions: Maybe CBS wants some of that industry cred that went to ABC in the last round. "Iâm told that CBS News is leaving open the possibility that the moderators may step in and offer fact-checks of their own." From Oliver Darcy's newsletter. www.status.news/p/the-verge-...
"Unbeknownst to these unsuspecting citizens, a fierce aerial battle was unfolding nearly 30,000 feet above them between two United States Air Force interceptor jets and a single, bright red drone. Despite being unmanned and unarmed, it was the drone which was winning."
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, 17-year-old Larry Kempton of Leona Valley was driving with his mother, Bernice, along Palmdale Boulevard, just west of 10th Street West, when a rocket suddenly exploded in front of their car. Though both Larry and Bernice escaped unharmed, the blast shredded the car's front tire and severely damaged the radiator, hood, and windshield. Elsewhere in Palmdale, a city in northern Los Angeles, residents were being startled by similar rocket attacks.
"After Pete Rose's death was announced...a lot of clever microphone addicts...explain[ed] that he was 'a complicated figure.' Itâs the sort of thing people say about people when they canât believe that the person they're describing is really just what they appear to be." Oh yeah. That's the stuff.
After Pete Roseâs death was announced on Monday night, a lot of clever microphone addicts opened their obligatory thumbnail summaries of him by explaining that he was âa complicated figure.â Itâs the ...
Old lady over the road just had her TV die on her. She bought it many years ago from Currys and so took it back to them to repair. They told her it was out of warrantee. She apparently went at them so hard about how unacceptable an excuse she felt this was that they've given her a ÂŁ500 voucher.
"Jian G. was arrested in April this year after German authorities identified him as a Chinese agent while he was working as an assistant in the office of Maximilian Krah, a member of the European Parliament from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party."
Chinese spying scandal explodes back into the spotlight.
A reminder that the election isnât about the person at the top of the ticket as much as it is about the thousands of people theyâll put in positions of power One candidate will give us more people like this idiot
"Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia Universityâs required great-books course, since 1988.. But a student said, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She was assigned excerpts, poetry and news articles, but [no] book cover to cover."
âA couple of professors told me that their students see reading books as akin to listening to vinyl recordsâsomething that a small subculture may still enjoy, but thatâs mostly a relic of an earlier time.â Read it (or donât!) and weep đ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
