October 7, 2015

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I will not speculate on the motives. NATO doesn’t buy Russia’s apology for violating Turkish airspace.

“The release will be one of the largest discharges of inmates from federal prisons in American history.”

When inmates blow the whistle on abuse in solitary confinement, they are tortured by guards. #longreads

In Kentucky, when jail guards staff kill inmates, nothing happens.

I despise contemporary fiction almost as much as Jonathan Franzen despises women. Barrett Brown on the new Franzen, from prison.

To succeed, the gun-control movement must co-opt the anti-abortion movement’s extremism.

When the CIA deployed to Vietnam and Cambodia, it recruited field agents with items out of a Sears catalog.

In Boulder, NIMBYism is taken to the extreme, which will likely create an untenable housing crisis.

An exercise in why robots should not dictate what news organizations cover.

Upvoted, Reddit’s attempt to repackage viral posts for the larger social web, is far too little, too late. #opinions

My image and me being a female who wears men’s clothing and has a short haircut, it’s something that a lot of people don’t see often. An interview with Syd the Kid.

An oral history of Gucci Mane.

It’s impossible to make a woman ovulate by having sex with her. A gynecologist fact-checks Lil Wayne.

“If you took his word for it, trees would be a collection of disgusting, green squiggly lines…Renoir just sucks at painting.”

Thanksgiving is on its way, and America is in the midst of a canned pumpkin shortage.

We don’t know why there’s so much lobster now—it might be climate change, ethical fishing, or something else.

When David Carr taught his master class in journalism, they skipped “Consider the Lobster”—no one complained.

The overall tone is either dread or hopelessness, and those are two things TV struggles to depict. Why there are no horror TV shows.