A cable company cuts off service to a run-down condo complex in Florida after an armed robber attacks a cable guy. Residents have no alternative way to get online.
•This is lovely. Two owners of a neighborhood Asheville coffee shop bragged online about their pickup game—including how it’s okay to bang a fattie once in a while but still embarrassing, that “One thing that mediocre skinny girls can do is be sweet, submissive and feminine. Makes a massive difference and can often add a point.” and discussing their sexual conquests in detail. And one guy joking online about having sex with a woman while she was hospitalized and possibly too drugged-up to consent (ROFL, am I right?). A friend of mine who actually knows them is quite apopleptic. And like her, I doubt their apology is more than a CYA.
•A class-action lawsuit alleges Twitter eavesdrops on direct messages to target its advertising better.
•Here’s a look at some of the right-wing’s grimdark fantasies about Obama and his plans to use the military/blacks/immigrants/Muslims as a strike force to take over America, or use Ebola to impose martial law, etc., etc., etc. It’s noteworthy several of the quoted whackjobs invoke Ferguson as some sort of ground zero in the conspiracy. Nope, no racial issues on the far right … not even when they’re denying that the Ahmed Mohamed case had anything to do with bigotry (because if it had been a white kid, I’m sure Limbaugh and other right-wingers would be discussing how he’d built something that looks just like a bomb).
•In fairness, Richard Dawkins proves atheists can be just as bigoted.
•What is one little lie compared to the murder of babies? As if to prove the point of that post, Jonah Goldberg declares Carly Fiorina lying about the Planned Parenthood videos isn’t really a lie because it’s pretty close to accurate, and the sort of thing she talked about happens all the time even if it wasn’t in that particular video so there you are, ha!
•The government-financed Atlanta Braves stadium—$300 million and located out where there are fewer black people—is not only a giveaway to millionaires, it turns out it’s a badly planned giveaway.
•I’m not sure this list of male-centric products shows masculinity is fragile (any more than women’s products being in pink says women want it that way), but it does show that’s what marketers hope for.
•Crap. A cop tickets a woman driver, then admits he wouldn’t have done it if she hadn’t been HIV positive—he touched her possessions and he wasn’t wearing gloves! Dammit, she had an obligation to warn him!
•The increasingly oppressive toxic workplace where overwork and high demand are draining the life out of men as well as women. Related, an Australian woman discusses the time confetti problem—having lots of down time but divided into such tiny chunks it’s not usable.
•The teens in the Fayetteville self-exploitation case I mentioned earlier this week have plea bargained down: no drugs, no alcohol, stay in school and no possession of a cell phone. The last one strikes me as seriously unreasonable in this day and age.
•Martin Shrkeli, the hedge-fund manager turned pharmaceutical executive was apparently a nasty piece of work even before his company started jacking up prices for lifesaving drugs. Also see here.
•France’s ban on Uber using regular drivers (rather than professional taxi drivers) has withstood a court challenge.
