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Paul Krugman: Hillary and the Horizontals (NY Times Column)
In America, you can't avoid the race question.
Nate Cohn: There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That's Good News for Trump. (NY Times)
One of the biggest reasons Donald Trump is considered to be a long shot to win the presidency is the diversity of the country. As Joe Scarborough of MSNBC put it, "There are not enough white voters in America for Donald Trump to win while getting routed among minorities." But a growing body of evidence suggests that there is still a path, albeit a narrow one, for Mr. Trump to win without gains among nonwhite voters.
Tom Danehy: Tom wants you to help out former UA football player Warner Smith as he battles ALS (Tucson Weekly)
When I first met Warner Smith, Pima College men's basketball coach Brian Peabody and I were reffing a high-school summer league. Warner was playing for the San Manuel High School Miners. He was a football player first, second and third, but small-town kids did (and do) what all prep athletes should do and that is to play multiple sports.
DAN BILEFSKY: Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It's Called, It's Going Out of Style (NY Times)
One of the oldest forms of punctuation may be dying
Peter Bradshaw: When Marnie Was There review - Studio Ghibli conjure magical coming-of-age tale (The Guardian)
The Japanese animation company again demonstrate a fondness for classic English children's books with this adaptation about a mystical friendship.
Peter Bradshaw: Where to Invade Next review - Moore's upbeat socialism is a welcome corrective (The Guardian)
Invading various countries to bring their socially responsible ideas back to the US, Michael Moore's bracing new doc is doggedly simple, and valuable.
Peter Robinson: "To the songwriters suing Ed Sheeran: you're Amazing, but let it go" (The Guardian)
The men behind Matt Cardle's Top 85 smash have set their lawyers on Sheeran. It will have a chilling effect on music.
Benjamin Lee: "Patricia Clarkson: 'A white male actor should never complain about anything'" (The Guardian)
The refreshingly frank actor on staying employed in her sixth decade, what should be done with Ghostbusters critics and why her new film is Hollywood's worst nightmare.
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THE DOG AND CAT EATERS!
THANK YOU BERNIE!
UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE NOW!
CO2 GETS STONED!
"IT'S ON US, ALL OF US"!
"ITALY FEELS OUR PAIN"!
BEST BUDS!
WHAT DISGUSTING CHRISTIANS!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
After the little quake last night none of the cats would come in the house. Kinda had me worried that there might be more, but all was well today, and they came back in.

Knighted In Queen's Birthday Honours
Rod Stewart
Pop singer Rod Stewart has been awarded a knighthood in a list of honours to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday announced by Buckingham Palace Friday.
The British star, whose songs include "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Maggie May", was honoured for his services to music and charity.
The 71-year-old, who has sold tens of millions of albums during a career spanning six decades, said in response to the announcement that he "couldn't ask for anything more".
Stewart can now style himself Sir Rod and joins a long list of other British musical knights including Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John.
Rod Stewart

Organizers Pony Up For Ranch
Burning Man
Organizers of Burning Man, an annual counter-culture festival that climaxes with the burning of a wooden effigy in the Nevada desert, has bought a ranch in the southwestern state to run year round art and self expression activities, the group said on Friday.
Funded by donations from supporters, Burning Man paid $6.5 million for Fly Ranch, a 3,800-acre (1,538-hectare) property about 20 miles north of Gerlach, Nevada, it said on its website.
The festival, which has drawn more than 60,000 participants to create a temporary city in northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert, will remain in its current location and not move to the ranch, the organizers said.
"As a year-round site, Fly Ranch has the potential to expand Burning Man Project's activities and existing programs, as well as amplify Burning Man's cultural impact into the wider world beyond Black Rock City," the group behind the festival said on the website.
Fly Ranch has a geothermal geyser releasing a continuous stream of water, as well as wetlands, spring-water pools and sagebrush, the Web post said. It is not immediately open to the public.
Burning Man
Light Pollution
Milky Way
People around the world are losing the night sky.
According to a new atlas of light pollution detailed in the journal Science Advances on Friday, more than 80% of the people on Earth live under skies polluted by artificial light.
About 99% of people in the United States and Europe live with some degree of light pollution each night, the study found.
For most of human history, people have been able to look up around the world and see the clouds of the Milky Way glowing above them, but now, one-third of the world's population is unable to see our galaxy's arms stretching out in the night.
The authors of the new atlas - which is an updated and more detailed version of a light pollution atlas published in 2001 - used satellite data and more than 30,000 observations from people on the ground to compile the report which, in digital form, looks something like a heat map showing various places where light pollution is terrible and not so bad.
Milky Way

In Bankruptcy
Gawker
Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy Friday, seeking to sidestep a shutdown from a $140 million judgment for releasing a Hulk Hogan sex tape in a lawsuit bankrolled by a Silicon Valley billionaire.
Following the bankruptcy filing, the embattled US media group said it had reached a deal to sell its media brands to publishing group Ziff Davis.
The moves come with Gawker under fire for its no-holds-barred approach to celebrity coverage, but with questions also raised about whether powerful interests can use their resources to silence media for unfavorable coverage.
The filing in New York follows the whopping jury award earlier this year for releasing a tape of pro wrestler Hogan having sex with a friend's wife.
The case drew heightened attention when Silicon Valley titan Peter Thiel acknowledged that he had helped fund the litigation and others against Gawker, with whom he has feuded for years since it "outed" him as a homosexual.
Gawker
Of Course, It's Fox
Emily Austen
Fox Sports Sun sideline reporter Emily Austen has been fired after making several inappropriate comments on a Barstool Sports' Facebook Live broadcast.
Multiple sources confirmed to Business Insider that Austen - who was serving as a sideline reporter for the Tampa Bay Rays and Orlando Magic broadcasts - has been fired for her comments and will not appear on any future game broadcasts.
During the broadcast, Austen made several racist and anti-Semitic comments. At one point, she said that she "didn't even know Mexicans were that smart," and then later said that everyone knows the "Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in math class." While recalling stories from when she worked as a bartender, she called Jewish people "stingy." She also referred to Kevin Love as a "little b----."
According to Deadspin, the broadcast disappeared from Barstool Sports' Facebook page, but was later uploaded to Vimeo. Barstool Sports said on its Facebook page that it was accidentally deleted, but the disappearance has raised suspicions.
Emily Austen

Gets 40 Years
Michael Jace
Actor Michael Jace, best known for playing a policeman on the TV drama "The Shield," was sentenced on Friday to 40 years to life for shooting his wife dead in front of the couple's two children at their Los Angeles home, a court official said.
Jace, 53, received a credit of 754 days served for his time spent imprisoned since his arrest for the May 2014 killing of April Jace, Los Angeles criminal court clerk Melody Ramirez said.
The actor was upset that his wife wanted a divorce when he shot her once in the back and twice more in the legs, according to prosecutors.
He then called authorities and reported that he had shot his wife, prosecutors said. The couple's sons, ages 8 and 5 at the time, watched the killing in the family's South Los Angeles home, prosecutors said. She was 40 years old when she was slain.
Jace is best known for portraying police officer Julien Lowe, a religious Christian conflicted about his homosexuality, on the FX cable drama "The Shield" that ran from 2002 to 2008.
Michael Jace

Contemptible
Sen. David Perdue
A Republican senator told conservatives Friday they should pray for President Barack Obama and suggested a biblical passage that says, "Let his days be few."
Georgia Sen. David Perdue (R-Lacy Panties) told a gathering of religious conservatives that "we need to be very specific about how we pray." He suggested using Psalms 109:8, which reads: "Let his days be few, and let another have his office."
As the audience at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" conference laughed and applauded, Perdue said, "In all seriousness, I believe that America is at a moment of crisis."
The next lines of the Psalm read: "Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., followed Perdue on stage "and did not condemn him," Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, said. "If Republicans are still wondering why Donald Trump is their nominee, look no further than today's Faith and Freedom conference," she said.
Sen. David Perdue

Classified Files
Petraeus
FBI agents found hundreds of classified documents on Paula Broadwell's home computers in Charlotte during their investigation into her relationship with then-CIA Director David Petraeus, according to newly unsealed FBI documents obtained by theCharlotte Observer newspaper.
More than 300 of those documents were classified as secret, according to a 2013 FBI affidavit accompanying the agency's request to search Petraeus' home in Arlington, Virginia.
The documents, which were unsealed on Tuesday by the US District Court, offer new details of the sweeping federal investigation into the relationship between Broadwell, a Charlotte author, and Petraeus, a highly decorated military commander, the subject of Broadwell's book as well as her former lover.
The probe uncovered their affair, revealed their mishandling of classified documents and led to Petraeus' resignation as head of the CIA. Last year, Petraeus pleaded guilty in Charlotte to a charge of mishandling government documents and was fined $US100,000 ($134,000).
Petraeus admitted to his affair with Broadwell during an October 2012 interview with the FBI in his CIA office. But he said he never gave classified information to her. That answer led some prosecutors to recommend that Petraeus be hit with a felony charge of obstructing a federal investigation. As part of his plea deal with Charlotte-based prosecutors, Petraeus admitted he lied to the FBI.
Petraeus

Top 20
Global Concert Tours
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. Beyonce; $5,840,123; $125.18.
2. Madonna; $5,677,773; $276.74.
3. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; $3,382,725; $121.07.
4. Maroon 5; $2,198,012; $58.39.
5. Justin Bieber; $1,789,158; $100.43.
6. Ricky Martin; $1,255,474; $75.76.
7. Black Sabbath; $1,245,657; $93.81.
8. Rihanna; $1,195,666; $89.15.
9. Iron Maiden; $1,030,057; $62.82.
10. The Who; $1,012,333; $90.82.
11. Mariah Carey; $879,361; $82.31.
12. Carrie Underwood; $749,167; $67.04.
13. Little Mix; $696,986; $49.02.
14. Jason Aldean; $500,955; $62.08.
15. James Taylor; $487,671; $79.86.
16. Ellie Goulding; $469,538; $47.15.
17. Fall Out Boy; $449,159; $48.31.
18. Bryan Adams; $424,647; $62.90.
19. Brad Paisley; $420,013; $45.02.
20. Jeff Dunham; $342,206; $48.46.
Global Concert Tours

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