Monday, April 10, 2017

@3:42, 4/10/17

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1
Business Day

Fox Asks Law Firm to Investigate Bill O’Reilly Harassment Claim

Wendy Walsh, a guest on Mr. O’Reilly’s show who detailed accusations against him to The Times, called Fox’s anonymous hotline, prompting the investigation.

Faux News needs to know what can be known about Bill O'Reilly.

2
U.S.

‘It Did Not Stick’: The First Federal Effort to Curb Police Abuse

In 1997, the Justice Department entered its first consent decree, with the Pittsburgh police. Nineteen other cities have followed suit, with varying results.

Racism is deeply ingrained.
Cities have had difficulty understanding the federal law includes them.

3
U.S.

A Polarized Supreme Court, Growing More So

Judge Neil M. Gorsuch’s confirmation puts the court ideologically where it has been since 2006, but President Trump could push it much further right.

Yes.

Obvious to me.

4
World

Hindu Group Claims Christians Tried Forced Conversions in India

The encounter underscores the tensions between increasingly emboldened right-wing Hindu activists and India’s minority groups, particularly over missionary activity.

India and Pakistan fight.

5
N.Y. / Region

With ‘Listening Tour,’ de Blasio Tries Courting Staten Island. Again.

The island hasn’t always been kind to the mayor. But as he plans a satellite city hall in each borough before November’s election, guess which one is his first stop.

Missionary work.

6
Technology

Farhad’s and Mike’s Week in Tech: Why We’ll Miss Walt Mossberg

Twitter fights the government, Google fights Uber, and we fight back tears over a tech columnist’s retirement.

Walt Mossberg thought about how people would use a computer.

7
Opinion

Hannah Is a Girl. Doctors Finally Treat Her Like One.

A consensus on how to treat transgender children is emerging in medicine, if not in Washington.

Sex and gender are mostly in one's head.

Be who and what you are in your mind.

8
Health

The Trump Resistance Found Early Success. Can It Also Find Momentum?


resistance is not government.

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people
shall not perish from the earth."

9
Real Estate

A Plague of Ice Cream Trucks

The nonstop jingle, the noxious fumes — what’s a person to do about those annoying ice cream trucks idling in the neighborhood?

Require human power.
Use ice and salt for refrigeration.
If the vendor wants to sing that is fine.

10
U.S.

Bannon’s Worldview: Dissecting the Message of ‘The Fourth Turning’

The book makes the case that world events unfold in cycles of roughly 80 years each that can be divided into four turnings: growth, maturation, entropy and destruction.

Many speculators have lost their shirts on business cycle theories.
If Bannon is another it will please me.

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