Monday, December 17, 2018

@15:52, 12/16/18

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U.S.

How Do You Recover After Millions Have Watched You Overdose?

Amid an opioid crisis, police and strangers with cameras are posting raw images of drug users passed out. For those whose bleakest moments now live online, life is never the same.

A few manage to recover.  Many do not.

Prohibition does not help the addicts.


2
U.S.

Trump Threatens Shutdown in Combative Appearance With Democrats

During a public airing of hostilities with Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the president undercut Republican congressional leaders as he pushed for funding for his border wall.

Trump will own any shutdown.

http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-rule-of-alienation-and-stability

3
Style

Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis of 2019?

Here are five ways things could get bad for everyone.

I expect the trigger to be more subtle.
An unknown unknown rather than these obvious problems.

China can declare a Jubelie.
Europe is having fun torturing people and nations with debt. 
Money is fiction at the sovereign scale.

4
Fashion

She Proposed That He Be Her Caddie. They’ve Worked to Avoid the Rough.

Jean Chua first asked Wesley Griswold to join her on the L.P.G.A. Tour, but he was not a pandering caddie, or boyfriend, and that didn’t always sit well.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

5
Business

Investors Have Nowhere to Hide as Stocks, Bonds and Commodities All Tumble

For the first time in decades, every major investment has fared poorly. The question is whether trouble in the markets will undermine economic growth.

The best market prediction is a guess.
The probabilities have a distribution but it is flatter than expected.

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

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Well

Why Is Children’s Masturbation Such a Secret?

Parents and children have questions, but there is surprisingly little guidance available in the pediatric literature.

I am not going to worry about masturbation.

Doing it in public is frowned on.

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Obituaries

Helen Klaben Kahn, Survivor of a 49-Day Yukon Ordeal, Dies at 76

She was a 20-year-old Brooklynite seeking adventure when her plane crashed. But she and the pilot, both injured, endured in subzero weather until rescued.

Adventures are where one finds them.

8
Opinion

Another Day in Brexit Hell

Pray for us.

The Tories did not hear the E.U. say "No Deal".

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U.S.

MS-13, Trump and America’s Stake in El Salvador’s Gang War

U.S. investment is guiding the fight to contain the violence in El Salvador, even as President Trump hurls insults and threatens to walk away.

Donald trump is not helping.

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Arts

Pete Davidson Is Largely Absent From ‘Saturday Night Live’

Davidson made only brief appearances in the final live show of 2018, hours after publishing an Instagram post that elicited concern about his safety and well-being.

I feel ill is not a proper response to comedy.

11
U.S.

Playing by His Own Rules, Trump Flips the Shutdown Script

The two parties typically try to avoid getting blamed for a government shutdown. President Trump says he’s happy to own one over a border wall.

Trump will own any shutdown.

12
Business

China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping

Car sales are falling. Housing is slow. Workers get three-month unpaid vacations. For Chinese leaders, pressure for a trade deal with President Trump is rising.

Blame Trump.

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Sports

Battling for the Denver Broncos, With Some Siblings in the Way

Beth Bowlen Wallace, Pat Bowlen’s daughter, says she is ready to take control of his N.F.L. franchise. The ailing owner’s trustees, who control the team, disagree.

Good luck.

#1 Connecticut Huskies (9-0)

Stats | Roster | Schedule

Schedule

DateOpponentTimeTVResult
11/11 vs. Ohio State 12:00 PM ET CBSS W 85 - 53
11/17 vs. Vanderbilt 6:00 PM ET  W 80 - 42
11/22 vs. Mississippi* 7:49 PM ET  W 90 - 50
11/23 vs. St. John's (NY)* 7:56 PM ET  W 65 - 55
11/24 vs. Purdue* 8:23 PM ET  W 86 - 40
11/28 vs.
16
DePaul
7:00 PM ET  W 99 - 63
12/2 at
1
Notre Dame
4:00 PM ET ESPN W 89 - 71
12/4 at Saint Louis 7:00 PM ET CBSS W 98 - 42
12/8 vs. Seton Hall 1:00 PM ET ESPN3 W 99 - 61
12/19 at Oklahoma 8:30 PM ET FS1 
12/22 at
13
California
3:00 PM ET PACN 

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Sports

Ada Hegerberg Would Prefer to Talk About Soccer

The best women’s soccer player in the world discusses her career, her crowning achievement and the controversy that overshadowed her big moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/football

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New York

Tabloid Publisher’s Deal in Hush-Money Inquiry Adds to Trump’s Danger

Prosecutors took a major step forward in their case that payouts to two women before the 2016 election violated campaign finance laws.

Yes.

16
New York

‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where N.Y. Fails Its Mentally Ill

A cutting-edge program to help severely mentally ill people live on their own has endangered people who were not ready, a new investigation shows.

Failure is always a risk.

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Style

Waco, Reborn

A home-makeover show based in this central Texas town has created a tourism boom.

I don't want to do that.

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U.S.

Trump’s Judicial Nominees Take Heat but Largely Keep Marching Through Senate

Some have been deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association, and others have proved racially divisive, but that hasn’t necessarily stopped them from reaching the bench.

"And the beat goes on"

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Style

Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked

I love Fido, but does he have to be on the bed while we have sex?

I am dog tolerant.

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U.S.

Ruling Striking Down Obamacare Moves Health Debate to Center Stage

A Texas judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional may not stand, but it will elevate health care as a pressing topic in a divided Washington.

The ruling could sink Trump.

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1
Style

Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis of 2019?


2
Opinion

Another Day in Brexit Hell

Pray for us. 

3
U.S.

Trump Threatens Shutdown in Combative Appearance With Democrats


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U.S.

MS-13, Trump and America’s Stake in El Salvador’s Gang War


5
Business

China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping


6
Technology

High-Tech Degrees and the Price of an Avocado: The Data New York Gave to Amazon

The city and state sent loads of data to Amazon during its search for a new headquarters, offering a peek into the valuable information the company collected during the process.

New York  could and did get the information.

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Fashion

She Proposed That He Be Her Caddie. They’ve Worked to Avoid the Rough.


Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

8
Sports

Battling for the Denver Broncos, With Some Siblings in the Way

Sports

Ada Hegerberg Would Prefer to Talk About Soccer


https://www.theguardian.com/football

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Style

Waco, Reborn


Building is cheaper than good updating.

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Opinion

The War on Truth Spreads

Democratically elected leaders borrow from the anti-press playbook of dictators and tyrants.

Yes.

12
Opinion

Surviving a Criminal Presidency

No one is above the law in America.

The nation must.

13
Opinion

Mr. Mayor, Why No Outrage Over a Mother’s Brutal Arrest?


All charges are dropped.

14
Style

Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked


I am dog tolerant.

15

Well

Why Is Children’s Masturbation Such a Secret?


Answer their questions.

16
Obituaries

Helen Klaben Kahn, Survivor of a 49-Day Yukon Ordeal, Dies at 76

Arts

Kimmel Says Trump’s Meeting With Democratic Leaders Felt Like ‘Real Housewives’

Jimmy Kimmel compared President Trump’s demanding a border wall to “a toddler threatening to keep screaming on the floor of Toys ‘R’ Us until Congress buys him a Hatchimal.”

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Arts

Pete Davidson Is Largely Absent From ‘Saturday Night Live’


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Davidson

He's not dead yet.

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Arts

Jimmy Fallon Makes Fun of Trump for Struggling to Replace John Kelly

“If anyone here wants to be President Trump’s chief of staff, just raise your hand and the job is yours,” Fallon told his audience.

Trump has a victim.

20
Opinion

Future Headlines About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

A sneak peek at the stories coming soon to a right-wing outlet near you.

I am not listening.

She is not convicted.

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