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A journalist at the University of Missouri was challenged and physically blocked from filming protests at the school. The man was met with chants saying, “Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go!” (YouTube/Mark Schierbecker) Video of a confrontation between a news photographer and protesters at the University of Missouri on Monday led to…
photo by FreeImages.com/Martina – I know why you’re here. Something has happened that has pushed you over the edge. You know, with regards to “political correctness.” Or “call-out culture,” or the “Internet outrage machine,” or whatever you want to call it. It’s been a lot of little things up until now — you know, comments that you’ve…
A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression. He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered by health insurance hitting record highs, the doom-and-gloom predictions…
Goldman Sachs seems worried about bond-market liquidity. In a note to clients Tuesday, Charles Himmelberg and Chris Henson at Goldman Sachs dissect the recent decline in dealer inventories of investment-grade corporate bonds. This sounds arcane and boring, but their analysis is one of the most important and troubling things we’ve read about bond-market liquidity. Now,…
Melissa Click, a mass media professor at the University of Missouri, is seen pushing a student journalist’s camera and asking “for some muscle” during demonstrations on campus on Nov. 9. (Youtube/Mark Schierbecker) Melissa Click, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri who was captured on video Monday aggressively confronting a journalism student covering a…
eldelfraval/flickrA police officer in Chicago was charged today with a felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm, nearly a year after the alleged incident, where the officer, John Gorman, off-duty and allegedly drunk, shot at a local off-duty officer in Merrionette Park, Illinois, and the driver of the pick-up truck the Marionette officer was…
What’s the best way to hide your illegally-built castle? Behind hay bales, of course. And what’s the best way to keep the council from knocking it down? Say it’s got bats in it! These are the lessons we have learned from Robert Fidler, who is in the process of doing just that with a property…
google_ad_section_start (Universal) Generally, 2015 has been an incredible year for Universal. It’s responsible for three of the top five earners in the country: “Jurassic World,” “Furious 7,” and “Minions.” But no one is bulletproof in Hollywood, and that’s evident with one of the studio’s most recent releases. “Jem and the Holograms,” the movie reboot of the…
The plight of the single New Yorker View Full Caption MANHATTAN — If you’re planning to live alone and rent a one-bedroom in Manhattan, you’ll have to earn roughly $130,800 a year. That’s 40 times the amount of September’s median monthly asking rent, which was a record $3,271, according to real estate search…
Source: Most of the material from this comic came from this book It’s going to be okay. – The Oatmeal.