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Justice Antonin Scalia said on CNN that the Supreme Court’s bitterly divided decision upholding President Obama’s health care law had not led to a falling out with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/us/politics/justice-scalia-says-he-had-no-falling-out-with-chief-justice-roberts.html
In an interview, George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin, apologized to Mr. Martin’s parents but said he did not regret his actions.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/us/zimmerman-says-no-regret-for-actions-in-trayvon-martin-shooting.html
Kfc parent Yum Brands reported quarterly profit that missed Wall Street’s view amid worries about China, its top market, where economic growth has cooled to a three-year low, and its shares fell 1.5 percent to $64.54 in extended trading yesterday.
Still, the company’s enviable 10 percent…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/not_so_yummy_3xfZ2IotwnQTykHd9ZFrIL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Business
@KateNocera: ok ok i’ll watch. RT @piersmorgan: Abortion, death penalty, condoms, marriage and guilty pleasures – Scalia opens up as never before.
@kashhill: Sen. Al Franken Grills Facebook and the FBI Over Their Use Of Facial Recognition Technology http://t.co/Isf8zlBb
@mollyesque: 90 percent of New Mexico voters think Mitt Romney is younger than he actually is (65). http://t.co/8zdkmmfI (p3)
It’s been a very long time since WikiLeaks was in the news for anything other than Julian Assange’s drawn-out extradition battle (he’s still waiting on Ecuador, chilling at their embassy), but another constant has been its cash woes. The group blames the money issues on an “unlawful financial blockade” by Visa and Mastercard, and decided last year to “temporarily suspend its publishing operations” to focus on fund-raising. More than six months later, the whistle-blowing site has reopened its donation system through a French company, but things are getting dire.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that WikiLeaks managed to spend in the neighborhood of $300,000 in the first half of 2012, but took in just about $40,000 in donations, leaving their cash reserves somewhere around $100,000. That will all be gone “within a few months,” the site said, unless faithful souls deliver “a minimum of €1 million immediately” so that WikiLeaks can “effectively continue its mission.” Good luck with that — maybe throw in a tote bag?
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via Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/wikileaks-almost-entirely-out-of-money.html
Marissa Mayer has only been CEO at Yahoo! for a day and she’s already creating viral content like a stop motion Lego version of The Wire. Imagine what we’ll get when she’s been there a week.
Audible guffaws at, “What’s up his ass?” “No one likes our season, that’s what.” (via @jonahkeri)
Tags: Legos  The Wire  TV  video
via kottke.org http://kottke.org/12/07/the-lego-wire
The closet’s corrosive effects are alive and well in China, where an estimated 70% of gay men marry women to satisfy parental expectations. While most of these marriages involve unwitting straight women, some of them are consensual, often conducted via a gay men-lesbian matchmaking site with some 153,000 members. The personal account of one of such couple:
Zhuang Xiang, a 30-year-old accountant from Shanghai, came to understand why he was drawn to boys when he was 17. On flicking through a gay comic book in a shop, he had his great “a-ha!” moment. He met his boyfriend in 2004. And then he married his lesbian wife in 2009. He and his wife don’t live together, but they visit each other’s parents once a week. Mr Zhuang even keeps some of her clothes on display at home, in case of unannounced visitors.
Mr Zhuang says he is lucky to live in a big city like Shanghai, where such a solution is possible. But he wants to live in a country where gay men are accepted. His parents have started to talk about a grandchild. Mr Zhuang and his lesbian wife will likely get a forged certificate of infertility. Keeping up the appearance of their marriage feels like a never-ending battle, he says. But sometimes lies are more sensible than the truth.
The Dish noted the practice awhile back.
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/chinas-faux-marriage-epidemic.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29