E.M. Forster: Howard’s End
Reader Submission: Title by Angela Lucera.
Protests in Greece. Greek Orthodox priest attempts to dissuade protester from throwing a Molotov cocktail at police.
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Strapped for cash, Topeka, Kansas considers decriminalizing domestic violence
The Topeka City Council will decide next week whether to essentially legalize domestic violence in the Kansas capital, in a budgetary game of chicken with Shawnee County, which encompasses Topeka. The fight started when Shawnee District Attorney Chad Taylor, facing a 10 percent budget cut for next year, announced Sept. 8 that his office would no longer prosecute misdemeanor cases, including those involving domestic violence, inside Topeka city limits. The City Council is betting that if it strikes Topeka’s ordinance against domestic battery, it will force Taylor to reconsider.
Taylor has rejected at least 30 domestic violence cases since Sept. 8, and the 18 people arrested in Topeka for domestic battery have all been released from county jail because no charges were filed.
Today in things that perhaps shouldn’t be on the table.
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WSJ: Friendly's Preparing Bankruptcy Filing
“Friendly Ice Cream Corp., which employs roughly 10,000 people and operates more than 500 restaurants known for sundaes and hamburgers, could seek protection from creditors as soon as next week, the people said. The Wilbraham, Mass.-based company would then try to sell itself through a bankruptcy auction, the people said.”
Given the paramount quality of their food and Fribble, I’m shocked. SHOCKED.
Boston Herald: President’s illegal uncle giggles in court
OH NO HE DIDN’T. Also, he should have applied for legal uncleship. No amnesty for uncles!
So. We have the "best healthcare in the world," GOP? But 84,000 people die of preventable disease between every time we have the World Series?
A study supported by the Commonwealth Fund, which specializes in comparisons of health care across country “measures preventable deaths, which is a pretty good proxy for the quality of a nation’s health care system. And how did the U.S. rank among 16 high-income, industrialized nations? Last. Yes, you read that right. Last.”
Global Warming: Why Americans Are In Denial (AP)
A good, brief history of how we got where we are, and where we’re not, on globe warming.
Police say homeless men prevented arson
Homeless people are good people too.
