Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is Year in review, part one:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos …
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There's no such thing as 100 percent safe. By pretending there is, GOP makes things more dangerous, by Ian Reifowitz
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The most vulnerable House members in 2016, in two charts, by David Jarman
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Republican candidates, lost in 'The Wilderness', by Susan Grigsby
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Land of the free, home of the fearful, by Mark E Andersen
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GOP Debate, lies, and media fraud, by Egberto Willies
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Why isn't it 'terrorism' when the perpetrators aren't Muslim? by Frank Vyan Walton
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War Crimes R Us, by Jon Perr
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Fight back against the rising Islamophobia in America, by Denise Oliver Velez
• Whoops!
Surrender For one brief, shining moment on Sunday night in Las Vegas, Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez Arévalo, was crowned Miss Universe.
And then the pageant’s host, Steve Harvey, realized that he had misread the card on which the winners were listed.
It was a gaffe made for the age of Twitter, GIFs, Vines and 24/7 social media snark. Almost as soon as the mistake was made, it was memed.
Mr. Harvey did not realize his mistake until after Ms. Gutiérrez had begun to soak up the glory of the title.
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens brings in record $$ in opening weekend: The film made $247 million in North America, and a worldwide total of $525 million over the weekend. And it doesn’t even open in China, the world’s second largest film market, until Jan. 9. But movie houses aren’t where the real money comes from in the Star Wars brand. Merchandising for the previous films in the series has totaled more than $4 billion for tickets to the movies and $28 billion for merchandise. Expectations are that the current entry will add $5 billion to the total. That’s more than the gross domestic product of Bolivia.
• Watch Canada’s Lennox island eaten away by sea-level rise as aboriginal residents discuss their loss:
“When I first came to live here, we had the children out playing baseball in the front yard,” said David Haley, a property manager who lives on the island, in the clip. “They can’t do that anymore. That land is gone.”
• Norway moves border 20 meters to the west so Finland can have a mountain.
• Harvard linguist reveals which words are most misused: Steven Pinker’s new book The Sense of Style includes 58 such words, among them:
8. Disinterested means "unbiased." It does not mean "uninterested." Correct: "The dispute should be resolved by a disinterested judge." / "Why are you so uninterested in my story?" [...]
17. Simplistic means "naively or overly simple." It does not mean "simple" or "pleasingly simple." Correct: "His simplistic answer suggested he wasn't familiar with the material." / "She liked the chair's simple look." [...]
20. Lie (intransitive: lies, lay, has lain) means to "recline"; lay (transitive: lays, laid, has laid) means to "set down"; lie (intransitive: lies, lied, has lied) means to "fib." Correct: "He lies on the couch all day." / "He lays a book upon the table." / "He lies about what he does."
• Native actors explain why they walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s Ridiculous Six Netflix movie:
Four of the Native actors who walked off the production of Adam Sandler’s Ridiculous Six movie earlier this year appear in a video created by Indigenous filmmaker Roj Rodriguez (Mexican American). who was also the creator of the NCAI’s “Proud to Be” video.
The video, entitled “Respect Our Culture, Respect Our Dignity,” opens with the written statement, “On April 22, 2015, a group of Native American actors walked off the set of a Netflix movie production that misrepresented their culture.” The video then shows several of the Native actors talking about that day.
• Anti-Muslim sentiment playing out in schools across America, mostly with words, but sometimes with violence.
• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, critical Miss Universe news! Plus our regular 2016 news roundup, featuring Greg Dworkin & Armando on the DNC, the debate & the data breach. It might be important after all! Commercial flights to Cuba are in our future. ISIS: it’s weird.
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