Today’s comic by Tom Tomorrow is, Meanwhile, on Parallel Earth:
What you missed on Sunday Kos:
- It's the Obama boom. Don't let Trump forget it, by Ian Reifowitz
- How to change the system we have (given the system we have), by David Akadjian
- You don't want us to talk about climate change? Okay, then how about guns, by Susan Grigsby
- Now is the time to transition from Obamacare to single-payer Medicare for All, by Egberto Willies
- Racism and injustice 'Down Under,' by Denise Oliver Velez
- Media still don't get 'What Happened' to Hillary Clinton in 2016 election, by Sher Watts Spooner
- State block grants: The GOP's worst health care idea of them all, by Jon Perr
- Why is it so hard to get people to vote, by Mark E Andersen
- New NASA director comes with pluses and minuses, by DarkSyde
Hurricane building codes seem to work:
As homeowners in Florida begin to take stock of the damage from Irma, one pattern is beginning to emerge: homes that were built to the stricter building codes seem to have fared better. [...]
Bill Wheat, executive vice president and chief financial officer at home-building giant D.R. Horton Inc., said his company’s early assessments “indicate that the more recent building standards post-Andrew over the last 20 years have held up relatively well.”
From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.
But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation.
And so, after a half-century reign that propelled him into the realm of the rock stars and celebrities who graced his covers, Mr. Wenner is putting his company’s controlling stake in Rolling Stone up for sale, relinquishing his hold on a publication he has led since its founding.
Seems more probable than possible:
The US Department of Justice has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into three top Equifax officials for possible insider trading, two sources tell Bloomberg.
The three officials—Chief Financial Officer John Gamble, President of U.S. Information Solutions Joseph Loughran, and President of Workforce Solutions Rodolfo Ploder—collectively sold nearly $1.8 million worth of Equifax stock days after the credit rating agency discovered a massive cyber-breach. The sale occurred about a month before the company publicly announced that there had been a major hack, potentially revealing information—including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and credit card numbers—for up to 143 million people. Equifax has previously claimed that the three officials “had no knowledge that an intrusion had occurred at the time” they dumped their stocks.
You may have never heard of him, but you should have:
Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war. [...]
Computers warned that five Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched from an American base. [...]
The alarm sounded during one of the tensest periods in the Cold War. Three weeks earlier, the Soviets had shot down a Korean Air Lines commercial flight after it crossed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people on board, including a congressman from Georgia. President Ronald Reagan had rejected calls for freezing the arms race, declaring the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” The Soviet leader, Yuri V. Andropov, was obsessed by fears of an American attack. [...]
After five nerve-racking minutes — electronic maps and screens were flashing as he held a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other, trying to absorb streams of incoming information — Colonel Petrov decided that the launch reports were probably a false alarm. [...]
Colonel Petrov died at 77 on May 19 in Fryazino, a Moscow suburb, where he lived alone on a pension. At the time, his death was not widely reported.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Zombie Trumpcare’s back. Trump-Russiaat “get a warrant” level, as the lawyers blab. Was Spicer just normalized? Or sheet caked? Milo’s Berkeley “event” is a hoax. Welcome to Dystopia: organ harvesting edition. Help! ZOMG! Our monuments! Our history!