Ivanka Trump to Represent U.S. at Women's Empowerment Summit, Anti-Government Protests in Russia, 'Constitutional Carry' in North Dakota: A.M. Links

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  Ivanka Trump will represent the U.S. at a women's empowerment summit in Berlin next month.

• Thousands of people across Russia turned out for anti-government protests, with hundreds arrested in Moscow.
• British authorities want WhatsApp, which the Westminster attacker allegedly used shortly before his rampage, and other encrypted services to share information with them.
• Prosecutors in South Korea are seeking an arrest warrant for Park Guen-Hye, the country's first democratically elected president to be removed from office.
• Evangelical churches are booming in Cuba.
• "Constitutional carry" is now the law in North Dakota, with any resident who's had a driver's license or other state ID for at least a year permitted to carry a concealed handgun.
• Uber is suspending its self-driving program after a self-driving car in Arizona flipped over during an accident for which it was not at fault and in which no one was injured.
• Shaquille O'Neal gets a statue outside the Staples Center.

Comments

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Citizen X - #6]

No, Rufus, too soon!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I was hoping his would be the sole comment this morning.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Too Soon was my nickname in college.

[gaoxiaen]

I thought it was "No, Rufus".

[But Enough About Me]

Huh. Small world.

[Citizen X - #6]

Shaquille O'Neal gets a statue outside the Staples Center.

It's dunking on the Statue of Liberty.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ivanka Trump will represent the U.S. at a women's empowerment summit in Berlin next month.

Which I can only imagine will go over very well in certain circles.

[Citizen X - #6]

Reason web-biscuits: FIX THE FUCKING COMMENTS, GODDAMN.

[Citizen X - #6]

Or, if emptying out the comments section was a condition of Postrel's return, at least let us know.

[$park? leftist poser]

It's kinda sad, but at some point you have to believe that it stays this way because they want it this way. Or they don't really care enough about it.

I wouldn't be surprised at this point if they announce that they're switching comments to Twitter and Facebook.

[Citizen X - #6]

[vomits]

[Rhywun]

I want a refund if this is what the donation drive was for.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

I will not be silenced!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Thousands of people across Russia turned out for anti-government protests, with hundreds arrested in Moscow.

In America, people turn out for anti-Russia protests.

[Fist of Etiquette]

British authorities want WhatsApp, which the Westminster attacker allegedly used shortly before his rampage, and other encrypted services to share information with them.

Which will drive them out of business, which is okay too.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Shaquille O'Neal gets a statue outside the Staples Center.

Hopefully they put it on flat ground so it won't topple over.

[Citizen X - #6]

The statue probably makes more free throws than the real guy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prosecutors in South Korea are seeking an arrest warrant for Park Guen-Hye, the country's first democratically elected president to be removed from office.

A shining example for the United States.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Constitutional carry" is now the law in North Dakota, with any resident who's had a driver's license or other state ID for at least a year permitted to carry a concealed handgun.

That's not fair. No one even lives in North Dakota.

[LarryA]

OTOH we now have half-again as many states, 12, with unlicensed concealed carry, as we have states that restrict licenses (8) with "discretionary" practices.

Mainstream Media will notice this Any Day Now.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Rising teacher pay drives cost of mid-Hudson education

Fueled in large part by union contracts with built-in pay boosts, nearly one in four mid-Hudson school teachers and administrators were paid $100,000 or more in 2015-16.

At roughly the same time, student enrollment in the region dropped from a peak of about 105,000 in 2007-2008 to fewer than 92,000 in 2015-16.

In the 2005-06 school year, the cost of educating a student in the mid-Hudson was $17,270. In 2015-16, it came in at $29,798. That's an increase of 72.5 percent in a decade.

[bartzman86]

If you just read the headline and these bullet points, you would think this was an article critiquing crazy costs. But from what I read it seems to be a piece promoting unionized labor, and all of its virtues.

[Rhywun]

Seems pretty balanced to me if you read the whole thing.

[bartzman86]

Did you think so? Fair enough then, I'll have to read it again and focus less on the quotes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Uber is suspending its self-driving program after a self-driving car in Arizona flipped over during an accident for which it was not at fault and in which no one was injured.

The Uber was unter.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

The most important story in the world: You CAN wear leggings on our planes: Now United says teens were turned away from flight because they were flying on an employee pass which has a dress code

Initially, the airline said that gate agents had the right to refuse passengers from boarding a flight if they are not properly clothed.

But now they are saying that the reason the two girls were barred from the plane was because they were flying free as guests of an employee, which requires a dress code.

'There are different rules for these privileges because people are flying for free,' the company said in a statemen

[Rufus The Monocled]

This place reminds me of an empty room inhabited by one coughing monkey.

[Citizen X - #6]

WELL THEN IT'S NOT EMPTY, IS IT.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Adventures in Comics and the Real World

America Chavez, a Latina and lesbian superhero, saves an alien planet, enrolls at Sotomayor University and punches Adolf Hitler in the first issue of her new Marvel comic book series. But what's being celebrated as most fantastic in this comic is that Gabby Rivera, a young-adult author who is gay and Latina herself, is writing the adventures of America.

[Citizen X - #6]

Does every superhero need to, at some point, go back in time and punch Hitler? I'm starting to think that maybe there's a reason he was such a dick.

[Fist of Etiquette]

But what's being celebrated as most fantastic in this comic is that Gabby Rivera, a young-adult author who is gay and Latina herself, is writing the adventures of America.

Fantastic would be if she was writing the adventures of a black, white or Asian, straight, male hero.

[Rhywun]

OMG a superhero just like me!

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

The coolest part about narcissism is me!

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

If there was a superhero just like me when I was younger I wouldn't have become the man I am today.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Veteran newsman Ted Koppel tells Sean Hannity he's bad for America

In a tense exchange on CBS Sunday Morning, Koppel told the Fox News host and staunch supporter of President Trump that his brand of opinion-based journalism was harming the country.

"I am cynical," Koppel responded.

"Do you think we're bad for America? You think I'm bad for America?" Hannity asked.

Koppel didn't miss a beat. "Yeah," he said, and continued over multiple interruptions from Hannity:

Koppel: "In the long haul I think you and all these opinion shows ?"

Hannity: "Really? That's sad, Ted. That's sad."

Koppel: "No, you know why? Because you're very good at what you do, and because you have attracted a significantly more influential ?"

Hannity: "You are selling the American people short."

Koppel: "No, let me finish the sentence before you do that."

Hannity: "I'm listening. With all due respect. Take the floor."

Koppel: "You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts."

[Citizen X - #6]

Ted Koppel is still alive? I thought his head collapsed under its own weight years ago.

[$park? leftist poser]

Koppel: "You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts."

Is such a thing even possible?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Lena Dunham got her eyebrows tattooed and you can watch the entire thing

Lena describes her natural brows as "thin and pale, roughly the color of roadkill, with random hairs sprouting where they might, creating the effect of a sparse forehead rug."

"Someone told me my brows were not on fleek," Dunham said. "And I thought about it for like six days." That's when Lena decided to get into microblading.

[$park? leftist poser]

I thought we weren't supposed to notice how she looks.

[Mazakon]

We Need to Talk About Abolishing the National Weather Service

I live in Washington, D.C. If you listened to what the National Weather Service was saying, you'll know that I survived a giant snowstorm on March 13 and 14. Except there was no giant snowstorm.

I'm not just saying that because I'm from Ohio and spent four years in the snow belt. Snow began falling on Monday. That afternoon, weather models were forecasting that the storm would be closer to the coast than previously expected. In other words, there wouldn't be as much snow as the NWS had predicted.

Nonetheless, the NWS decided to stick with their original model. For New York, they predicted 18 to 24 inches of snow.

[$park? leftist poser]

Some humans failed to predict the future, other humans visibly upset.

[Rhywun]

Shaquille O'Neal gets a statue outside the Staples Center.

I didn't know he played hockey.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Last! Do I get a goodbye from Rufus?