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Dangerous Finds: Cat poop makes you crazy; Manhunt for teen ‘Bonnie & Clyde’; Hillary guts Bush
06.05.2015
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Dangerous Finds: Cat poop makes you crazy; Manhunt for teen ‘Bonnie & Clyde’; Hillary guts Bush


 
Teenage ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ wanted on charges including robbery and aggravated assault on a police officer: Ohio teens Tristan Kindle, 16, and Rose May, 15,  may be in possession of two firearms and have stolen several vehicles. The pair have escaped a twelve-hour manhunt in PA. (ABC News)

Hillary Goes Right for Bush’s Gut in Voting Rights Speech “And in Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state officials conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election of 2000.” Yeah, she went there. (Esquire)

Fox News freakshow heros: Roger Ailes is going to an ever-loonier fringe to find supposed culture-war martyrs—and it’s not working. (Salon)

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy: “Toxoplasma might even kill as many people as malaria, or at least a million people a year.” What’s less clear is how you treat it if you’re already infected. (The Atlantic)

Economic growth more likely when wealth distributed to poor instead of rich: The economic case for maintaining a progressive income tax structure and targeting welfare payments to those most in need is overwhelming. If people on lower incomes have more money, there will be more spending, more jobs and a stronger economy. (Guardian)

Nearly half of all households age 55 and over have no retirement savings: Many older households don’t have other financial resources to tap during retirement. Of those households without any savings, more than half don’t have a pension from a traditional pension plan, and almost half don’t own a home. (CBS News)

Obama under pressure to release secret pages of 9/11 report ‘showing Saudi Arabia financed attacks’ A long running campaign over redacted pages of a Senate report into 9/11 which allegedly reveal Riyadh as the principal financier is gathering new momentum. Bush had report redacted. (Telegraph)

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes: Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures. (Pro Publica)

The death of Dee Dee Ramone: Julian Cope writes: “What can we do but kneel at the grave of this hoodlum culture hero and give thanks to him for stealing rock’n’roll back from the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and all the other ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ 70s Laurel Canyon clowns…” (On This Deity)

Japanese firm sells ‘human pillow’ cellphone holder: What’s shaped like your friend and even sounds like your friend, but isn’t actually your friend? (Yahoo News)

School bus driver in deadly crash was texting: A Tennessee school bus driver was texting at the time of a crash that killed two young girls and an aspiring teacher last year, accident investigators said Friday. (Associated Press)

Bernie Sanders for the well-intentioned, semi-informed layperson

Want a preview of how a debate between Bernie Sanders and one of the GOP candidates might go? Watch Bernie face off against Papa Bear back in March:

Posted by Richard Metzger
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