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A liar and a moron
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staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey,
did you read:
• That Ben Carson
was never offered a scholarship to West Point Academy, nor did he ever apply there?
—Tal Rosenberg
• About actual, knowledgeable
archeologists explaining to Ben Carson that, no, Joseph didn't build the pyramids to hold grain? (For one thing, they aren't hollow.)
—Tony Adler
• About
Canada's new Sikh defense chief, a combat veteran who fought in Afghanistan?
—Michael Miner
• That Liverpool, England, just
opened some fast-walking pedestrian lanes to nudge tourists and slow pokes to one side of the pavement? (Alas, 'tis but a marketing stunt.)
—Ryan Smith
• About the
"untold history" of black and Asian actors performing Shakespeare in the UK?
—Tony Adler
• About the man who is carving his 20-year prison diary onto the surfaces of
ostrich eggshells?
—Aimee Levitt
• How a start-up, backed by Disney, will help control
family screen time?
—Sue Kwong
• That Bruce Willis is one of a bunch of big-name actors who get
electronic line feeds on Broadway?
—Tony Adler
• Stephen Thomas Erlewine on Van Morrison's
Astral Weeks?
—Tal Rosenberg
• The Tumblr
Shit People Say to Women Directors (& Other Women in Film)?
—Kate Schmidt