"Instead of simply gazing open-mouthed at the power of those among us who operate the death stars, we need to decide what that power should be aiming to achieve."
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"The military has taken a dim view of its members engaging in racy pursuits. Air force staff sergeant Michelle Manhart, a training instructor, was reprimanded and demoted after she posed nude for Playboy in 2007. The navy discharged or otherwise disciplined about a dozen servicemen and servicewomen in 1980, for posing in Playboy or Playgirl."
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The medical supply company McKesson has become the first private company in US legal history to sue a death penalty state for the misuse of its products in executions. Its unprecedented action has succeeded – for now – in frustrating the ambition of the Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, to stage what critics have called a “conveyor belt” of death.
In February the zoo achieved momentary fame after YouTube abruptly cut the live stream when what the zoo called “animal rights extremists” alleged a violation of the website’s “nudity and sexual content” policy.
"Humans are ridiculous. We’re all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it’s optimistic, because you can shoot for the moon and know you’re never going to get there, and that’s OK."
"Whether British citizens will retain their right to freedom of movement after Brexit is still unclear, but Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator, has said he will try to persuade EU leaders for that to be the case."
"I don’t even care if the guy was belligerent, what the public saw was him dripping blood, trapped in an enclosed space mumbling that he wanted to go home. Flying has become increasingly unpleasant and this is more than a PR crisis, this amounts to anti-branding."
At least 20 people have been killed in what is believed to have been a suicide car bomb attack targeting a convoy of evacuees waiting to enter Aleppo, according to reports.
"Rattling sabres is a particularly dangerous thing to do on the Korean peninsula. While the repercussions from a missile strike in Syria or the dropping of a giant bomb in Afghanistan can be contained, a preventative strike on North Korea could set off a chain reaction."
In February the zoo achieved momentary fame after YouTube cut the live stream when what the zoo called “animal rights extremists” alleged a violation of the website’s “nudity and sexual content” policy.
"In a study by the advocacy group GLAAD of American TV between 2016-2017, a record number of 278 LGBT characters were identified in TV shows. What was particularly poignant about the study was not just the swelling numbers, but the broadening range of characters on the LGBT sexuality/gender spectrum. TV’s rainbow diversity initiative appeared to be inching closer to its pot of gold."
"If ITV’s The Nightly Show, in which a series of well-known television hosts watch their careers go down the khazi over five days, proves anything, it’s that as surely as Americans will struggle to make a decent cup of tea, we will never master their late-night talkshow format."