#Mets, Nationals put fans through never-ending introductions

#Mets, Nationals put fans through never-ending introductions

“Mets, Nationals put fans through never-ending introductions” Had it been a scripted parody of the excesses within Major League Baseball, it couldn’t have been funnier.  As seen, if not believed, Thursday night on SNY, the opening game rosters of the Mets and Nationals were introduced, and players and coaches lined up along the first-base and…

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#Mother of addict slams San Francisco open-air drug policies

#Mother of addict slams San Francisco open-air drug policies

“Mother of addict slams San Francisco open-air drug policies” When her son Corey was 7 years old, Jacqui Berlinn accidentally dropped a piggy bank on her big toe. “I almost threw up from the pain,” recalled Berlinn, co-founder of Mothers Against Drug Deaths (MADD), a San Francisco-based activist group. “Corey was right there holding me…

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#These American reporters covered Europe between world wars

#These American reporters covered Europe between world wars

“These American reporters covered Europe between world wars” In the early 1920s, American newspapers were just beginning to hire Americans as foreign correspondents. They had had them in wartime — almost always men who made their names reporting from far-away battlefields — but not during other times, when they tended to rely on wire services like…

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#Posting bad tweets shouldn’t ruin lives

#Posting bad tweets shouldn’t ruin lives

“Posting bad tweets shouldn’t ruin lives” “Shut up.” That’s the response, cleaned up for publication, that I got from students at the University of California Hastings College of Law when I tried to speak there on March 1. They prevented the event from taking place, chanting and banging as if it were Occupy Wall Street….

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#What I learned from taking on my own internet trolls

#What I learned from taking on my own internet trolls

“What I learned from taking on my own internet trolls” Before Dylan Marron became a writer on “Ted Lasso,” he produced provocative shows about social issues for Seriously.TV, including a Web series called “Sitting in Bathrooms With Trans People,” which consisted of him interviewing transgender people in restrooms. Not everyone loved his left-leaning videos, including a viewer…

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