As it turns out he is also a very good writer and reader of his work. His voice and accent remind me of the readers of the various John Grisham books I have listened to on tape.

 The book is a combination memoir and excerpts from his prison journals. He writes about his extremely impoverished childhood in a very matter of fact yet moving way. Such stories....in particular, one of his only escapes as a child was to read horror stories, so even as a pre-teen he was devouring Stephen King and Dean Koontz books that he could get from the little library, reading them multiple times. The thought that this only pleasure of a child living in extreme poverty was later used against him to put him in prison for a crime he did not commit is just heartbreaking.

I'm only to about his 7th grade or so years and he has already been moved more times than I can count, each living situation more horrible than the last.

Here is the worst thing that has ever happened. It is a completely sincere pro-Trump rap video. If you watch it you will develop eyeball scabs and pray for the sweet release of death.

See this NY Times article entitled: "Die-Hard Bernie Sanders Backers See F.B.I. as Answer to Their Prayers"

They have sent a letter demanding Barney Frank and others be removed from their positions at the convention or they wil blow it up.   Grind it to a halt.  Prevent them from nominating anyone.  

Maddow is saying they got this letter exclusively.  I can't find a link.  

She doesn't stop there.  Discussing threats and harassment of officials I'm Wyoming.  Slashed tires.  Home addresses posted on Facebook.

As Joan Wals adds as an afterthought to this:

The Hyde revelation [alleging that former Republican Rep. Henry Hyde leading the effort to impeach Bill Clinton, had himself a years-long extramarital affair] also served as a success story for Salon's publishing model. The concept of an online magazine had been somewhat of a novelty in 1995, but the impact of the Hyde story was so deafening it changed how people thought about the possibilities of publishing on the web.

"It taught us that ... the web rewarded quickness, the web rewarded saying something that other people were not saying," Walsh said. "The web also rewarded speed."

After a beat, she added: "At that time, the web rewarded reporting as well. I used to make the case that it's still like that, but I'm not sure I feel that way anymore."

Or as former Salon-writer Andrew Leonard says:

"The low point arrived when my editor G-chatted me with the observation that our traffic figures were lagging that day and ordered me to `publish something within the hour,'" Andrew Leonard, who left Salon in 2014, recalled in a post. "Which, translated into my new reality, meant `Go troll Twitter for something to get mad about -- Uber, or Mark Zuckerberg, or Tea Party Republicans -- and then produce a rant about it.' ... I performed my duty, but not without thinking, `Is this what 25 years as a dedicated reporter have led to?' That's when it dawned on me: I was no longer inventing the future. I was a victim of it. So I quit my job to keep my sanity."

The rumour of Salon's death has for years been greatly exaggerated ... but maybe not for long anymore?

In 2005, on Salon's 10th anniversary, Talbot described the mass of media predictions about Salon's impending demise as a "gleeful death watch." Lauerman remembers going-out-of-business stories predicting Salon's closure "going back to 2001."

So in some ways, Salon has beaten the odds simply by surviving this long. But to others, the true Salon was lost once it stopped publishing the types of stories that once made it so well-regarded.

And whether Salon survives or not, this is really a shame:

Some of the high-impact reports, essays and reviews from the site's glory years are lost behind a tangled mess of broken links and deteriorating web pages. Older stories can be nearly impossible to find.

Echo chamber (media)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In media, an echo chamber is a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an "enclosed" system, where different or competing views are censored, disallowed, or otherwise underrepresented.

get that nimrods?  do i need to use smaller words?  maybe?
where different or competing views are censored, disallowed, or otherwise underrepresented.

 do you get it?

it if was an echo chamber you would not be whining, in groups fer god sake, because your dumbass views are NOT censored disallowed or god freakin knows underrepresented.

OK.

It's like the shine wore off and the idea of Trump and the nuclear trigger has begun to sink in.  Several family members are rethinking.  And I recently talked to a couple of "liberal" supporters who seem to be beginning to squirm.

One nephew said something like this today "you know, I thought he would start acting more serious.  And he's just not doing it"

Donald Trump himself doesn't own the Toronto tower -- it belongs to Talon Developments, which licensed the Trump brand for the skyscraper, and hired a Trump-owned company to run the property.

Talon's clients are "no longer interested in the Trump brand" because Trump himself has damaged it, company lawyer Symon Zucker said.

"It's more important for him to be president than run a successful business," Zucker told the Toronto Star last month.

Of course animal rights activist and others are outraged...

Many are angry the endangered gorilla was put down. Others want the boy's mother to face child endangerment charges, CBS News' Jamie Yuccas reported.

Facebook pages like "Justice for Harambe" are quickly spreading. The Facebook page currently has more than 11,000 likes.

I just don't see what alternative they had? Tranquilizers take too long and might have agitated the gorilla.  Maybe they could have a special enclosed area you open up and throw some food in and then close when the animal enters?... but there were other gorillas in the area as well.

Maybe it's time to revisit the debate over zoos in general.  I can see an argument for wild animal habit parks but zoos seem inhumane.