Hackers did an intentionally incompetent scientific study , then used the real (but random) results to "prove" to mass media that chocolate helps people lose weight.

Landlords are driving the quirky unique stores out of the West Village in New York City, by raising their rents.

The landlords would rather have the store stay empty for many years, hoping to land the jackpot of a super-chic store. The result, ironically, is to eliminate what made the neighborhood desirable in the first place.

Bohemians can find another place to live, but it will probably be at the end of a painfully long subway ride followed by a bus ride or two.

A UK thug has been sentenced to prison for attacking a student protester.

Many other thugs did likewise but have not been charged.

I would not believe any accusations that thugs make against protesters. A thug is simply not a trustworthy witness.

"Go to any predominantly minority neighborhood in any major American city and you'll hear the same stories: decades of being sworn at, thrown against walls, kicked, searched without cause, stripped naked on busy city streets, threatened with visits from child protective services, chased by dogs, and arrested and jailed not merely on false pretenses, but for reasons that often don't even rise to the level of being stupid."

The fraction that get killed by thugs are the tip of the iceberg, but they keep civil rights defenders busy; millions of attacks and arrests of black citizens who can't do anything about it.

It starts with racist policies in thug departments, covered by the figleaf of "stop and frisk" policies, continues through systematic false accusations by thugs, and they bury complaints as a condition of dropping the false charges.

The CIA punished one of its interrogators for cooperating with an internal probe of CIA torture.