Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:55 PM ET, November 7, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
We Live In a World Gone Mad, Yale Edition  —  The Daily Mail recounts one of the strangest controversies we've seen in a while.  It relates to offensive Halloween costumes at Yale.  Or rather, the potential for offensive Halloween costumes.  —  The story starts with the wife of Nicholas Christakis …
Discussion: Roger's Rules and Yale Daily News
RELATED:
Haley Hudler / FIRE:
Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email  —  Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus.  —  Students called for the resignation of Associate Master …
Ollie Gillman For / Daily Mail:
The moment Yale students encircled and shouted down professor who told them to just ‘look away’ if they were offended by Halloween costumes  — Dozens of Yale students encircled a professor after he said he would not stop people from wearing offensive Halloween costumes
Jencey Paz / yaleherald.com:   Hurt at home … As a Silimander, I feel that my home is being threatened.
Yale Daily News:
Students confront Christakis about Halloween email
Discussion: Business Insider
Anomaly / freakoutnation.com:
Woman Smashes Muslim In The Face With Beer Mug In Applebee's For Not Speaking English  —  A Minnesota woman is charged with assault for allegedly smashing a beer mug across another patron's face at a local Applebee's because the victim wasn't speaking English.
Discussion: Liberaland, theGrio, KARE-TV and Raw Story
Marc Caputo / Politico:
New Rubio credit-card data show less spending  —  Marco Rubio must have something to hide.  There was a reason the presidential candidate wasn't letting people see his long-secret Republican Party of Florida American Express bills.  He spent too lavishly and frivolously, and used his party card for personal business.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jory Rand / abc7.com:
Secret military operations to divert LAX planes for a week  —  Mysterious maneuvers over the Pacific are forcing a change in Los Angeles International Airport landings late at night, meaning noise for thousands of people in the flight path.  —  Instead of landing from the east over Inglewood …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Candidates Stick to Script, if Not the Truth, in 2016 Race  —  “I only tell true stories,” Carly Fiorina assured employees during one of her first speeches as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard in 2000.  —  But the stirring story that Mrs. Fiorina, now a Republican candidate for president …
Ana Radelat / Hartford Courant:
Murphy Slams Pro-Cruz Ad Over Sandy Hook Reference  —  aradelat@ctmirror.org … WASHINGTON — Sen Chris Murphy said a third-party ad supporting Sen. Ted Cruz's White House bid “makes me want to throw up” because it said the GOP presidential candidate “stopped Obama's push for gun control laws” in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings.
Detroit News:
Carson's Westmoreland story doesn't match records  —  Carlisle, Pa. — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's published account of having dinner with a top commander in the Vietnam War after marching in a Memorial Day parade in 1969 as a high school ROTC cadet in Detroit does not match historical records.
RELATED:
David French / National Review:
Sorry, Media, You Won't Destroy Ben Carson
al.com:
How far is too far?  Controversial Alabama-LSU sign decried on social media  —  It's our understanding that the banner was hung at an off-campus apartment complex and it has been removed.  —  This message was issued to UA students by UA Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. David Grady:
Evan Perez / CNN:
Hackers breach FBI-run site, email account of top bureau official  —  Person who claims to have hacked CIA chief talks to CNN  —  Washington (CNN)Hackers who breached the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan have not only evaded arrest, but now are suspected of another embarrassing set …
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
As U.S. Escalates Air War on ISIS, Allies Slip Away  —  AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar — As the United States prepares to intensify airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, the Arab allies who with great fanfare sent warplanes on the initial missions there a year ago have largely vanished from the campaign.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:55 PM ET, November 7, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Paul Schankman / FOX2now.com:
St. Louis doctors accuse mom of repeatedly poisoning 9-year-old son
Discussion: Slantpoint
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel
Raw Story:
Gun shop owner mutilated women and stored their genitals in his freezer: South African police
Anna Palmer / Politico:
House GOP's appetite for more votes shows limits
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Maher: ‘Capt. Carnival Barker and Crazy McSleepy Pants’ are winning because US voters are dumb
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court accepts challenge to health law's contraceptive mandate
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton refrains from attacks while bearing the brunt of her opponents'
Discussion: The Week
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Reid, Pelosi pushing for repeal of ObamaCare's ‘Cadillac tax’
New York Daily News:
Donald Trump had an uncredited ghostwriter for his new book, ‘Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again’
 

 
From Techmeme:

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page