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Upton Sinclair once said,  “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” That sounds a lot like what is going on with the police around the nation. In Tennessee, for example, the governor has announced a plan to beef up the police. To do …

Upton Sinclair once said,  “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” That sounds a lot like what is going on with the police around the nation. The calls for police reform, which are obviously needed, are falling entirely on deaf ears. In fact, …

A prominent Hong Kong protestor, Jimmy Sham, has been attacked by men wielding hammers. There were four to five men, and it won’t be long before protestors start accusing the police or even Beijing authorities of instigating. Sham survived the attack and sought help at a hospital, though he was left quite bloodied. Tens of …

LeBron James has come under fire both in the United States and in Hong Kong for recent statements he made. Speaking to journalists about Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s comments about Hong Kong. “I don’t want to get into a [verbal] feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation …

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protestors have pled for the help of the United States, as violences reaches fever pitch amongst protestors and police alike. Unfortunately, their cries for help will likely fall on deaf ears, as the United States (and the world at large) will continue to bow to Chinese economic influence. Chinese …

The 24-hour news cycle makes it pretty easy to sleep into misanthropy, but don’t succumb to it just yet. Take a look at these five reasons to love your fellow humans, and then go try to make more reasons of your own:

If you keep up with the news, you’re probably pretty depressed. But that might be because you’re not looking in the right places. Here are six positive news stories that will make you feel like the world isn’t terrible––if only for a minute. Businessman builds home for boy who studied under street light: A Peruvian …

After opting not to run against Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential nomination, Joe Biden has announced that he will seek the 2020 nomination. He announced his bid in a YouTube video: Biden’s tone in the video is dire, referencing Donald Trump’s notoriously tone-deaf response to the Charlottesville white supremacy march and the ensuing violence. …

Kevin Spacey is to be charged with felony assault, and he is to be arraigned January 7, 2020. From NPR: “Clerk Magistrate Brian Kearney issued the complaint for “indecent assault and battery,” a felony offense, following a public show cause hearing on Thursday. The criminal charges stem from former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh’s accusation last year that Spacey had assaulted her son.”

As this news broke, Kevin Spacey released a mysterious video called “Let Me Be Frank:” 

The Daily Beast did not love the video, to say the least.

This important culinary primer aside, the video is not just a fail, it is also a menacing, self-aggrandizing, beyond tone-deaf, ego-maniacal fail, which shows exactly how little Spacey has cared to learn about himself, or the gravity of what he has been accused of, and the devastating effects of his alleged actions as so eloquently expressed by his accusers, like Anthony Rapp, who claimed Spacey had assaulted him when he was 14.

The video is confusing. What does Spacey mean? Does he want to return to playing Frank Underwood? Or does he want to speak “frankly”, using the classic Underwood direct-to-camera aside? And who is he talking to? The House of Cards audience? The American public at large? Or his accuser? 

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The internet can be a dark place. Take a wrong turn on the information superhighway, and you’ll be reading stories of true crime that will give you nightmares or seeing photos of grisly, horrible things. Take another turn, and you’ll see thousands of videos of cats and dogs just being themselves. It’s very cute and releases some dopamine, but those kinds of videos don’t really enlighten us to the nature of the human condition or inspire us to greater heights of goodness. These videos are meant to do just that.

Just like an American-English speaking person can go to England and notice that people have accents, so too can an America Sign Language speaker can go to England and detect differences in sign languages. This video explains the differences in sign language dialects and how those differences originated. The entire video is presented by a deaf blogger (with the exception of Tom Scott’s introduction), so you’re going to need to put on closed captioning. And life pro-tip, if you’re a fast reader you can double the speed of the video.