*1. THE STONEWALL INN
Besides a Greenwich Village bar recently named as a National Historic Landmark, what is the Stonewall Inn? "Truth be told, the Stonewall Inn was nothing special. Just a dive bar where drag queens and drag kings gathered with others from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. But how many Americans today would know what the acronym LGBT meant if not for what happened there in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969? For the police, a raid on a joint like the Stonewall had been, until June 1969, a no-brainer. It was Deputy Inspector Pine who led the police raid on the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street that night; the night that queer patrons fought back. And it was Ms. DeLarverie (her first name was pronounced “Stormy”) who may or may not have led the charge." From WaPo - The long march from the Stonewall Inn and NYT - Storme DeLarverie and Seymour Pine, on Opposite Sides of Stonewall
+ From NYT - Gay Catholic Groups Want Pope Francis to Do More Than Apologize
+ From WaPo - I’m sorry, but Pope Francis rocks when it comes to the gays
*2. TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!
The video embedded in this article is awesome. "The booster fired horizontally for just over two minutes, burning through 5.5 tons of propellant per second, shooting flames out at three times the speed of sound, with temperatures that were expected to reach 3,700 degrees. The booster test comes ahead of the rocket's first mission, planned for 2018, when it would launch the unmanned Orion spacecraft on a three-week journey that would take it around the moon." From WaPo - NASA tests the massive rocket booster it says will go to Mars
*3. HOW MUCH IS YOUR VW DIESEL WORTH
Apparently, about $10,000 if you sell it back outright. "Volkswagen will settle its emissions scandal case for $14.7 billion. More than $10 billion of the settlement will go to fix or buy back 475,000 Volkswagens. Another $2.7 billion will go into an Environmental Protection Agency trust fund for environmental remediation, and the German automaker will spend $2 billion more on American clean energy technology." From WaPo - Volkswagen agrees to pay consumers biggest auto settlement in history
*4. ARE YOU PASSIONATE?
It doesn't really matter, because in most cases it won't pay the bills. "There's just one problem with all this advice about passion-following: It's terrible — and probably harmful. One recent chart from 80,000 Hours, a group promoting a kind of data-driven approach to career decisions, starkly illustrates the issue: The things people are passionate about and the things that they can make a living from are usually not the same things." 90% of students are passionate about sports, arts, leisure or music. Only 3% of the jobs come from those fields. From WaPo - Why Harvard’s career advice for its students is totally wrong
*5. BENGHAZI - THE STORY THAT KEEPS GIVING
Maybe this will put this well-tread story to rest. "A final report issued by the Republican-majority committee that investigated the 2012 attacks in Benghazi found fault with virtually every element of the executive-branch response to the attacks but provided no new evidence of specific wrongdoing by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton." From WaPo - House Republicans issue report on Benghazi attacks but find no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton
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