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V.25 No.38 | 09/22/2016

The Daily Word in The Presidential Debate, Bionic Yarn and Mars Colonization

The Daily Word

One short list of falsehoods from the Clinton-Trump debate, and one much longer analysis.
And in case you missed the debate and are interested, here's a link.

Speaking of debates, here's one way to settle them.

Have a strong opinion about the presidential candidates? Today is National Voter Registration day, so make sure you register and go vote on Nov. 8!

Say hello to recycled polyester, otherwise known as Bionic Yarn, a clothing material made from used plastics. Optimistically speaking, this could make a huge positive impact on the atrocious amount of plastics currently floating in the oceans.

To be happy is to be healthy. And it's contagious.

Nearly 300 tech firms across the country are declaring Nov. 8, election day, a paid company holiday.

Elon Musk speaks at the International Astronautical Congress in Mexico about his plan to colonize Mars. Watch the talk live here.

In an analysis of revolutionaries vs reactionaries in modern American history, opinion writer David Brooks states, “It doesn't matter how much living standards rise or the poverty rate falls, it makes you seem smart and woke to be alarmed and hypercritical.” Read the article for more thoughtful insights about our strange yearning for an idealized past, and why “it's stupid and impossible to turn back the clock.”

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The Daily Word: Government shutdown, another earthquake,

The Daily Word

APD Officer Levi Chavez may be indicted. His wife died in 2007, and though it was considered a suicide, friends and family didn't believe it, according to a wrongful death lawsuit.

Student says Cibola told her: You're either a boy or a girl, so no pantsuit at graduation.

See video of a San Juan County sheriff's deputy beating a guy in the head with his flashlight.

Another quake hits Japan.

President Obama says there won't be a government shutdown.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it's going to happen.

What it would mean to you.

If the government does shut down, Congress will still be paid as usual.

The Recording Academy will no longer offer a Grammy for Native American music.

Land Comish Powell returned White Peak to the nature-loving and -hunting public.

16 campus security officers (called "narcs" at my ABQ high school) were slashed from the APS budget.

Read an interview with the journalist who was captured and then released in Libya.

Can we blame Britain for everything?

Alec Baldwin says "30 Rock" ends next year.

A history of stoner movies.