Morning Updates: Taxis have been utterly crushed by ride-hailing apps
Good morning, Boston. One of the two men who allegedly beat up a homeless Hispanic man says he was inspired by Donald Trump, Josh Duggar is exposed (again), and the rest of the news you need to know today.
Prep school rape case and sexual assault psychology: “An hour earlier, the girl had been on the floor of a dark mechanical room, she told the courtroom, eyes clenched shut, waiting for her first sexual experience to be over. Back at her dorm, when her phone pinged with a message from him—’You’re an angel’—the girl, sore and shaken, pecked out a reply. ‘You’re quite an angel yourself,’ the 15-year-old girl wrote.’’ (Boston.com)
Attack on the homeless: “Police said two brothers from South Boston ambushed the 58-year-old [homeless man] as he slept outside of a Dorchester MBTA stop, and targeted him because he is Hispanic. One of the brothers said he was inspired in part by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. … ‘Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported,’ he allegedly told the police.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Boston taxis have been utterly crushed: “Boston taxi ridership dropped 22 percent in the first half of this year, a massive decline that provides the strongest evidence yet to support the local taxi industry’s complaint that its business is being eroded by upstart competitors Uber and Lyft.’’ (The Boston Globe)
The “Free The Nipple’’ movement heads to the beach: “Kia Sinclair plans to take her top off this weekend, for a cause. Free The Nipple, a worldwide movement seeking to eliminate the double standard in censoring female breasts, is making its way to New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach on Sunday, International Go Topless Day.’’ (Boston.com)
The sanctity of marriage: “In 2013, conservative reality TV star Josh Duggar—of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting fame—was named the executive director of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group in D.C. which seeks ‘to champion marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society.’ During that time, he also maintained a paid account on Ashley Madison, a web site created for the express purpose of cheating on your spouse.’’ (Gawker)
The garish yet oddly beautiful Space Jam website: “It may have taken some 15 years for the Space Jam site to generate that kind of attention, but it remains a fascinating love letter to a web that only still exists within its bones. The code that makes up the Space Jam site is the same basic programming language that still comprises much of the modern web, and its design, attitude and overall aesthetic became magic captured in a bottle, immune to the myriad technological advancements that have come and gone while influencing a generation yet to come.’’ (Rolling Stone)
The Goodbye: For Throwback Thursday, the Boston artifacts in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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