The Real Reason They Robbed Lindsay & Paris

June 4, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Bling Ring Author: 'You Have To Protect Your Kids From This' Director Sofia Coppola's new film "The Bling Ring' depicts the wild real-life 2008-2009 burglaries of celebrities like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan by a group of Southern California teens. The fictionalized film is based on Nancy Jo Sales' 2010 Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." Sales has since turned the story into a new book called "The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World." Continue reading... CONFESSIONS OF A HIPSTER LOOK: Movies Coming To The Cemetery This June LAPD Reveals Finding In Chris Dorner Firing Review WATCH: Possibly Record-Breaking Shark Caught WATCH: 'Tour Guides With Disabilities' Help You Cut Lines 'The Voice' Star Calls Out Obama For HIV/AIDS Funding Cuts 'Female James Bond' Acquitted In Death Of Model Goodbye, Edith Darling WATCH: Possibly Record-Breaking Shark Caught What Kind Of Asian Are You? Where Are You Really From? WATCH: 'Tour Guides With Disabilities' Help You Cut Lines LEWIS LAPHAM The (Less Than) Eternal Sea Nothing in the sea lives by itself, nothing either on the earth or in the air or in the minds of men. To know the sea is mortal is to know that we are not apart from it. Continue reading... JEFF RAKE The Boy of (Almost) Summer A crowd of 8,019 showed up at Dodger Stadium Friday night -- miniscule by MLB standards, but respectable for high school baseball. The event was the CIF Southern California Section Division 1 Championship. Continue reading... ERIC W. SANDERSON Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs EXCERPT Car companies, rubber companies, oil companies, and their advertisers saturate the landscape with the useful myth: Americans wouldn't be American if we didn't drive. Our chariots of freedom chain us to the politics, economics, and perils of oil. Continue reading... TOM ANGELL ACLU Report: Racist Marijuana Laws Target Blacks While marijuana use rates between blacks and whites are comparable, blacks are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. Continue reading... TROY CAMPBELL Why We Ignore the Biggest Problem in Education We won't solve the education problem till we solve the "Day One Problem" and acknowledge the simple fact: on day one of first grade, we need better kids, not just better teachers. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003