April 11, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Seymour Hersh on Obama's secret "rat line," funneling weapons from Turkey to the Syrian opposition, including some jihadists.
- Related: Photographer finds art in a parking lot of retired B-52 bombers.
- The fewer babies Americans give birth to, the more small dogs they appear to buy.
- In 2010, less than five newborns were named Khaleesi. That rose to 28 in 2011 and then more than quintupled to 146 in 2012.
- Tasmania, Australia, currently produces half of the world’s opium poppies.
- List of former trademarks that have become generic terms.
- Americans spend $3 billion a year on homeopathic medicines for which there's no convincing evidence of better than a placebo.
- South Africa spends less than 1.2 percent of its GDP on its military—less than Sweden and New Zealand.
- "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," the fragment of papyrus that sparked forgery accusations, appears authentic after a second carbon dating.
- Vermont café bans laptops, cancels wifi, and finds increased profits.
- Yoga pants and leggings have gone the way of NWA shirts, slap bracelets, and eight ball jackets: They’re contraband.
- Rush Limbaugh says CBS's hiring of Stephen Colbert—as himself—to replace Letterman declares "war on the heartland."
- It's fine to enjoy the performance of a scumbag—Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, T.S. Eliot—as long as you suffer knowing he's a scumbag.
- The original Fat Guy and founder of eGullet, Steven Shaw dies at 44.
- Women's biographies of other women found to possess an intensity and intimacy rare in the work of male biographers.
- Translation service offers tweets by Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber in Spanish, French, and Italian.
- You wondered out loud what writing “multiculturally” actually meant and what kind of black man would write the word “bro” in an email.
