April 2, 2015

• Arkansas governor to reject legislation modeled on Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
• See also: Connecticut's women's basketball team is on a collision course with Indiana's RFRA.
• McDonald's to raise wages and offer paid vacation to workers at non-franchise restaurants, or 10% of its locations.
• Related: The McDonald's wage hike follows a larger market trend—to compete, it needs to get in line.
• Mid-level government officials in China learning to drive after budget cuts eliminate chauffeurs.
• Eleven Atlanta educators convicted for inflating student test scores to get more government funding.
• Teacher turnover epidemic costs millions, but the fix—ceding more classroom control—costs nothing.
• Seattle's botched underground highway.
• We all feel guilty about it, this avoidance of the political other, because we know Jesus would never do the same.
• For New Chronology proponents, human history up to the 11th century is fabricated, plagiarized nonsense.
• South Korean adoptee could be deported after being abandoned by his parents in the US three decades ago.
• Scientists still unsure where high energy bursts of radio waves from space are coming from, exactly.
• "The Live Tweet of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TMN's Eric Feezell.
• Police in Malegaon, India, ask cattle owners to provide cow mugshots to help enforce beef ban.
• Though they're no less likely to end up in the hospital, apple-a-day eaters take fewer prescription drugs.
• Chill asks us to remove the language of courtship and desire lest we appear invested somehow in other human beings.