April 3, 2013: Afternoon
- NRA report on school security mixes up shootings, advises more guns, bulletproofing.
- Satellite images of Burma reveal the devastation of the Muslim community at the hands of militant Buddhists.
- Roger Ebert announces new cancer diagnosis, "leave of presence" to write more about anything and everything.
- Obama's BRAIN initiative is based on data too nebulous to warrant billions in funding.
- Related: Why research on duck genitalia deserves federal dollars.
- President personally performs first Obamacare euthanization.
- Older patrons frustrated by zero-tolerance ID policies at drinking establishments.
- Among Shakespeare's other occupations: tax evader, food hoarder, price gouger.
- Why the Gitmo hunger strikes could fail: Suspected terrorists rarely elicit sympathy.
- What it's like to get kidnapped for "fun."
- Maps of where travel warnings are in effect include all the usual suspects—except Brazil.
- A Chinese liquor commercial rips off the Game of Thrones intro sequence.
- With recovery fast becoming a business, we'll soon find ourselves with more addictions.
- How Hot Topic redefined emo for the suburbs, and how it intends to survive in a post-My Chemical Romance world.
- Two entrepreneurs want to make Colorado the Napa of weed.
- Fraggle Rock on mortality.