August 16, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Presidents deserve their vacations, but it's too bad they're always taken behind the gates of wealthy friends.
- When you consider the alternatives, you are led, as Obama was, to the logic of the drone.
- Now that Title X has arrived in sports, student captains of high school teams are required to have gay sex with one another.
- Author asks casual sex partners for book recommendations.
- "Sexy baby voice" is more common in women talking to one another than women talking to men.
- Francine Prose on Woody Allen.
- Very good posters designed for the fake films mentioned in Seinfeld.
- New book finds U.S. conduct during the Vietnam War to be much worse than previously understood, where My Lai was “an operation, not an aberration.”
- In journalism as in life, it's useful to know the best ways to ask questions.
- Meet Choire Sicha, "the anti-blogger."
- Related: Choire Sicha schmoozes his way into the 2003 New Yorker festival.
- Dread Pirate Roberts, operator behind the internet's drug market Silk Road, talks to Forbes about his new turf war.
- In Stockholm, elusive thieves dress like ghosts to pick tourists' pockets.
- Author of Orange Is the New Black argues for allowing some women who plead guilty to felonies to remain in their homes with their children.
- Roadie looks back on some of the last meals shared by the influential Washington band Unwound in 2001.
- Scientists find death rates from all causes rise by more than half in people aged under 55 who drink more than 28 cups of coffee a week.
- Label founder James Lavelle makes public his special "Best of Mo’Wax" mix.
- Related: Toro Y Moi (aka Chaz Bundick) covers Ricky Gervais’s comedy song "Slough."
