* Ahead of spending-cuts crisis, White House plans shame campaign to make the GOP's position indefensible. * Two weeks ago, as a result of Spielberg's Lincoln, Mississippi officially ratified the 13th amendment to ban slavery. * Greece to reach true primary surplus this year, taking in more revenue
* The most important fact about the United States in this century is that middle-class incomes are stagnating. * How to buy recreational drugs online. * A new survey shows underage drinkers prefer beer, and especially Budweiser. * Program makes rhyming couplets from tweets unintentionally written in iambic pentameter. * Poem by William McGonagall,
* Rather than mapping the brain, the Obama administration should solve the brain-behavior connection—the crux of neuroscience. * The opposite of President's Day: How the world's dictators and monarchs celebrate themselves. * Like the first laws limiting hours worked, [the minimum wage was] paternalistic in nature, and
* This is the first time that Americans are going to be relatively worse off than their parents or grandparents in old age. * Gallery: Brian Ulrich's photographs of abandoned malls and empty big-box stores. * Mindy McCready is the third person to die from her season of Celebrity Rehab.
* By endangering the public to protect itself, the LAPD's pursuit of Dorner shows the department hasn't progressed so much, after all. * Following Friday's close call, NASA discusses the other orbiting asteroids that threaten Earth. * Related: Interstellar Hard Drive. * New analysis of lunar rocks brought
* Iranian politicians shouldn't high-five in public. * Human migration is impossible to stop, and is growing exponentially—Obama would do well to take lessons from China. * Wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the makers of Jack3d; GNC puts its supply on markdown. * Actress in hip-hop video about recreational
* Tennessee congressman wasn't sending flirty tweets to a mistress, but to a secret, long-lost daughter. * The love story of Harry and Bess Truman began when they were five-year-olds in Sunday school. * To celebrate Valentine's Day, CDC announced yesterday the U.S. is home
* American Airlines and US Airways confirm $11-billion merger, and will operate together under the American brand. * CBS footage of a gun battle from the final stage of the manhunt for Christopher Dorner. * Quest to end the miserable migraines. * Addiction to "ataya"—a hot, strong tea—becoming a
* Liberals support Obama's foreign policy for the same reason they backed George W. Bush—because they're interventionist. * "10 Food Documentaries to Stream on Netflix Tonight" includes the terrific Kings of Pastry. * See also: The complete Beatles songbook covered on ukelele. * Westminster Dog Show champion
* Interactive graphic of every State of the Union speech shows the language is getting dumber. * Research suggests cold weather makes us better decision makers in Alaska than in Florida. * Few, if any, hospitals know the cost of a new hip, and there appears to be no set market price. * List
