June 28, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Senate approves contentious bipartisan effort to overhaul immigration laws, but the Republican-controlled House calls it bunk.
- See also: Frontline documentary, Rape in the Fields, about rapes of immigrant women.
- In case you were wondering: 210 reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire.
- Biomechanical basis discovered for why humans can throw a fastball and monkeys can't.
- Glenn Beck compares Paula Deen to Martin Luther King Jr.; Deen loses sponsors, but gains cruises and book sales.
- Mansplanation for Rick Perry's mansplaining about abortion.
- See also: "NPR Be Like 'Black People Be Like I Love Moscato.'"
- UK Government overrules the OED's definition of "husband" and "wife" after gay marriage legislation.
- Economist says, in light of the gay marriage decision, Andrew Sullivan is the most influential public intellectual of the last 25 years.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin reports on strange coincidences—and ticks—occurring while on book tour in Mississippi.
- Related: Excerpt from Baldwin's Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down, now available in paperback.
- Rejection letter to Gertrude Stein from 1912.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art abandoning its metal pin admission tag, "an antiquated luxury" that's become too expensive.
- Dating website for adulterers finds that most of its female users wear Banana Republic, with J. Crew and Lululemon trailing close behind.
- Your Friday obscure magazine: Flaneur, with every issue about a single street.
