March 25, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Nearly a third of the $1.6 billion Fukushima cleanup budget has been wasted through expensive and ineffective technology.
- Obama pushes back Afghanistan troop withdrawal until after 2015.
- Congress looks to add a permanent slush fund to the budget for war.
- From yesterday's Tournament of Books decision, where Redeployment was booted as propaganda: The US has been at war for 222 out of its 239 years.
- All of us are in agreement that you don’t make oral deals with Iran.
- Ted Cruz's wife is going on a leave of absence, which means the family's going on Obamacare.
- In Korea, thousands tune in for mukbang, or eating shows, where fans spend hours watching unlikely stars binge.
- Sylvester Stallone has killed 539 people in his movies, 30 more than Schwarzenegger.
- Despite applying twice, and appearing on a postage stamp, Russell Crowe can't get Australian citizenship.
- When you’re responsible for following men around and cleaning up after them it’s, at best, funny and humbling, and at worst, humiliating.
- Even though most nurses are women, male nurses make $5,100 more per year than female colleagues in similar positions.
- DEA's average cost in 2014 to remove a marijuana plant: $4.20.
- The Statue of Liberty National Monument is one of more than 100 national parks directly threatened by climate change.
- Hawaiians in the town of Pahoa anxiously await slow-moving lava.
- Warming climate enables pine beetle infestations to afflict greater swathes of forest, with no relief apparent.
- Freedom of speech doesn't allow college student to wear his "Broad Fucking City" shirt on a plane.
- Princeton Review accuses Taylor Swift of bad grammar in her lyrics; Swift points out their error.
- With a Cinderella reboot in the wings, the princess myth is unlikely to die soon.
- In today's match in the Tournament of Books, it's A Brief History of Seven Killings v. The Paying Guests, judged by Laura Cogan.
- New from Field Notes, the "Two Rivers" edition, designed in support of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
