May 12, 2014
- With 104 billionaires in the UK, Britain now has more billionaires per capita than any other country.
- Day in the life of a billionaire's butler.
- London restaurant imposes fine on customers who don't finish what they picked up from the lunch buffet.
- Putin suspiciously scores six goals and five assists in a televised hockey game.
- Americans love "football"—30 million watched Premier League matches this season, more than double the total last year.
- Democrats' embrace be-happy-but-worry strategy as they prepare to protect their Senate seats.
- See also: Bluffers’ guide to the overall midterm contest.
- Rand Paul: Show us the justification to target an American citizen for execution without a trial by jury or due process.
- Gun enthusiast explains why he gave up guns for good after a burglar broke into his house.
- Senior citizens fret that robotic caretakers will charm their younger family members.
- Adult Burmese pythons don’t have any natural enemies in Florida, and in some ways they have more in common with oranges than with alligators.
- Number of people who were electrocuted by power lines correlates with Alabama's marriage rate, and other spurious correlations.
- Chinese newspapers report China considering a “China-Russia-Canada-America” high-speed train line.
- Related: Interview with a New York City subway operator.
- Eviction notice served to America's oldest black bookstore, San Francisco’s Marcus Books.
- Pictures from inside some of the best and worst of America's 17,000 public libraries.
- US government paying out $16.5 million annually to widows, sons, and daughters of WWI veterans.
- Interview with Courtney Love.