May 15, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Massacres and grisly killings in Syria, filmed for the world to see, show gap between diplomacy efforts and events on the ground.
- Kofi Annan's "Africa Progress Report" says resource-rich countries must work together to make tax avoidance harder.
- Ghyslain Raza, formerly known as "Star Wars kid," speaks out against cyber-bullying.
- It takes living in Leipzig to realize The Lives of Others can now be classified as a film about 21st-century America.
- Wealthy New York parents hire black-market disabled guides to help their children cut lines at Disney World.
- Hotel veteran explains why you should never pay for your minibar expenses (because no one else does).
- Gordon Ramsay walks off episode of Kitchen Nightmares after restauranteurs prove to be too horrible—and then the social-media explosion begins.
- Online game Social Roulette features a one-in-six chance of deleting your Facebook account.
- One year after debating a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, Minnesota approves marriage equality.
- Tom Stoppard's classic play revisited now that gay marriage is all the rage.
- See also: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and Oates.
- Publishing's chick-lit genre, synonymous with $16 appletinis and urban glitz, has been almost entirely replaced by "farm lit."
- Maps of astonishing place names found on the islands of Orkney and Shetland.
- "Hiking the Appalachian Trail," "discussing Uganda," and other political euphemisms.
- Accounting for the speed-of-light delay, a map of Earth's jokes and catchphrases that are currently popular in other star systems.
