May 20, 2015

• Los Angeles passes $15 minimum wage increase, to be implemented by 2020.
• On Iraq, candidates flub with "Given what we know now."
• FIFA president proposes Israel-Palestine "peace match" to settle soccer dispute.
• Thinking of history by generations is reductive, inaccurate, and always demeans the young.
• Boomers are reinventing how America dies, giving Gen X one last thing to roll its eyes about.
• Calls for a Muslim Martin Luther are more concerned with catchy slogans than they are with history.
• Four cancer charities that raised $187 million are total shams, says the Federal Trade Commission.
• With $1 million bonds set for each of the 170 arrested bikers, Waco's court system grinds to a halt.
• A history of the Bandidos and biker gangs, who were returning World War II vets flush with severance.
• Airbag recall could affect 34 million cars on the road, and officials are scrambling to figure out which ones.
• "At most restaurants, you are served what you ask for so routinely that your eyes glaze over with boredom."
• A teacher at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's middle school on teaching Monster, about a teen on trial for murder.
• Wise, entertaining, or scandalous: Choose two for any good commencement speech.
• The story behind the "wear sunscreen" commencement speech that never was, and wasn't Vonnegut's.
• New research shows 80% of sunscreens on shelves is either inadequate or even harmful.
• L'Oréal—which has been farming tissues since the 1980s—plans to start 3D printing human skin.
• When it rains spiders, and sometimes it does, they descend to the ground in self-spun parachutes.