October 17, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Two years later, American governance is behaving as though it deserves to be downgraded.
- What the GOP in Congress would look like as clowns, which, well.
- During last night's House vote, a stenographer lost her composure and was removed from the floor.
- America is governed by entitlements because they're not classified as discretionary, so that's where the jobs are.
- An Esquire-NBC poll finds the new American center: They don't like religion, guns, or politicians.
- Food bank directors in Chicago and Arlington describe life at the front lines of poverty.
- The true rebels of the Civil War were the freed slaves who enlisted to fight back at Southern slaveholders.
- The practice of practicing.
- In Somalia, locking a patient in a cage with a hyena is believed to cure mental illness.
- See also: When a marriage and family counselor goes through a midlife crisis, here come the professional infidelities.
- Russian-Dutch relations wither following a hate crime in Moscow; Russia considers a ban on tulips and cheese.
- Beware the syrup: How to spot good gelato from 15 feet away.
- Japanese company releases wine for cats.
- Oreos activate more neurons in a rat's brain's "pleasure center" than cocaine.
- Pot smokers have lower BMIs, healthier insulin, and smaller waistlines than everyone else.
- Why 1729 is all over Futurama.
