October 8, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Pro-shutdown House Republicans are holed up in a conservative narrative that isn't entirely crazy—but it's close enough.
- Surowiecki: For small businesses and entrepreneurs, the benefits of Obamacare are enormous.
- Area family putting a little money away to one day blow on single health scare.
- Ironic detachment isn't high on my list of worrisome problems the United States faces.
- Pyongyang tells U.S. to expect a "horrible disaster" over planned military exercises with South Korea and Japan.
- Rebuffed as an alternate venue for the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South, North Korea hopes its ski resort will lure luxury travelers.
- Smoking weed in North Korea: It's entirely legal, dirt cheap, and totally weak.
- The beautiful, creative Detroit outsiders never see.
- Welcome to baseball scout school.
- The most dangerous places in New York City, according to the movies filmed there.
- Facebook's Menlo Park employee housing will offer every amenity imaginable except human day care—dogs are covered.
- Of the 100 things you need to do before you die, you don't need to do any of them—so stop.
- Hollywood Stuntz is a person, not a biker gang, and he's making it known he wasn't at the rally that ended in the beating of Alexian Lien.
- Howard Stern, my literary idol.
- Bowie is among us. Right here / In New York City. In a baseball cap / And expensive jeans.
