September 30, 2013: Afternoon
- Kentucky governor tells Republicans to "get over" Obamacare.
- Parsing the doublespeak around the government shutdown uncovers triple negations and results in headaches.
- With the shutdown edging nearer, Republicans lay the groundwork for avoiding blame.
- The Heritage Foundation's 1980 Mandate for Leadership proposed universal health care and made the GOP the party of ideas.
- Last week a U.S. and Iranian president had their first direct contact since 1979—here's how it was tweeted.
- For today's teenagers, steeped in internet dating and porn, the definitions of sex and love have become murky.
- The word "fave" was more popular in the 17th and 18th centuries than it is today.
- If you want to have fun in North Korea, it wouldn't hurt to enjoy singing in the dark.
- Riding the food truck boom, gas station restaurants are the next place to locate new American cuisine.
- Elliott Holt realizes a local cyclist may bear witness to a neighborhood's drama.
- Thirty years ago, by not responding to a false warning that the U.S. had launched five ballistic missiles, a Soviet soldier saved the world.
- Sicily's president is a 62-year-old chain-smoking gay Catholic leftist intent on putting an end to corruption.
- 500 million years in the evolution of North America, depicted with U.S. state lines.
- Rick Ross—not the rapper—"probably did more than anyone else" to cause the spread of crack in the 1980s.
- These are hard times for everybody. and musicians’ blues are pretty low on the list of things in need of urgent correction.