Friday, April 29, 2016

April 29, 2016


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Anticipating this weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner, a list of jokes told by every president.

Boehner calls Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” “the most miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

Don’t underestimate Trump’s top advisor, who made “a booming business working with dictators.”

Wilson Quarterly puts together an illustrated guide to the history of camouflage.

Southern German city of Augsburg installs traffic lights in the pavement for pedestrians staring at their phones.

Economist creates table to measure how much competitive runners slow down as they get older.

How Leicester City, against 5,000-to-1 odds, may win England’s Premier League soccer championship this weekend.

How to drink in Qatar, where alcohol is mostly illegal.

Dispatch from Nepal, where a government-aided fuel crisis is used to suppress ethnic minorities.

Colombia becomes Latin America’s fourth country to legalize same-sex marriage, following Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Oklahoma ruling spotlights the yawning gap between changing mores about consent and laws on the books.

Feinstein and Burr’s bill is not based in any technical reality. Lawmakers don’t understand encryption.

Panda-suited man shot by Baltimore police after he threatens to bomb a TV station.

Anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist is the keynote speaker at a New York summit for hundreds of police officers.

Yes, that links Eazy-E and Phil Collins. Five moments trace hip-hop’s love affair with Phil Collins.

NFL owners in the ‘80s found a way to fight labor by convincing star quarterbacks to sign over their jersey rights.

Top NFL prospect tumbles after a draft-day Twitter hack shows him smoking a bong through a gas mask.

Ed Balls. Brief history of Twitter’s Ed Balls day.

Related: Ed Balls celebrates this year’s anniversary by baking his famous tweet a cake.

Weight Watchers Connect is the only social media network remaining that doesn’t make me hate myself.

Astonishing story of skiiers who survived a blizzard in Alaska by digging themselves a cave without a shovel.

See also: Wikipedia’s amazing, very entertaining list of missing aircraft.

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