- But seriously, it is Earth Day, which Vice President Biden is honoring through the announcement of a neighborhood energy retrofit program to be piloted in 25 communities.
- Hey, would you look at that? It's also still Confederate History Month, as hosted by Frederick Douglass.
- Courtesy the BBC, a first-time voters' guide and some commentary on the state of the UK elections: "A lot of students and members of the public see [politicians] as comedy figures rather than to be taken seriously."
- Vatican promotes bishop who blames the Devil for child abuse and rape suits against the church.
- There's concern among Humboldt Co. pot growers that legalization might put their local growing industry out of business.
- New Jersey voters reject school budgets, flip this generation of students the Bird.
- GM repays the government, will continue to make useful, if problematic, goods, unlike the finance industry, which will continue to mostly make poverty.
- Shorter, this discussion about frivolous female consumption: Someday, it would be interesting to see the reaction to an article about how silly men are for buying dozens of pricey video games when they play, like, three on a consistent basis, how selfish they are for not using their shopping time to buy clothes for their kids or hunting down a perfect interview suit for their female partner, or how irresponsible they are for spending so much of their food dollar on snacks and beer. But that article isn't going to appear in a major paper, not being nearly as entertaining to the masses as mocking women for doing the majority of household shopping.
- Seventeen years worth of data says that corn is more energy efficient as human food than as animal feed or processed biofuel. This is Natasha's complete lack of surprise.
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