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- Rob Ford
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• An alt-weekly goes the “Snowfall” route? —Sam Worley
• That it’s the Onion‘s 25th anniversary today? —Tony Adler
• Jelani Cobb on Barack Obama, on the anniversary of the March on Washington?: “Has a black Presidency moved us closer to the ideal of King’s dream, or reflected its exhaustion as a real possibility?” —Sam Worley
• About Siberia’s first music festival? —Aimee Levitt
• About reports that 12 prominent North Korean musicians, singers, and dancers—including Kim Jong-un’s former girlfriend—have been executed by firing squad for violating pornography laws? —Tony Adler
• That according to Forbes, the worst team in baseball this season is the most profitable in history? (Something its salary-slashing owner denies.) —Kate Schmidt
• That Toronto mayor Rob Ford hasn’t just smoked marijuana, but “a lot” of marijuana? —Tal Rosenberg
• That America’s fast-food employees are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore? —Drew Hunt
• About the autograph collector who owns 115 baseballs signed by world leaders? —Leor Galil
• About the birth of modern American censorship? —Tal Rosenberg
• The Internet as explained by prisoners who have never seen it? —Sam Worley