Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• About the merciful two-year sentence given to former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell for his financial crimes, and the merciless life sentence given to a Virginia teen? —Steve Bogira
• Or see the Joe Biden random compliment generator? —Aimee Levitt
• About the new study published in Nature that shows “trillions of dollars of known and extractable [fossil fuels] cannot be exploited if the global temperature rise is to be kept under the 2C safety limit agreed by the world’s nations”? —Ben Sachs
• About the Chicago man who died from a 70-year-old gunshot wound? —Gwynedd Stuart
• That Tony Fitzpatrick is undergoing open-heart surgery today? —Tal Rosenberg
• The Onion‘s response to the Charlie Hebdo attack? —Mick Dumke
• That hydraulic fracturing operations—also known as “fracking”—in Ohio caused a couple earthquakes? —Drew Hunt
• About the return of a murderous Nazi cow breed? —Mike Sula