Headlines from November 22, 2013

Is it not significant that all these great presidents were well-educated men? From 1964, a JFK eulogy.
From Annie Hall to Slacker, finding humor in JFK assassination conspiracies. #video
I was in my gym class…Someone came in and said the president had been shot, and people cheered.
Alabama state parole board posthumously pardons nine black teenagers falsely accused of rape in 1931.
Researchers find ibuprofen negates a marijuana buzz—the combination may help treat Alzheimer’s.
When the alleged Silk Road founder was busted he was logged into the drug market’s customer support.
Over-the-counter pot will compete with illicit pot. Washington’s rough road to a legal marijuana economy. #longreads
In the next 20 years, “data-driven personnel decision [will be] the thing that’s changed people’s lives the most.”
Suicides in most developed nations are falling—except South Korea, whose rate is more than twice the U.S.
Ted Cruz’s description of the ideal 2016 Republican presidential candidate sounds a lot like himself.
The fist bump is ridiculous, but it’s the ideal way to show camaraderie without sharing bacteria.
Siblings gather around PowerPoint to hash out off-limits topics for Thanksgiving.
According to PornHub’s traffic, no one partakes in porn on Christmas or Thanksgiving. #nsfw
Wired’s Angry Nerd calls The Hunger Games a watered-down Running Man.
The car chase wends its way back to Texas, as Nixon and Connally step on it!
Quotations and reports pulled from New York Times articles that ran in the four days following JFK’s death.
Illustrated guide and plausibility reports for every JFK conspiracy. #tmn
Related: Time-lapse map of every nuclear explosion that’s ever taken place on Earth. #video
Today, the 113th Congress became notably consequential. Ezra Klein on the big filibuster change.
See also: Brief history of the Senate filibuster fight.
Republicans in Congress have been using a “House Republican Playbook” to oppose Obamacare; the book’s one actual play makes no sense.
New book, Why I’m Going to Leave France, says more than half of the active French population is living off the state.
New York’s about to get a new football club, and New Yorkers may want to learn the history of superimposed British clubs. #longreads #tmn
Boxing’s not so well kept dirty secret is that, financially, most fighters can never stop.
San Francisco spent around $105,000 for Batkid; city hopes to recoup some of the costs from private donations.
Spain-based artist lets his own sculptures drown. #photography
NBA fines Dwight Howard $25,000 for throwing a ball at a heckler in the stands.
Convenience store owner installs cameras to film police, who have stopped and questioned one of his employees 258 times in four years.
Profile of Greg Packer, average joe who loves to be interviewed and quoted on the news. #video
Anti-Pickup-Artist Movement website is primarily stocked by “incel” users—involuntarily celibate—for whom pickup-artist tricks unfortunately don’t work.
Photographs of famous cityscapes transitioning from day to night.
Related: Totem poles constructed from things that Americans love to consume. #tmn