• Sun-Times Media
• RIP Earl Weaver (left)

Hey, did you read:

• That our great and growing inequality makes a robust recovery difficult, according to Joseph Stiglitz? —Steve Bogira

• That police have issued the highest number of marijuana tickets in Portage Park? —Mike Sula

• Everything on the Internet about the ongoing Manti Te'o saga? (I sure did, including the e-mail conversation about it between Chuck Klosterman and Malcolm Gladwell.) —Kevin Warwick

• Carl Sandburg's newly discovered poem about handguns? —Tony Adler

• The death of "irascible and brilliant" baseball manager Earl Weaver? —Mick Dumke

• About Lupe Fiasco's insane Inauguration performance? —Leor Galil

• Martin Douglas on being the only black guy at the indie-rock show? —Tal Rosenberg

• Vi..Cult...
• Quinoa

Hey, did you read:

• That according to this Politico story, Obama must lead a Democratic party with two factions: liberals, who want to focus on income inequality and unemployment, and centrists, who have more allegiance to Wall Street? (Guess which one Mayor Emanuel is.) —Steve Bogira

• As if you didn't suspect as much, that the last session of Congress was the most politically divided in history? —Mick Dumke

• That the much-bemoaned budget deficit "is already, to a large degree, solved," according to Paul Krugman? —Steve Bogira

• About the questionable ethics behind the quinoa trade? —Luca Cimarusti

• Adam Mansbach's first dispatch from his book tour? ("The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961, and has been doing everything the same way ever since.") —Sam Worley

• The Library of Congress blog on the inaugural Bibles? —John Dunlevy

• This Pitchfork article on New York City's new underground dance-music culture? —Tal Rosenberg

• Shotgun Spratling/Neon Tommy
• Manti Te'o: Duped?

Hey, did you read:

• The tale of Manti Te'o's mysterious girlfriend? —Tony Adler

• That Lance Armstrong shouldn't be punished for taking performance-enhancing drugs, but for being a huge asshole? —Tal Rosenberg

• This footage from DNAinfo of a CVS manager who wasn't charged with strangling a shoplifter to death quite clearly strangling a shoplifter to death? (Not exactly graphic or NSFW, but certainly a bit disturbing.) —Drew Hunt

• About American Airlines' new tech-friendly airplanes? (But will the new planes solve the airlines' problems with delays, cancellations, and malfunctions?) —Tal Rosenberg

• Laura Miller's review of Going Clear, the new Scientology expose by Lawrence Wright? —Sam Worley

• That 16-year-old Oak Park style blogger Tavi Gevinson released a cover of a Pet Shop Boys song on DNAinfo? (??) —Sam Worley

• Chief Keef, adding a new thing to shit he doesn't like

Hey, did you read:

• Alexis Madrigal on air pollution in Beijing now and Pittsburgh up to the mid-20th century—and some thoughts from Chicago's smoke inspector in 1896? —John Dunlevy

• That busts for marijuana possession dropped significantly after Chicago's new pot law went into effect last summer? —Mick Dumke

• That Chief Keef has been taken into custody for violating his probation by doing that video interview for Pitchfork? —Leor Galil

• That someone was shot outside our building this morning? —Mick Dumke

• The argument that the Second Amendment was ratified in order to assure southern slaveholders that their patrols designed to prevent uprisings could continue? —Tony Adler

• Meaghan Garvey's essay on dudes who are intimidated by female rap fans? —Leor Galil

• The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop, the ultimate in pop-critic year-end lists? (Rob Harvilla's essay on rapper-singer Future is a standout: "He uses Auto-Tune the way Picasso used nude women, the way Obama uses drones.") —Tal Rosenberg

• Lifehacker
• NO!

Hey, did you read:

• That the city of Chicago is getting ready to pay another $33 million to close two police-related lawsuits? —Mick Dumke

• About the 18 human heads that turned up at O'Hare? —Luca Cimarusti

• About the Kichwa, an indigenous tribe in the Ecuadoran rainforest, and its commitment to armed resistance against oil prospecting in their region? (Oddest part of the story: the tribe's shaman is married to a British businesswoman.) —Ben Sachs

• About developments being made towards creating "wearable" computers? —Tal Rosenberg

• How owner CBS overruled CNET's editorial decision to give its CES best-in-show award to a new DVR incorporating ad-skipping technology? —John Dunlevy

• That Slate says you should probably just disable Java in your browser now, seeing as this is the second time in the last six months it's had major security flaws? —Julia Thiel

• Farhad Manjoo's revisiting of his rant about why hitting the space bar twice after a period is ridiculous? —Kevin Warwick

• Patti Smith's advice for artists hoping to get a start in New York? —Tony Adler

• Coming in 2016

Hey, did you read:

• The sobering timeline of Chicago's 2012 homicides by DNAinfo.com? —Mick Dumke

• David Carr on the publication of handgun permit names and addresses? ("In trendy journalistic circles, data is all the rage," but data "doesn’t always tell the truth.") —Steve Bogira

• How Congress essentially blocked research on gun violence? —Mick Dumke

• That today is the day that fare hikes go into effect on CTA bus and rail lines (including a new five-dollar charge on Blue Line trains leaving O'Hare)? —Tal Rosenberg

• The White House response to a petition to "secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016"? —John Dunlevy

• The chart of emotions for which English offers no names? —Tony Adler

That Hollywood is working double time to make up for the gender-equality shortcomings of the Obama administration? (Of course, Hollywood still has plenty to answer for.) —Mara Shalhoup

• Snakes on a Plane

Hey, did you read:

• That Mayor Emanuel will introduce another proposal to further tighten gun laws in Chicago? —Mick Dumke

• The New York Times Magazine's role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail"—including not publishing it? —John Dunlevy

• About how Samsung has become the biggest tech company in the world? —Tal Rosenberg

• This photo-essay about the enormous wall of dust that hit western Australia? —Ben Sachs

• That the FDA is advising women to cut back on their sleeping pills? ("Mishaps with sleepy driving—and even strange acts of texting, eating or having sex in the night without any memory of it in the morning—have long been familiar to the medical community," according to the New York Times.) —Steve Bogira

• That Ike Holter's Hit the Wall will be hitting New York (which is appropriate, since it deals with the Stone Wall riots, which took place in Greenwich Village)? —Tony Adler

• This (possibly apocryphal) account of an Esquire photo shoot featuring Truman Capote, Margaret Mead, Leonard Bernstein, and others—in the nude? Abandoned because "the results were apparently disappointing somehow." —Sam Worley

• That life does imitate art (or, in lieu of art, Snakes on a Plane)? —Ben Sachs

• Toglenn
• Casting agents beware!

Hey, did you read:

• That President Obama and his allies are planning a public-opinion campaign they hope will counter the NRA? —Mick Dumke

• (Or seen, rather) this extraordinarily flamboyant outtake reel from pray-the-gay-away org Exodus International? Presumably released to demonstrate EI's sense of humor, instead demonstrates the utter futility of gay-conversion therapy. (h/t old Reader pal Asher Klein) —Sam Worley

• "The Science of Sex Abuse," by Rachel Aviv, in the New Yorker? (On locking up people indefinitely for crimes they might commit.) —Steve Bogira

• That the Sun-Times is rerunning its landmark Mirage Tavern investigation? —Tony Adler

• How Richard Ben Cramer snuck 1,500 excised words back into his famous Ted Williams profile? —Sam Worley

• About "The Murky History of Foosball"? —John Dunlevy

• What happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie? (Apparently, you end up naked a month later in a Malibu bedroom.) —Tal Rosenberg

• Pete Souza
• Our next governor?

Hey, did you read:

• About Governor Daley? ("Bill wants to run," a source tells Michael Sneed, and the poll Daley's commissioned to assess his chances will help him decide.) —Steve Bogira

• That the average U.S. temperature last year—55.3 degrees—was a full degree higher than the old record, set in 1998? (Globally, the ten warmest years on record have all been in the last 15 years.) —Steve Bogira

• About the "cringeworthy conversations, product demos, and music" that were Qualcomm's mess of a keynote at CES? —John Dunlevy

• About Turkish simits muscling in on the New York bagel trade? —Tony Adler

• The Vice story about the documentary film Scrappers, which looks at Chicago's scrap-metal collectors? —Tal Rosenberg

• That former Miss Alabama Katherine Webb says ESPN didn't need to apologize for Brent Musburger's audible jaw drop when she was shown during the NCAA football championship Monday? —Mick Dumke

• Former Reader writer Edward McClelland's hilarious story about insulting "rock" singer Richard Marx on his blog, then having to face down the singer at his neighborhood watering hole? —Tal Rosenberg

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• Superintendent McCarthy

Hey, did you read:

• About the health issues for young teens raised by the legalization of marijuana? —Steve Bogira

• That Chicago has repeatedly failed to move kids with learning disabilities into special-ed preschool programs? —Steve Bogira

• That police superintendent Garry McCarthy plans on enlisting local celebrities like Derrick Rose and Common to discourage the "no-snitching" code of silence? —Tal Rosenberg

• About the Mexico City exhibit of items from Frida Kahlo's long-locked closet? —Tony Adler

• This interview with storied disco and soul DJ, remixer, and producer Tom Moulton? —Tal Rosenberg

• This bizarre secret memo for music writers regarding the upcoming In Utero reissue? —Luca Cimarusti

• Tina Fey's reply to a commenter on perezhilton.com? —Tony Adler

• How the SEC became both a football and a financial juggernaut? —Mick Dumke