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I'm waiting for my monster.
Reader
staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey,
did you read:
• That everyone you know is on drugs because
pharmaceuticals "are now being found just about everywhere scientists have looked for them in the environment"?
—Paul John Higgins
• About the people who
try to prevent mass shootings?
—Tal Rosenberg
• About what the success of
Asian Americans means for racial discrimination?
—Sue Kwong
• About
Cocks Not Glocks, a group of University of Texas students protesting a law that will allow concealed weapons on campus next year by strapping on dildos (which are banned at UT)?
—Ryan Smith
• About Audrey Elrod, a woman who answered a Facebook spam message and subsequently became involved in a
global fraud scheme?
—Tal Rosenberg
• About historians' quest to learn more about
Sacagawea?
—Aimee Levitt
• That
Lou Reed was a "monster," according to a new biography?
—Mike Sula
• Or hear Stephin Merritt
deconstructing the song "Andrew in Drag"?
—Kate Schmidt
• How Vin Scully's moments of silence
bring baseball to life?
—Steve Bogira