A ten-question quiz about the rules of baseball. Sam Fuld, Stanford grad, collaborated with his dad:

“It was humiliating,” he said, with a laugh that suggested he’d get over that humiliation somehow. “I would have done better if I’d closed my eyes and picked randomly. It’s pathetic to think that my three-year-old son could have done better than that.

“If you questioned about a hundred five-year-olds, they’d get five out of 10,” the Rays’ human highlight reel said, dejectedly. “And my dad and I got a three.”

I scored (read: guessed) a 5, beating 8 of 20 players, 3 of 7 sportswriters, and tying 2 of 5 managers.

I’m in the wrong business.

“[He] called and said, ‘Look you have to get us involved,’” recalled the source. “I said, first of all, I don’t have to; second of all, we’ve tried; and third you’ve said you refuse to work for the rates we can pay.”

Then Capobianco said something that the source would never forget.

“He said, ‘I would just hate for anything to happen,’” recalled the source. Capobianco then rattled off a list of the source’s home address, his wife’s name, his kids and their current whereabouts.

Vote Union No.

Erik Hess, regarding the various Government responses to the NSA scandal generally falling under the category of “this is not new / totally legal / lot’s-o-checks and balances.”

What doesn’t seem to be clear to our lawmakers is that we know all this, and we’re mad anyway. I’ll note briefly that this is the same government that couldn’t get their act together enough to avoid budget sequestration.

Well said.

Completely fascinating and breathtaking story of “life” in North Korea, especially the last sentence of this paragraph:

Fujimoto and Jong-yo were given a new apartment in Pyongyang. Soon after the two moved in, a family of six disappeared from their building. Though they lacked a common language, Fujimoto claims he and Jong-yo have always been good at understanding each other. She was the first person to explain the gulags to Fujimoto, telling him “when one person disappears, it is to a re-education farm. He will return someday. When the whole family disappears, it is to a labor camp. None of them will be seen again.”

Last year, the Guardian published a long excerpt from the book Escape from Camp 14, which is unfortunately no longer online. One of the more difficult and maddening things I had read in a long a time.

Excellent mini-documentary about some found World War II footage. Interestingly enough, the footage belonged to the family doctor of my Dad when he was growing up in California.

John Gruber, commenting about Glenn Greenwald’s breaking of the NSA surveillance story:

Brutal. And especially galling from a president who was a constitutional law scholar.

You can almost hear the disappointment in Gruber’s voice, along with the (now lost) innocent belief that Obama actually cares about the Constitution. How cute. And somewhat sad.

“He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.

“Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.”

Everything wrong with unions in three awesome pictures. Vote Union No.

If reading this doesn’t motivate you to have stronger passwords, I don’t know what will.