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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Friday, March 01, 2013 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Matthew Yglesias Sequestration Is Here: Don't Expect Anything To Happen Friday, March 01, 2013, at 9:02 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees His Holiness Spent His First Night of Retirement Watching Himself on Television Friday, March 01, 2013, at 10:28 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Mitt Romney's First Post-Election Interview Is an Emotional Roller Coaster (Metaphor) Friday, March 01, 2013, at 10:04 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees If You Do the "Harlem Shake" on a Plane, the Feds Will Investigate It Friday, March 01, 2013, at 10:53 AM EST   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Fla. Man Feared Dead After Disappearing Into Massive Sinkhole Friday, March 01, 2013, at 10:38 AM EST   Blog | David Weigel Congress Neuters Itself, for America Friday, March 01, 2013, at 9:17 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Obama Urges SCOTUS To Strike Down Prop 8 Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 4:03 PM EST   Politics | David Weigel The Sequester Superhero Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 6:50 PM EST Why the Republican Party's sequestration strategy only makes Obama stronger.   OnEarth | Jeff Turrentine Obama Will Abolish the Suburbs? Friday, March 01, 2013, at 7:33 AM EST The Agenda 21 conspiracy to "wipe out freedoms of all U.S. citizens."   Blog | Chris Wade and Slate V Staff USDA To Rain Death From Above on Tree Snakes of Guam Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 6:15 PM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Don't Blame Andrew Mason, The Daily Deal Business Model Just Doesn't Work Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 5:47 PM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Slatest PM: The "Girls Gone Bankrupt" Edition Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 5:20 PM EST   Future Tense | Ryan Gallagher Details Revealed on Secret U.S. "Ragtime" Domestic Surveillance Program Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 4:39 PM EST   Blog | Alyssa Rosenberg Good News for Female Magazine Editors: The Pay Gap Is Narrowing Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 4:08 PM EST   Books | Matthew Kirschenbaum The Book-Writing Machine Friday, March 01, 2013, at 10:30 AM EST What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?   The Slate Quiz | Ken Jennings Play the Slate News Quiz Friday, March 01, 2013, at 12:00 AM EST With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.   BEST FEATURED STORIES The NBA's Obsession With Complicated Statistics Is Ruining the Sport The Company That's Guilt-Tripping Consumers Into Using Less Energy Help! My Boyfriend Sucks on His Baby Blanket When He Thinks I'm Asleep. Did Mammoths Go Extinct on Their Own, or Did Early Humans Kill Them Off?   Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend