I smoked pot with David Brooks  —  Please note: What follows here is satire of the Juvenalian variety.  I thought I embedded enough tipoffs, but then again I forgot how much stranger than fiction truth can be.  So to those who thought it was real and suffered pain as a result, I apologize.

Repeat After Me, David Brooks: Repealing Prohibition Is Not the Same As Endorsing the Previously Prohibited Activity  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks has a piece out about pot in which he confesses that, “For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I smoked marijuana,” but “then we all sort of moved away from it.”

No, Kim Jong Un probably didn't feed his uncle to 120 hungry dogs  —  If you've been on the Internet at all today, you've almost certainly seen the story claiming that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had his uncle executed last month by stripping him naked and feeding him to 120 hungry dogs.

Kim Jong-Un killed his ‘scum’ uncle by stripping him naked, throwing him into a cage and leaving him to be eaten alive by a pack of 120 starving dogs  —  North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un sentenced his uncle to be eaten alive by a pack of 120 wild dogs in a savage punishment for treachery, it has been claimed.

FACT SHEET: Strengthening the Federal Background Check System to Keep Guns out of Potentially Dangerous Hands  —  Today, the Administration is announcing two new executive actions that will help strengthen the federal background check system and keep guns out of the wrong hands.