The scientist who created the CRISPR babies is facing execution.

Bill Gates has devoted his later life to eradicating poverty on Earth, and his success has been nothing short of breathtaking. It seems ironic that the world’s richest man (since Jeff Bezos suddenly became worth half as much on Tuesday) would be so concerned with inequality, but here we are. And he’s right.

Worried about being buried in student loans? Fret not, some schools will let you attend for free and then just take points on the back end. In the immortal words of Morty Smith, “That just sounds like slavery with extra steps.”

Most football fans I know, myself included, have at least a grudging respect for how the Patriots organization is run. And there’s no argument that Tom Brady isn’t among the best to ever play the game. But even Tom Brady himself isn’t immune to believing his own press. This year it cost him.

Maybe it’s just me, but this doesn’t seem like a super efficient way to get coffee.

So this is weird. The North pole is shifting (some movement in the poles each year is perfectly normal), but lately the North pole’s movement has accelerated so quickly that the US Navy and commercial shippers have requested an emergency update to the navigational maps. And no one knows what’s causing it.

Here in New Orleans, we like taking risks. We eat too much and drink too much and shoot each other too much and indulge in a vast array of departures from normative behavior. One such departure is the deliberate insertion of a hidden choking hazard into a style of cake we consume almost daily for 6-8 weeks of each year. If this sounds preposterous, let me also point out that this specific choking hazard is a small plastic baby, and he’s naked.

Well, Facebook is having none of it, and that’s one more reason to tell Facebook to go jump in the lake. Laissez les bon temps roulez!

My oldest son is getting his drivers license this year, so of course we’re faced with the prospect of adding another vehicle to our fleet at some point. Or maybe not. I’m fairly persuaded by Mr. Wonderful’s viewpoint here.

Susan Wojcicki is brilliant and would have been successful at anything she set her mind to. But who knew what would happen when she rented her garage to two Stanford doctoral students for $1,700 a month back in 1998?

Guess who’s smoking bath salts again?