What we read while disqualifying ourselves from the Masters…
- 42, the movie about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier, opened this weekend. Roger Angell and Joe Posnanski look back at Robinson’s legacy.
- Jonah Keri breaks down last week’s Dodgers-Padres brawl.
- McClatchy reports on the Obama Administration’s use of drones against “unknown” targets, exposing the lies the CIA and White House officials have told the public.
- A report on the OCC’s foreclosure review details the fraud behind the lackluster settlement obtained for Americans whose homes have been illegally seized by banks.
- Margaret Thatcher, the influential Prime Minister who changed Great Britain, backed apartheid, and helped support dictators all across the world, died at the age of 87.
- Also dying last week: Gus Triandos. David Simon discusses how Gus came to be mentioned on The Wire.
- A look back at Earth Day and the environmental movement.
- Why wasn’t the Super Mario Bros. movie a hit?
- Congress wants to protect Israel’s right to discriminate against Americans.
- The fake story of when Dickens met Dostoevsky.
- A chart of college nicknames.
No Pun Intended 
