From Harper’s Weekly Review:<\/p>\n
The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, learned how to fill a pothole; the mayor of New York City announced that the city had filled more than 100,000 potholes since he took office in January; and in Johannesburg, South Africa, a 75-year-old candidate for mayor snorkeled in a giant pothole to highlight city-management failures.<\/em><\/p>\n It was reported that the U.S. health secretary once castrated a dead raccoon so that he could \u201cstudy\u201d its genitalia; a municipal judge in Alabama acquitted a woman of all charges after she was arrested for wearing a penis costume to a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally in October; and nearly 100 naked men ran through the streets of Trondheim, Norway.<\/em><\/p>\n A University of Madison researcher confessed to using chemicals from his lab to poison a colleague, citing his \u201cpet peeves,\u201d including the victim\u2019s failure to wear a lab coat and goggles, as motivation; a 25-year-old man in Tennessee pleaded guilty and apologized in court for accessing government systems with stolen credentials and then bragging about the crime online on an account named \u201cihackedthegovernment\u201d; a Florida doctor was indicted for second-degree manslaughter after accidentally removing a man\u2019s liver instead of his spleen; and during a court hearing in England, a man explained that he had shoved a woman off her bicycle and over a seawall because he \u201cthought it would be funny.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Harper’s Weekly Review: The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, learned how to fill a pothole; the mayor of New York City announced that the city had filled more than 100,000 potholes since he took office in January; and in Johannesburg, … Continue reading