Roundup: Cop Pulls Gun at McDonald's Drive-Thru, Man Beaten for Taking Grocery Store Samples & a Sinkhole in Chicago
By Jason McIntyre
If you went to bed early, you missed a lot. The two Boston Marathon bombers – who are brothers, according to one report – killed an MIT security guard, carjacked someone, and then got in a shootout with police. One is dead. [Slate, Wash Post]
This guy ran the Boston Marathon, the flew home to Texas, where he was driving and witnessed the fertilizer blast in Waco. [AP]
Mike Silver’s ultimate Mock Draft has Matt Ryan going 2nd. [Yahoo]
Not surprising, but the Cleveland Cavaliers fired coach Byron Scott. [Beacon Journal]
John Wall doesn’t really deserve a max contract, columnist says. [Washington Post]
CJ Wilcox, Washington’s best player, is staying in school. [Seattle Times]
The Crumbling Case for Austerity Economics. [New Yorker]
‘Ghetto Spirit Day’ just sounds like an awful idea. [City Pages]
Meet the two immigrant runners wrongly fingered as “possible suspects” in the Boston Marathon bombing. [TSG]
Next time you try to take free food samples out of the grocery store, remember what happened to this dude. [Star Tribune]
Notre Dame inked a 10-year extension with NBC. [NBC Universal]
Boy am I going into the wrong elevators.
Politician says “jew me down on a price.” [Talking Points Memo]