December 13, 2013
#Sidney's Picks: Lobotomies; Big Tobacco; Justin Timberlake's Union Tour
The Best of the Week’s News
- The Wall Street Journal delves into VA files on lobotomies performed on World War 2 veterans.
- How Big Tobacco fights anti-smoking laws worldwide.
- A judge gave a drunk-driving teen a reduced sentence for killing four people because he supposedly suffered from “affluenza,” meaning that he was too privileged to know right from wrong.
- Justin Timerlake’s big fat union tour.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]