Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

       Hey, did you read:

  • That Congress is showing increasing signs of openness to legalizing marijuana? —Mick Dumke

• That Sandra Bland’s family is filing a lawsuit against the Texas police officers who arrested her? —Drew Hunt

• About the need for a better definition of depression? —Aimee Levitt • That Yoshi Katsumura, the chef of the great Lakeview restaurant Yoshi’s, has died? —Tal Rosenberg

• That we have the United States Army to thank for the McRib and untold amounts of other disgusting, industrialized “foods”? —Drew Hunt

• The deeply disappointing news that a story about Florida dopers selling golden tickets to Heaven (to subsidize their own trip through outer space to Stevie’s planet of drugs) is false? —Tony Adler