FINAL LOOK: ‘Life-threatening’ winter storm to hit the Midwest

Brett Michael Dykes
·National Affairs Reporter

Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment:

• The National Weather Service calls the latest winter storm to hit the Midwest a potentially "life-threatening" one, with forecasts of 18-foot Lake Michigan waves assaulting Chicago's shores. (Sun Times)

• The effort by some House Republicans to redefine rape is raising plenty of eyebrows. (Mother Jones)

• Some feel it's time for the government to start regulating Facebook. (The Awl)

• Might the U.S. government be the country's most notorious slumlord? (ABC)

• Infamous former Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater says that people are always trying to get him to slide into things. (New York Magazine)

• TV's "Most Interesting Man in the World" is, well, kind of interesting. (New Yorker)