Harper's Weekly for Sept. 14, 2010

Like always, the latest Harper's Weekly email newsletter is loaded with choice items about the world's weirdest animal.

A 90-year-old man who
bludgeoned his 89-year-old wife to death with a hammer
after 68 years of marriage was sentenced to 17 years in
prison, and a man at a mobile-home park in Kentucky shot
his wife, stepdaughter, two neighbors, and then himself,
after his wife did not cook his eggs to his liking. "I
have to admit, a little grin came across my face when I
saw his brains go flying," said neighbor Steve
Smith. "He's been trouble ever since he's been here."

Harper's Weekly for Sept. 14, 2010