This week's signs of the apocalypse

LaBron James says race was a factor in the public backlash over the way he left Cleveland for the Miami.

Gap sells acid-washed, pre-faded blue jeans for toddlers. "This staple is both put-together and fun!"

The guy who invented the Segway died when his Segway rolled off a cliff. (This is so horrible it isn't even funny and does not belong in this silly post).

A story appeared in a major political publication with the subheadline: Ring legend Mick Foley explains how Tori Amos changed his life.

President Obama, in a fawning interview with Jann Wenner in this month's Rolling Stone, kinda sorta admits that his job involves more than just doing the opposite of whatever George W. Bush did; and in so doing reveals that he may have been the least thoughtful presidential nominee in history:

What has surprised you the most about these first two years in office? What advice would you give your successor about the first two years?

Over the past two years, what I probably anticipated but you don't fully appreciate until you're in the job, is something I said earlier, which is if a problem is easy, it doesn't hit my desk. If there's an obvious solution, it never arrives here — somebody else has solved it a long time ago. The issues that cross my desk are hard and complicated, and oftentimes involve the clash not of right and wrong, but of two rights. And you're having to balance and reconcile against competing values that are equally legitimate.