After a night of riots in Baltimore, schools are closed, games have been postponed, at least a thousand National Guard soldiers are roaming the streets, and America is left once again to ponder issues of race, inequality, law enforcement, and civic unrest.

+ InFocus: Images of unrest in Baltimore.

+ WaPo's Michael A. Fletcher on the murder, drugs, and poverty that plague Freddie Grey's Baltimore: "Most of these problems are confined to the pockmarked neighborhoods of narrow rowhomes and public housing projects on the city's east and west sides. They exist in the lives of the other Baltimore of renovated waterfront homes, tree-lined streets, sparkling waterfront views, rollicking bars and ethnic restaurants mainly through news reports. The two worlds bump up against one another only on occasion."

+ Vox: In Freddie Gray's Baltimore neighborhood, half of the residents don't have jobs.

+ Last night my mom wondered aloud why we still don't seem to know many of the details when it comes to Gray's death. Well mom, the answer is LEOBoR, or the law enforcement officers bill of rights. From The Marshall Project: Blue Shield.

In a statement today, President Obama made two key points. On the use of excessive force by police: "We as a country have to do some soul searching. This is not new. It's been going on for decades." And on the rioters in Baltimore: "They're not protesting, they're not making a statement, they're stealing." (Any article or media outlet that presents only one of these two points is a joke.)

+ David Simon makes a similar point: "There was real power and potential in the peaceful protests that spoke in Mr. Gray's name initially, and there was real unity at his homegoing today. But this, now, in the streets, is an affront to that man's memory and a dimunition of the absolute moral lesson that underlies his unnecessary death."

"You're not seeking to join the institution, you're seeking to change the institution." So said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a historic gay marriage case.

+ You can listen to the oral arguments here.

"We had an official bulletin last night, telling people that it was OK for them to return home and sleep indoors tonight. Shortly after that bulletin went out, we had a 4.8 aftershock. So, things still very much evolving here -- and a lot of scared and nervous people." NPR with the latest from the grim scene in Nepal: Death Toll Tops 5,000; At Least 1.4 Million Need Food Aid.

+ "As the flames spread across her chest, the body burner heaped straw atop her corpse, sending bluish smoke billowing into the sky over the white stupas of the Pashupatinath temple." Julie Makinen in the LA Times: A river burns with Hindu funeral pyres almost around the clock.

"Quickly the house was flooded by cops in riot gear and black masks, weapons at the ready. There was Green, covered in cocaine and flanked by two Chihuahuas." In Wired, the excellent Joshua Bearman with the untold story of Silk Road: How a 29 year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.

"It is no secret that Mayweather works with beautiful precision -- that he is a sweet scientist. And it is no secret that Mayweather has been accused of seven separate assaults against five different women that led to citation or arrest." Grantland's Louisa Thomas on the boxer and the batterer: can we separate the athlete from the abuser? (I'm a major sports fan, but you have to put a whole lot of issues out of your mind to let this fight in.)

+ Planning to show or watch the big fight in a public place like a bar or restaurant? Then you better watch out for the pay-per-view police.

Diet Pepsi is getting rid of aspartame. Chipotle is going GMO-free. Your shelves are lined with gluten-free products. These trends could have to do more with pleasing consumers than with making them more healthy. And that makes commercial sense, since people don't know what's healthy.

+ "Consider that a Glutino Original New York Style Bagel has 26 percent more calories, 250 percent more fat, 43 percent more sodium, 50 percent less fiber and double the sugar of a Thomas' Plain Bagel." Newshour with the blunt reality is that many gluten-free foods are not healthier. (If you're consuming plain bagels from either Thomas' or Glutino, it's time for an intervention.)

+ NYT Magazine: Why 'Natural' doesn't mean anything anymore. "Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it's natural in all likelihood is not."

+ Tyson Foods is going to stop giving chickens antibiotics used by humans.

"This is the picture. Don't come at me with other pictures, thinking they're better. Because they're not. This is it." Rembert Browne going way too deep down the rabbit hole with Nicki Minaj's recent bar mitzvah appearance. (My parents tried to get Barry Manilow to perform at my bar mitzvah.)

+ Rabbi Minaj admonished the bar mitzvah boy to "Get an education. Stay in school. And don't be a bum." She then asked him how old he was...

Bud Light admits they may have "missed the mark" with the tagline now featured on some of their bottles: "The perfect beer for removing 'no' from your vocabulary for the night." (Anheuser-Busch needs to reintroduce 'no' into their tagline brainstorm sessions.)

Potholes in Manchester, England seem to get repaired a lot faster after a local vigilante draws pictures around them with chalk. What does he draw? Let's put it this way. He goes by the name Wanksy.

+ Pricenomics: The rise and fall of the hotel mini-bar.

+ A Texas A&M professor quit his job, but not before failing his entire class.

+ The best and worst fonts to use on your resume.