Daily Briefs: Return of the Jump Tuesday

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When I used to live in a fourth-story apartment, I thought that a cool invention would be a charcoal grill that you mount outside your window frame so that you could enjoy the delicious, smoky flavor of meat slow-cooked over compressed briquettes of petroleum waste without any need for a patio. The obvious disadvantage is that a window-mounted grill might fall out of the window and plunge four stories into somebody’s baby carriage, incurring the wrath of consumer safety watchdogs. Still, the superiority of my imaginary invention over the real-life boxer-endorsed dual-press grill is obvious. But I present to you the unfulfilled promise of the window-mounted charcoal grill as my credential for genius, a rhetorical tactic called the “appeal to authority,” hoping that it will entice you to click through the jump to the day’s news roundup, which includes sports journalism about the Talladega Speedway and tips to avoid a mortgage-related confidence scam. Click here or on this award they gave me: