Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Apr 20, 2018

Men (and women)in Uniform:

You don't fool around in the military.
The Air Force Timesreports that a Tennessee Air National Guard colonel who led a re-enlistment ceremony in which a senior non-commissioned officer recited her oath using a dinosaur puppet has been immediately retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was also criticized for not raising his own right hand and reading the oath off a piece of paper instead of having it memorized.
The Master Sergeant who used the puppet was removed from her full-time job with the Tennessee Joint Public Affairs Office and the guy who videotaped the ceremony was also removed from his job as well.
Quotable: "Honestly, I can't even tell if the video is authentic. But if she really was stupid enough to do this then she truly puts the ass in JurASSic." (A-List Comedy)

Fast Food:

No truth to the rumor that Starbucks is offering coupons to black customers offering them free coffee in the follow-up to the recent episode where a Philadelphia outlet denied two black men access to the bathroom on the grounds they were not paying customers.
Newsweekreports the fake coupons --which feature an image claiming that Starbucks values "all people of color"-- are spreading online. "The best dialog starts over a cup of coffee and we'd like to buy you one," one of the coupons reads.
But Starbucks says the coupons are fake.

Smoking or NonSmoking:

Pot-smoking teens may *not* be dooming themselves to a destiny of dim-wittedness. WebMD.com says a new review of research suggests that the memory and thinking abilities of teenagers do not appear to be as strongly affected by heavy marijuana use as previously suspected. What's more, the effects on the brain that do crop up from frequent pot use appear to wear off soon after a teenager stops. The researchers said after 72 hours of abstinence, the memory and thinking deficits of heavy users of marijuana diminishes to the point of insignificance when compared against the intellectual capacity of nonusers. (Bartha)