Turkmenistan is closing the gates of hell, which happens to be located in the Karakum Desert . . . Reuters.

The world’s ten most amazing sinkholes . . . Factoidz

Dan Neil reports: “To be seen driving a minivan is to admit to a kind of shameful domesticity, an existence of postsexual nullity and a state of parental slavery, ever orbiting from school, to grocery store, to ballet lessons, to games, like some suburban Flying Dutchman. However, as the father of twin 3-year-olds, I have never suffered from minivan embarrassment. After all, nothing says “stud” quite like a minivan.” . . . The Wall Street Journal