Changing Times Chap. 632: Spring brings baseball brings renewed visibility to racist names - Braves, Indians, Chief Wahoo - increasingly deemed unacceptable in polite society. Recently, both the Navajo Nation and U.N. joined the fight against "Redskins," Texas schools changed four team names, and a study found national teams with offensive names lose millions a year in revenue. Also, this happened: At Opening Day for the Cleveland Indians, a gaudy painted clueless fan met up with the 1,000-yard stare of Chiricahua Apache Robert Roche, leading the annual protest against the Indians' grotesque mascot “Chief Wahoo.” Has any photo better captured why this is not okay?

Citing the "grim math" of 86 Americans killed by guns every day, Michael Bloomberg has announced a new $50 million, grassroots gun control initiative that hopes to adopt the same strategic tools utilized by the NRA - money, organizing, political pressure and the targeting of single-issue voters - to take it down. While the polarizing Bloomberg may not be the best front man for the umbrella group, called Everytown for Gun Safety, it's already put up a slick website and released a stomach-churningly powerful video. Not a moment too soon. In one of today's 86 shootings, a four-year-old Pennsylvania boy shot his two-year-old brother in the face.

Ever more appalling economic news, with the AFL-CIO's 2014 Executive PayWatch tracking CEO pay - average $11.7 million - now 331 times what the average worker makes, and 774 times that of minimum wage workers, the world's largest pay gap. Using interactive graphics and data on 100 top companies, it contrasts, say, the WalMart CEO's $20,693,545 pay with the $12,000 earned by a full-time worker - who on average earned her company $41,249 in profits. Elsewhere, the news is just as bad: Palo Alto now has a law making it a crime for the homeless to sleep in a parked car, Oklahoma has one banning cities from raising minimum wages or enacting paid sick days, and The Onion says members of al-Qaeda are, thanks to all these morally and practically untenable economic policies, plotting to "sit back and enjoy themselves while America collapses of its own accord."