Your customized headlines for Sat, Apr 7, 2012

As most Americans basked in the warmest, sunniest March in half a century, economists stared at the skies with dread:

Could good weather portend bad news for the economic recovery?

Economists say the mild winter has artificially inflated job growth. February alone stole as many as 72,000 positions from March and future months, according to Macroeconomic Advisers.

The wreckage left by the housing collapse is well known: The unemployment rate in the construction industry is more than17 percent. About 1.4 million workers in the field are unemployed.

So: Are unemployed construction workers worse off than the rest of the jobless?

A brand of baby bicycle seats sold at popular retail outlets such as REI was recalled this week after the federal government learned that two children nearly had their fingers amputated because of the product's design.

Ask oil lobbyists, oil executives, and former employees and board members of the American Petroleum Institute how they describe API President Jack N. Gerard, and one thing they don't say is soft. One calls him a "hard-nosed guy." Another says he is "a political animal" who "loves a fight." Yet another dubs him "Voldemort."

As most Americans basked in the warmest, sunniest March in half a century, economists stared at the skies with dread:

Could good weather portend bad news for the economic recovery?

Economists say the mild winter has artificially inflated job growth. February alone stole as many as 72,000 positions from March and future months, according to Macroeconomic Advisers.

— A very cool visualization of conducting music.

— Jack White apparently stores the master recordings of his music in a climate-controlled vault with a biometric scanner.

— Jonathan Chait takes on "pseudo-outrage."

Some remarkable reporting from Rachel Maddow and her team on how the Republicans who control Michigan's House of Representatives are accessing emergency powers by pretending to have a supermajority they don't really possess. Things get really shocking at about 9:20.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan stopped by Marquette University this week and gave students some insight into, how, exactly, she and her colleagues decide what they will rule on a given case. The nine justices step into a conference room and, in higher-profile cases, they've voiced their votes in less than 10 minutes.