1 February 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 01 Feb 2010 Fifty years ago today, the lunch counter sit-in movement began in Greensboro, N.C. "New triumphalist attitude" from Beijing worrying analysts; hubris and insecurity driving behavior. Osama criticizes the world for relying on the dollar and being too slow to respond to climate change. Paulson says Russia approached China to disrupt the U.S. economy by selling its Fannie and Freddie bonds. Putin appoints pop singer to parliament. Why more and more scientists who study depression will say that "antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs." Instapaper for the commute: Jon Lee Anderson in Haiti. Boylan: Salinger was that perverse author who yearned to be ignored. He liked living in New Hampshire, but he often found fun and relief by coming down to New York. Lillian Ross on her friendship with Salinger. Ethan Hawke as role model for Zac Efron should he wish to go serious. Op: Americans insist on being nasty and disappointed despite constant examples of wonder, tragedy, progress. The scientific explanation of why rich people are assholes: because they're isolated. We spend more time talking about what we think we'll think than what we thought. Social media + mass culture = inexhaustible build-up. Video: Comedian attacks myth about New Yorkers' unfriendliness by being carried the length of Manhattan.
