18 March 2011: Weekend By The Morning News — 18 Mar 2011 Security Council votes to authorize military action, and France leads charge; Gadhafi pledges no mercy. Live BBC stream of West/Arab League intervention in Libya. Egypt arming Libyan rebels; rebels somehow also launching fighter-jet attacks. "Obama joked about Clinton lobbing rocks through his window" to push for moving against Gadhafi. Op: The world must win this fight; if Gadhafi prevails, it means violence pays. Japan upgrades nuclear crisis to level 5, same as Three Mile Island; Chernobyl was a 7. It's just as hard for the avant garde in Japan as it is for the avant garde here. John Zorn discusses upcoming benefits for Japan. Survey finds the super rich are lonely, they dread holidays, and they're expected to give incredible gifts. House votes to cut all NPR funding. I won't allow my daughter to marry into a home without toilets. Women punished across urban India by lack of toilets. Long read: Fascinating tale of two stoners selling arms from Florida, winning big government contracts, and shipping inferior goods. Excerpt from Philip Connors's fire-watcher's memoir, requiring a talent for sloth. The cab driver's homespun wisdom is borne out by geopolitical developments. List of popular endings to New York Times pieces. Ode to filing cabinets past and present, networks of the mind. Audio: "Fingerprints on Trial"--research challenging the infallibility of fingerprint evidence. The story of the black gentrifier is often a story about being simultaneously invisible and self-conscious. Ten unusual things you didn't know about Backrub Google. Photographic guide to the new ruins of Britain; notes on cemetery design; original reporting from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Pictures from American shopping malls in 1990.
