20 April 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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"It is easy for a young person to become a pirate." In Somalia, pirates are akin to ganglords who can overpower locals with money, force.
J.G. Ballard, author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, dies at age 78.
Today's long read: After seven years of Islamic conservatism--though not extremism--militant secularists in Turkey lose ground, game the system.
Not surprisingly, the Baghdadis' drug of choice is Valium, the colonel said. Vices return to Iraq.
Foreign Policy wonders what would happen if Texas seceded, thinks it's going to need a military first.
Chávez gifts Obama with a copy of Eduardo Galeano's attack on imperialism, Open Veins of Latin America.
The books, they write me. They decide, they decide everything. I am just their tool. Birnbaum chats with Galeano.
Dennis Mahoney chat with Penny, Chatterbot.
"Conversations I'll someday have with my daughter that will make little to no sense to her no matter how much I try to explain."
Examples of J. Peterman clothing stories gone right--or at least, gone different.
Sci-fi architecture proposed to halt desertification includes a 3D printer made of bacteria that maps new landscapes over millenia.
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