20 May 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 20 May 2010 Analysis of North Korea's trigger-finger and what it means if it was (or wasn't) Kim Jong Il's. Lucid summary of recent Thai political history. America is carrying out a robot war 7,000 miles away; laws have not kept up with technological progress. Why Russia has always been the "part of the European jigsaw puzzle that didn't fit." Pakistan bans Facebook after "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" (Facebook page here). Saudi woman attacks religious cop after questioning proves too much for her boyfriend. JP Morgan "demystifies quant models" by predicting England to win the 2010 World Cup (UBS's picks). "Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter." Editor-in-chief criticizes some journalists' tweets for impugning Bloomberg's integrity. Marijuana use often fills users with the self-illusion of creativity. Slate calls foul on Times pot-cuisine trend story. Study finds smoking and drinking prevent depression, but still lead to early death. Web-less cartoonist James Sturm asks students to explain their relationship with the Internet in comics. Drawings of shopping carts. The Rumpus starts book club where members read advance copies, formerly only available to media outlets. LeBron's co-author: to avoid "a false sense of invincibility," Akron's god should leave home. Parallel readings of Dickens's Great Expectations and People.com's Tiger Woods. Girl Talk's Feed the Animals rendered visually with shoppable samples.
