21 June 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 21 Jun 2011 First time in two months, Assad addresses Syria seeking "dialogue," and opposition groups convene. Assad's image pelted with shoes after speech. Polls show American voters still prejudiced against Mormon political candidates. Obama impersonator yanked offstage during GOP conference for racially insensitive material, or for mocking GOPers? U.S. government formally drops terror charges against Bin Laden. According to Gingrich: "the opposite of freedom" = "natural secular European socialist." How the transition might go, roughly speaking, if Greece left the euro. Big review of America's mental illness epidemic and the psychoactive drug market. Video: Ingmar Bergman's soap commercials. Errol Morris investigates whether his brother invented email. Obama has begun writing his own tweets (on occasion). I tried calling my dad, but he's not currently on Earth right now. Gmail users upset about "call dad" reminder. New unvarnished biography of Malcolm X "pulls away the curtain to show us the entirety of his life, and the emperor remains clothed." Video: "Everything is a Remix" (part 3). Former practice partner of Lendl's plays tennis with inmates at San Quentin, most of them very polite murderers. When we get up too early and stay up too late, some days feel like this.
