22 June 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 22 Jun 2010 Giant diamond find in Zimbabwe, long looted by Mugabe's ministers, challenges the anti-conflict-stones Kimberly Process. McChrystal receives unhappy calls from his bosses after Rolling Stone runs story of his unhappiness. To fight falling birth rate, Taiwan fosters matches between civil servants, sends ministry employees home to baby-make. Just because chimpanzees have waged war for thousands of years doesn't mean we will too. Op: Weak states lack ways to block the advancement of kleptocrats, psychopaths, and tyrants. Pakistani lawyer calls for the death of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Spanish media blasts Brits for inventing story about Spanish goalkeeper's distracting girlfriend reporter. Op: Soccer's "nationalist feelings" are why violent religious extremists find the sport so threatening. Convincing evidence that Manute Bol created the phrase, "my bad." Examples from 100 years of scoreboards. Video: Jacques Lacan in one minute; filmmaker accepts Herzog's challenge to walk from Madrid to Kiev. 1985 Sunday-morning Nicholson Baker letter to John Updike. One author's solution to impersonal book dedications: faking them. Instapaper: The making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville. Pages from an X-rated X-ray pin-up calendar.
