24 May 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 24 May 2010 Kandahar 1989, 1996, and Kandahar now--still centuries from Western civilization. The Gates-Clinton axis: D.C.'s "only important center of gravity outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue." Video: Farmers turn Paris's Champs-Elysees green. Documents find Israel offering to sell South Africa nuclear warheads in 1975. Op: The U.S. has 5,113 nuclear weapons; 311 is all we need. Chicago's Mayor Daley defends gun ban with joke about sodomizing a reporter with a rifle. Instapaper: How Obama (maybe) found the sweet spot between Main Street and Wall Street. Worse than lawsuits and workforce losses, American Apparel may be falling out of fashion. The more inegalitarian the society, the more people compete with each other and the more brands invest in advertisement. High school geometry used to calculate oil spill's leak as vastly greater than BP has admitted. Study: Loss rate of teaspoons in an Australian research institute. RIP Martin Martdner, puzzler and polymath, dead at 95. Neurological surgeon recommends dying from having lived, not having lived on a ventilator in a CCU. Full text of Heidi Montag's prayer to God prior to undergoing 10 plastic-surgery procedures in a single day. How Harriet Beecher Stowe is connected to Pablo Picasso.
