26 January 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 26 Jan 2007 Lawyers ask the Bush administration: Is all this secrecy doing us more harm than it's doing good for anybody? Of course, lawyering is just an alternative to having sex with a dolphin. "She wanted to make all the decisions and stuff. She wanted final cut and everything." Ten-year-old litigates to protect his creative vision. Wired attempts the 40 Big Questions in science; this, like everything else right now, stars John Hodgman. Two former Seton Hall students confess to prank that started a deadly dorm fire in 2000. University of North Carolina inadvertently sends acceptance emails to 2,700 freshmen who won't be going to U.N.C. Canada's intelligence service says a "very rapid process" is transforming some youths from angry activists into jihadist terrorists intent on killing for their religion. San Francisco gives thumbs-down--sounds dirty, doesn't it?--to porn studio on Mission Street. In today's Video Digest, Sarah Hepola admires Rah Dogg's loofah. New York's L train may again go driver-less--and while "robo-trains" sounds cool, doesn't "ghost trains" sound cooler? Marketing to the poor as long as there's poor to market to--except childhood poverty costs the economy $500 billion a year. Slot machine mistakenly issues jackpot--ex-winner is awarded two trips to the buffet in lieu of $102,000 payout.
