29 January 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 29 Jan 2010 Professor transcribes al Qaeda tapes, discovers what jihadis eat for breakfast. Harper's Guantánamo piece vs. the Slate takedown. Op: The Constitution is neither safety net for illegal enemy combatants nor suicide pact for us. One out of every 330 people serves in the armed forces. Instapaper for the commute: How the high-school cool kid became a jihadist leader. Gates to Berlusconi: Spend money on poor people, not your hair transplants. Ode to the airport as a blind for human observation (see also: laundromats). Leading alien astronomer complains that humans are making it harder for aliens to hear us. The iPad: it's all about transmissions; men don't get it; it's for consumption, not tinkering; in fact, it's a new ideology. Op: The White House needs to realize that entrepreneurs are everything. Obama to offer tax credit to small companies adding new employees, raising pay, or increasing hours. Gaga as music-business case study: "a full multimedia package." Adichie on Achebe; Times readers on Salinger; Leno on Oprah; Kirstie Alley on privacy. Archive of Salinger stories from the New Yorker; top 10 books written by librarians. Extended taste test of new Domino's pizzas. Blog tracks things you can put in coffee besides cream and sugar. Barns and wagons and lighthouses aren't for everyone. Everything you need to know about birdfeeders. Article titled "Self-described wolf woman severed lost dog's head" is good to the very last line. Headline of the day: "Ashlee Simpson-Wentz Sees the Beauty in Sister Jessica."
