7 June 2011: Afternoon By The Morning News — 07 Jun 2011 Bahrain's campaign to humiliate and torture Shiites meets American silence. British intelligence claims success for Operation Cupcake, disrupting al Qaeda's PDF capabilities. Ash falls like snow in Argentina, blown across the Andes from Chile's volcanoes. Map shows every disaster declared emergency by FEMA since 1953. Op: China and India will soon be Earth's biggest economies; the world cannot take that much consumption. Yemeni president's severe injuries and burns likely to prevent him from returning to power. Quiz: Match the president to his baby portrait. Peter Diamond, Nobel winner whose Fed confirmation is being stalled, has something to say. Audio: Dubstep Symphony. Secret history of the Phantom Ray, Boeing's combat drone. History of ultraviolence in films shows trend headed toward more violence. Kiss-off notes from journalists to their bosses. Faux-prah: "I Just Want to Say That I Hated Every Moment of That Piece-of-Shit Show." Psychiatric tales done in comics: "Murderer's Eyes." Bolaño's reading list for modern Spanish and other literature. Q&A with Lorin Stein on rabbi jokes, religion in America, and if The Paris Review is WASPy. Jokes prove wrong some theories about why we laugh.