8 January 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 08 Jan 2009 With legislators still deadlocked on budget plans, California faces "fiscal Armageddon." Five to Instapaper: Five economists who called the crisis on what comes next. Big Picture selections from the Gaza Strip. The longer the challenge of removing West Bank settlements is evaded, the more overwhelming it becomes. Excellent 2006 map from the London Times of "Shrinking Palestine." What you don't know about Gaza may be contained in this article. AP Gaza reporter loses apartment, mosque, city, and life to shelling. Today's must-read: Proportionality doesn't play in the Middle East when neither side is prepared to include the other in its suffering. Moral conundrum: Is it wrong to keep Viagra use a secret? Facebook accused of supporting mob bosses by allowing them profiles from jail. Barney Frank: Synthesizing Hegel, acting congressman for gay America. How to break into Bollywood as an extra; how to break into a Bollywood poster. What it's like to watch Bollywood pictures in Mumbai. Stunning video: Dead poets re-animated, reading their poems.
