August 3, 2011: Morning
- Saudi lawmakers create "blistering array" of punishments for anyone "harming the interests of the state."
- Tennessee introduces bill to punish "material support" for Islamic law.
- Italy calls emergency talks as market pressure sucks it deeper into euro danger zone.
- Novelist Richard Powers reports from teaching in Berlin.
- Former sawmill town in Oregon sees 20% of residents growing medical marijuana.
- Wonderful USA Today commentary on everyday (secular) morality.
- Former staffer claims 80% of Gingrich's million-plus Twitter followers were purchased.
- Mash note to the $118,000 camera used to film Shark Week's slow-motion videos.
- Video: Action Bronson eats at a New York edible-animals festival.
- Related video: 2nd Avenue subway construction worker sings during lunch break.
- Reporter flies to Tahiti in 1987.
- Suburban arterials cover less than 10% of America's roads, but 48% of its vehicle-miles traveled.
- Funeral-planning websites seek following, but wonder if "an innovative social marketplace" is a good idea.
- Recent Zuckerberg court decision raising eyebrows in tiny forensic linguistic community.