December 12, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- For-profit colleges caught scamming students lobbied the hell out of the White House and won the day.
- Once more, "Coplandisms" are scoring political commercials.
- Timeline of shady dealings in American campaign finance.
- Republicans object to so-called "millionaires surtax" but can't find millionaires to object for themselves; millionaires found say they don't care.
- So far, Egyptian politics are mostly Islamic, rather than a struggle between religious and secular.
- Fatwas, like the latest one banning women from touching bananas, are becoming ridiculous.
- Remnick goes to Russia to review the resistance.
- British member of parliament in hot water for attending Nazi-themed bachelor party.
- Adam Curtis's enjoyable "The Rise of Geezer Capitalism in Modern Britain."
- Hollywood hires "conlangers" to invent languages, like Dothraki in Game of Thrones.
- Explainer of video-game economics.
- New shopping carts to be enormous, equipped with tracking devices.
- Zipcar CEO says survey finds Millenials "substituting trips on the asphalt highway for trips on the information superhighway."
- The future: Water-powered jetpack turns you into a dolphin.
- Virginia proposes to help pay for residents' burials in space.
- With disgruntled players on every team, the NBA will have basketball this year, but it may be a nuclear winter.
- Frightening: Gary Oldman, dummy.
