December 17, 2012: Afternoon
- Newtown recently underwent a civic battle between traditional hunters and assault weapon enthusiasts.
- Liberty entails precisely the freedom to offend. A gun in every pocket would stifle that.
- The gun control that works: no guns. And that will never pass in America.
- What happens when you're Facebook friends with a person mistakenly identified as a killer.
- Comic: "Open Carrying" doesn't stop killers, so maybe it's time to legalize "Open Pointing."
- Chuck Hagel's defense-secretary nomination is a litmus test of the Israel lobby thesis.
- TMN's Kevin Guilfoile on the enduring mystery of Robert Clemente's bat.
- Gerard Depardieu gives up his French passport after the Prime Minister calls him "pathetic" for moving to Belgium.
- Seventy-eight percent of Americans can't name a single living French artist.
- "It probably wouldn't hurt if less Chinese people associated black people with toothpaste."
- For the first time, Monopoly customizes its game design for a city in Africa: Lagos.
- Monopoly is a game designed by a woman, as were many, many more—overview of women in board games.
- See also: Matthew Baldwin's top 10 new board games that make for good gifts.
- Survey of when architects appear in children's books.
- List of the worst business executives of 2012.
- Even the casual football fan knows that the other 21 players on the field impact the outcome of each down, even if she can’t name them all.
- In our last installment of translated Russian fiction: The triple threat Mikhail Shishkin.
- Breakup letters from Simone de Beauvoir, Oscar Wilde, etc.