December 17, 2012: Morning
- Obama: "Are we really prepared to say we are powerless in the face of such carnage?"
- Bloomberg: "If [Obama] does nothing during his second term, something like 48,000 Americans will be killed with illegal guns."
- Round-up of the best reporting on guns in America.
- The fear of the NRA is so engrained in American politics that the group doesn't actually have to be successful in punishing gun control advocates anymore.
- Essay by Idaho mother of a very troubled child: "I Am Adam Lanza's Mom."
- This past Friday in China, a man stabbed 22 children at a village elementary school.
- Twenty contemporary advertisements for guns.
- Photographs of the year in volcanic activity.
- Thanks to a 1974 marketing campaign, Christmas in Japan isn't complete without a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
- History and psychology behind Britain's Christmas-time Black Magic chocolates.
- Ian Frazier: Thanks to technology, the days of exaggerated travel writing are finished.
- Profile of the life and times of Trigger, Willie Nelson's guitar.
- Hollywood elite says the funniest, nicest, best of them all is Martin Short.
- Mumford and Sons can't believe they all got each other mandolins for Christmas.
- Finalists and winners for best shots played in tennis this year.