December 19, 2012: Morning
- Obama to announce that Biden will lead the effort to reform gun laws.
- NRA announces major press conference in DC for Friday.
- First funerals in Newtown.
- White House behavioral analysis as Obama chooses how to address Sandy, Latino turnout, and Newtown.
- "Putin’s Arms Dealers Are Selling More Weapons to More Dirtbags Than Ever."
- States spend money on prisons these days, not universities, and suddenly the great public schools are out of reach.
- Eagle tries to steal baby.
- See also: The internet's greatest amusements from 2012.
- Time picks top photographic magazine covers of the year.
- Technology recommender Brian Lam finds profits on the web from affiliates, not ads.
- A note you don't want to receive after denting someone's car while holiday shopping.
- In light of holiday travel, techniques assessed for fighting motion sickness.
- A surer path to happiness than New Year's resolutions is to deliberately have a mediocre day at work.
- TMN writers and readers recommend cures for the common cold.
- History of pizza coverage in the New Yorker magazine.
- Man makes art by bleeding out magic markers with his face.