December 6, 2012: Afternoon
- To China, the United States appears much as Great Britain did to Americans two centuries ago.
- Obama's data director assures Americans he's not Big Brother.
- AOL's history told through New York Times crossword clues.
- Today in odd news: Apparently, Kim Jong-Il had a Palestinian foster daughter.
- Brubeck and his quartet burning through some of their hottest numbers.
- Dave Brubeck mainstreamed jazz while earning the respect of fellow musicians, including the uncompromising Miles Davis.
- TMN's Alexander Chee's year in reading.
- Saying "no" to a log cabin in the woods, I decided, was tantamount to saying "no" to life itself.
- The world's greatest hoodie was created using Apple know-how and is made—profitably—in the USA.
- The 1975 Christmas episode of the Bob Newhart Show hits the standard holiday notes, but reveals what made the series so special.
- The new workplace reality shows focus on rewarding the hard-working, rather than firing the unworthy.
- Related: When the first season of The Apprentice moved into a Brooklyn apartment, the neighbors were privy to the unreality.
- Bedbugs find a new place to dwell: library books.