December 8, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- China on climate change: bumbling, probably devious, and definitely confusing.
- Letter from inside Damascus.
- Costco shows what Americans want to buy: milk, eggs, and diamond rings.
- Giving a kidney to a stranger shouldn't be applauded or considered heroic—it should be worth money.
- Kurt Anderson on contemporary style's refusal to try anything new.
- Hitchens: The phrase "whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is stupid.
- Story of why Air France 447 crashed: simple but persistent mistake on the part of one of the pilots.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on the need for more Civil War scholarship by African-Americans.
- For Branford Marsalis, moving from New York to Durham, NC, was "a self-punishing trip to the woodshed" to perfect his craft and go avant-garde.
- Kyra Sedgwick and The Closer praised for revamping the police procedural.
- Since I am not alone in my shoe fetish, I have concluded that shoes are... an index to civilization.
- Enormous collection of miniature books.
- Web comic: Three Word Phrase.
- Tintinologist explains what makes Tintin comics special, and why Hergé spilled beans on himself.
- Latest update to David Hill's "Fading the Vig," in which he attempts to count cards at Foxwoods.
