January 10, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Violence escalates in Syria; Al-Assad blames foreign powers, Arab critics, and "60 televisions stations."
- Wonkette on our new "Consumer Chief."
- Switzerland's Libyan nightmare is over; Hannibal Gadhafi, terrorizer of hotels, is believed to be in Algeria.
- Krugman reconsiders Japan—responding to our own crisis, we're doing worse.
- Playing "count the volunteers" at Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich headquarters in New Hampshire.
- Red State's "In Conclusion" memo for New Hampshire.
- Art shows to see this week in Houston, Lisbon, Chicago, New York City.
- London remapped with song titles for street names.
- New letters from Joseph Roth show him to be bad with money, annoying, aggravating, and a genius.
- New Downton Abbey recapped with commentary and notable quotes.
- Man confused about Downton Abbey.
- Illustrated review of War Horse.
- YouTube has grown up fast, but it still can't get people to spend more than 15 minutes a day on the site.
- See also: Brothers provide DVD commentary for their old home movie.
- What happens in bookstores at night.
- What also happens: Perverts masturbate in Barnes & Noble.
- Summarizing the field of happiness science, and why married, healthy, rich church-goers are best off.
- Chart: 92 countries ranked by misery.
- Data behind the headline, "Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture."
- Communion wafer advertising.
