January 16, 2013: Morning
- Religious leaders protest in Washington, saying politicians can't be relied upon to save us from climate change.
- Survey of economists finds broad agreement that politicians can't be trusted with the debt ceiling.
- Democrats and Republicans say there's virtually no chance they'll pass gun-control legislation.
- After learning that guns at home are 43 times more likely to kill a family member than to be used in self-defense, the NRA killed funds for gun-violence research.
- Now that the fight has begun, the NRA uses Obama's children in a political ad.
- FYI: Widespread gun ownership doesn't translate into toppling oppressive governments, and Hitler wasn't aided by gun-control laws.
- Conspiracy theorists who believe the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax begin harassing Newtown residents.
- Glitch with at least one cellphone company directs people with missing phones to one man's home in Las Vegas.
- Fascinating pictures of illegal, makeshift oil refineries in Nigeria.
- One sign that Johannesburg is becoming an agreeably cosmopolitan city: Complaints about an excess of urban hipsters.
- Chronicler of hipsters attacks those who would bash them.
- "Really Hip 90-Year-Old Figures He Has Every Right To Torrent Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood.'"
- Reminiscences of early days at the New York Review of Books.
- Sports story of the day: The intertwined basketball careers of Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse.
- Very funny bad lip-reading of NFL players, coaches, and officials.
- Matthew Barney designs a skateboard with a graphite tip, and skating legend Lance Mountain rides it around Detroit.
- American single-malt whiskey beats Scottish competition in a contest judged by British spirits experts.