January 18, 2012: Morning
- Scott Walker recall election filed with more than twice the amount of necessary signatures.
- Mitt Romney: The whitest white man to run for president in recent memory.
- Romney would be the first president "who belongs to a church that the U.S. government actually tried to crush."
- John McCain's 2008 burn book on Romney surfaces.
- Washington Post, NPR, Guardian to attempt "experimental, one-day Band-Aid" for SOPA blackout.
- Facebook-sponsored study: Facebook is not an online echo chamber.
- Bryan twins explain why millionaire tennis players should play less: to improve the game.
- Matt Haughey on how not to run a Kickstarter campaign.
- Village Voice's 2011 Pazz and Jop ballots are in; Adele and tUnE-yArDs come out on top.
- Novelists join Soros to write about the Millennium Development Goals with "non-professional language."
- Ezra Pound's daughter fights fascist group "CasaPound" for the rights to her dad's name.
- Alternate era movie poster: Shatner in Avatar, Connery in The Fifth Element.
- Mencken to Saroyan: Being an editor is hell.