January 4, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- After slim win in Iowa, Romney looks ahead to New Hampshire with great expectations.
- Analysis of Putinism—Putin has "neither the capacity nor the ambition to rebuild a Soviet-style hierarchy."
- Flashpoints for 2012, and why certain regions can expect conflict.
- Guidelines for would-be dictators.
- Fencer, fight choreographer, Darth Vader double Bob Anderson dies at 89.
- Taliban to set up political office, possibly in Qatar—a "gesture of good faith" to resume negotiations.
- Twenty-five things Irish people are looking forward to this year.
- Regarding the Irish real-estate debacle: "Developers," by Alice Lyons.
- In the late 1800s, anxious and tired male intellectuals—Whitman, Teddy Roosevelt—took the "West cure," e.g., roping, rough-riding.
- Video correction to media bias.
- Winners announced from contest for Metafilter's best posts.
- Photograph of spume overwhelming cars in Britain’s Fylde Coast.
- See also: Figurative sand sculptures.
- Free cabin porn.
- Uh Oh. Construction workers please note: Somebody just built a 20-foot tower near Paris using flying robots. No people involved.
