January 7, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Obama to nominate counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan as next director of the CIA.
- First CIA officer faces prison for a press leak—"one of an unprecedented string of six prosecutions under President Obama."
- Ethical questions appear when patients with dementia find romance in nursing homes, and spouses outside complain.
- Due to the outsize influence of narrow interest groups, America has become Europe, with the Democrats playing France.
- See also: Round-up of France-bashing from covers of the Economist.
- Tokyo's last street-level view of Mount Fuji is about to be obscured by new construction.
- Guide to New York's newest literary magazines, grown in the wake of n+1.
- With seemingly limitless sex in big cities, online dating may render marriage, or at least commitment, undesirable.
- Jamie Kennedy's chaotic New Year's broadcast, hoax or not, was decidedly a big failure.
- The most-visited page on Wikipedia in 2012 was for Facebook—suggesting many people still don't know how to use the internet.
- Amazon.com reviews for the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer.
- Girl fights Iceland for right to be named after a character from a Halldor Laxness novel.
- Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs of American girls growing up.
- Study: People with prudish disgust-sensitivity have a superior ability to detect impurities (i.e., dirt).
- GQ correspondent gets high and eats lunch with Snoop Lion, Snoop Dogg's latest incarnation.
- Speculative guide to the consumption of dinosaur meat.
- The most exciting thing on the internet right now: Sports camera attached to trombone slide creates silliness.
