March 6, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Syria's Assad said to congratulate Putin on his election by telegram.
- Guide to stealing elections: Obey the rules, assuming you wrote them in advance.
- Belarus's pseudo-president says it's better to be a dictator than gay; gay German foreign minister appreciates confirmation of dictatorship.
- Chart: Average length of leaders' tenure.
- Pictures showing the literal weight of a person's social network.
- NFL's bounty-hitting scandal expanded to include the Bills, Titans, and Redskins.
- Meth king used profits to buy an Audi, Mercedes, Lexus, and 18,753 comic books.
- For cycling enthusiasts: Old editions of The Ride offered as free downloads.
- Free copies of Poetry magazine offered to book groups.
- Photos of the "introspective pause" gained by smoking cigarettes.
- Art critic analyzes Thomas Kinkade's March calendar.
- Confessions of bed-wetting, boarding-school sex, and parents having congress, by J.R. Ackerley.
- Analysis of the political and cultural differences between the Boy and Girl Scouts.
- Texas Girl Scouts, robbed of their cookie money, fight back, clinging to the thieves' get-away car.
