March 9, 2015

• Obama tells a crowd in Selma, "We know the march is not yet over."
• Selma today is a place expected to carry perhaps more symbolic weight than any small city can bear.
• Senator Lindsay Graham reveals he has never sent an email.
• For media geeks: War stories from inside NBC news, before and after the Brian Williams crash.
• With Alaska's warmer than normal temperatures, this year's Iditarod race is moved north in search of snow.
• Florida's Department of Environmental Protection banned from using the terms "climate change," "global warming," and "sustainability."
• Australia moves toward forbidding some prisoners from speaking Arabic.
• Sentences in the style of "that feel when" are the latest Internet revolution in syntax.
• Today on TMN: The 2015 Morning News Tournament of Books is now live. Let slip the roosters of war!
• Today's your last day to order an official Rooster T-shirt.
• America loses interest in golf—too difficult, too expensive, too slow-going.
• Kentucky finishes men's basketball season 31-0, first undefeated season by a major conference team since 1976.
• See also: Jim Boeheim and Syracuse basketball sanctioned for academic and recruiting violations.
• Pragmatic and physical challenges face those who undergo gender change late in life.
• Academics who praise the dawn of African literature do so in ignorance of the field.
• Ishiguro: "I owe my career, and a lot else besides, to Jane Eyre and Villette."
• Berkeley students hold teach-in to protest professor who wrote rap song about black responsibility and "scapegoating the cops."
• Hamburg keeps streets clean with water-repellent paint that "splashes back" on visitors who pee outside.