May 30, 2012: Morning
- First self-immolations protesting Chinese rule occur in Lhasa.
- Events worsen in Syria for both Assad and the opposition, and the UN is in a do-nothing bind.
- Good Morning America headline: "Nicole Kidman Urinates On Zac Efron In The Paperboy."
- Kids with active friends more likely to be active themselves.
- Thin trend story says Japanese investors, post-catastrophe and pre-potential collapse, are moving money overseas.
- RIP, Doc Watson, dead at 89.
- Following liver doctors' example, lung doctors adopt transplant system they can't game.
- Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make money.
- Mitt cinches nomination; GOP to spend $1 billion to win White House and Congress.
- Romney campaign releases iPhone app, misspelling “A Better Amercia.”
- Related: Tumblr for anyone who has downloaded the app and loves Amercia.
- Prison letter home from George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers.
- Pictures from David Hockney's Toronto iShow (iPad and iPhone pictures).
- White walls beautified with elaborate illustrations of clutter and neighborhoods.
- Your Wednesday meditation: Arthur Rubinstein playing Chopin.