November 14, 2012: Morning
- CIA publishes new informational brochure, “How to Tell if You’re Involved in the Petraeus Scandal.”
- Handy flowchart guide to the Petraeus affair.
- In Texas, 77,000 sign petition to secede from the union.
- France's Hollande now bringing in a massive corporate tax rebate, warning the state will need to learn to spend less.
- European union leaders explain why they're backing today's continental strike.
- Big pictures of Venice as it suffers flooding from "acqua alta."
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on eating Thanksgiving in Venice when floodwaters are high.
- See also: An ode to the nacho.
- It's that time of year: Blackface is popular in the streets of Holland.
- Coming soon: Krampus, "the boozy goat-horned menace that whips children around Europe."
- When you remove the gamboling penis from American politics, the last men standing are Coolidge and Nixon.
- Profile of the Obama campaign's unpaid "consortium of behavioral scientists."
- "Is America Ready for a White, Male Secretary of State?"
- Further evidence that the Knicks' Rasheed Wallace is "the wonderfully batshit hero Gotham deserves."
- Quick answers from Malcolm Gladwell to random questions.