November 18, 2011: Morning
- City-by-city round-up of Occupy marches and arrests.
- Fifty-seven members of Congress among America's 1%.
- Pictures of the 99% Batman logo projected in New York last night.
- Flickr photo of the day: Hong Kong Island and Kowloon seen from the window of a plane.
- "Ditch Taiwan" op-ed writer says he intended to compose satire.
- Man charged with trying to assassinate the president said to be Obama-obsessed.
- Charts show corporate income tax as nearing-zero share of corporate profits and percentage of the GDP.
- Portraits of poverty in America.
- Gambling over chess at Occupy Wall Street.
- Syracuse associate head coach suspended over accusations of molesting boys.
- Ten times as many girls are trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported in the peak years of the slave trade.
- Should you find that statistic revolting: The Somaly Mam Foundation.
- Fascinating notes about Shakespeare writing parts based on the players available to him.
- The underlying mechanism by which swearing increases pain tolerance is the provocation of an emotional response.
- To get your morning going on the right foot: lovely owls.