November 29, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Korea's president channels Carter and dons long underwear to conserve energy.
- Patagonia ad urges customers to buy less of its clothing, less in general.
- Kenya yet to wipe out jihadist militia in Somalia.
- Gingrich's Belgian Congo dissertation mashed up with Tintin au Congo.
- Keith Gessen, n+1 editor, reports from jail with fellow Occupy activists.
- Miley Cyrus releases Occupy Wall Street support video.
- Just as bad: Zack De La Rocha's Occupy poem.
- Captivating obituary for Lana Peters, Stalin's daughter.
- Why we will soon forget about the NBA lockout and possibly the pepper-spraying of students, too.
- Among the ideas that died in 2011: "Illegal Mexican immigration is a growing threat."
- Roger Federer loses race for senate seat that he didn't seek.
- "Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future."
- TMN's tips should you accidentally swallow the Higgs Boson.
- If you enjoyed Rosecrans Baldwin's Paris letters on TMN, prepare to like Paris in the springtime, specifically April 2012.
- A dummy Paris, "complete with a Champs-Elysées," was built to fool German bombers during WWI.
- Collection of short skits based around classic video games.
- Every Beatles tune played simultaneously, with all 226 songs finishing together.
