November 30, 2011: Morning
- Biggest strike in 30 years disrupts UK; 58% of schools closed.
- Obamas take their daughters book shopping; the girls buy the President Everyone Poops.
- Professional lobbyist Gingrich splits hairs over being a lobbyist.
- Free speech rights of federal employees to be decided soon.
- Audubon's Birds of America now available as high-resolution scans.
- CEOs may be irrationally overpaid, but it's harder to tax top earners than you think.
- It's not clear that there is a fully functioning money market in Europe right now.
- Demand in 2005 was so high for Lexus's Christmas-car bows, they were stockpiled in a California warehouse.
- Images of 1970s America in crisis.
- The face of CPR dummies is based on a famous Parisian death mask.
- Sociology notes on the life of older gays in rural British communities.
- Aston Kutcher anonymously requests people to fetch him coffee.
- Elvis Costello, who thinks the price of his new boxset "appears to be a satire," recommends you buy Louis Armstrong instead.
- Sounds that people born in the '80s and onward may not recognize.
- Writers, be warned: Sell your literary friendships and you'll know what it's like to be fucked by Faulkner.