November 5, 2011: Weekend
- Andy Rooney dies at age 92.
- Dryboarding scandal at Gitmo demands investigation that suicides were in fact torture.
- It's Bank Transfer Day, and 650,000 have switched to credit unions since September.
- Absorbing profile of how Tim DeChristopher became a martyr for the environmental movement.
- They don’t have to eat gutter oil or drink poisoned milk powder and now they’re protected from filthy air.
- Megacities will house three-quarters of world's population: apex of endeavor, passport from poverty.
- Why referendums don't work: They end up undermining and weakening democracy.
- There has to be a struggle. And before there can be a struggle in politics, there has to be a struggle in ideas.
- Nicaragua's Ortega may be undemocratic, but money for poor, bipartisan support will win him another term.
- Nollywood's movie star beats drugs charge—it was porridge, not bags of cocaine in his stomach.
- Cabin porn from beach-hut to cliff-side sauna.