November 6, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Democrats win races in Virginia, New York City, Atlanta, and Boston, but not New Jersey.
- Among the takeaways from Election Night 2013: Republicans have an un-married people problem.
- See also: Election-day oddities include 16- and 17-year-olds voting and Coloradans rejecting a bid for secession.
- Obamacare subsides [sic] are designed to help single moms and struggling middle-class families, not married creative-class millennials in pricey cities.
- Right-wingers appropriate SpongeBob SquarePants as their latest mascot.
- Nicolas Maduro declares it is now Christmas in Venezuela, latest in a series of "oddball" moves after succeeding Chávez.
- Regarding Alcoholics Anonymous' failure in Russia: "Its premise of sobriety through mutual support just doesn’t make sense to a lot of Russians."
- Entrepreneur from Vietnam buys 10-acre property in Wyoming—the smallest town in America—to launch a coffee empire.
- Bismack Biyombo leads the NBA in almost never touching the basketball during a game.
- Related: Occasional feelings of loneliness are a near-universal experience, but there are ways to stop "alone" from sliding into "lonely."
- Harvard linebacker says a degree from an elite academic school can make a player a magnet for bullying from teammates in the NFL.
- See also: Chapter from Rich Cohen's excellent Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football.
- In the 2060s or the 2130s, Facebook will contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones.
- Soliloquies found in photographs when a single source of visual energy illuminates a picture.
- Fascinating Thinking Allowed episode finds Vietnamese sex workers emigrating, marrying, then working to support their Western husbands.
- Maldives protestors hijack tourism board's hashtag to post evidence of human-rights violations.
- Murakami's work unites Asia in a "culture of coolness" despite—or perhaps because of—its lack of Asia.
- "Oakley’s 'Asian fit' sunglasses aren’t racist, just science."
