October 1, 2012: Morning
- The allowance that Japanese wives give their salarymen husbands is at its lowest since 1979.
- Iranian news agency republishes Onion story about rural whites liking Ahmadinejad over Obama.
- The case against voting for Obama even if you think he's better than Romney.
- Political candidates now wage foreign policy; the next step will be sending drone surrogates abroad.
- Battlestar Gallactica credited with properly portraying life on a big ship.
- Australia, with just a third of a percent of Earth's population, accounts for almost half its micronations.
- Ole Miss celebrates 50 years of painfully achieved racial desegregation.
- "Fanta face"—someone using skin-lightening products in Nigeria.
- I’m 33, I live in Lagos, and when I’m not reading books, I write books for a living.
- Senate majority whip takes online course in modern poetry.
- Joe Isuzu was fired by first-class mail, and other stories of famous pitchmen.
- Lovely examples of Grateful Dead fan art.
- Stingray photobomb.
- Mass-player video games, with lots of buying and selling, hire economists to consult on markets.
- Gender gap among economists extends to core professional beliefs.
- Thoughts of the super-rich on taxes and presidents.