September 10, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Serena Williams wins U.S. Open; men to play final this afternoon.
- In case you missed it, the Minnesota Viking's pro-gay marriage letter to a Maryland politician.
- Most NFL players support gay marriage, says Ravens linebacker.
- Lunch breaks should be mandatory, even if they require "libertarian paternalism" to enforce.
- Both sides of the coin on whether 27 is the modern woman's perfect age.
- One side of a coin: Criticism protects a writer, fiction exposes her.
- Other side: The critic is free, free, free—within her dark and lonely cave.
- High-quality exchange between Times critics on the effects of digital in Hollywood.
- Funeral-music composer David Young responds on NPR to his songs being compared to Muzak.
- See the original TMN story, "Songs in the Key of Death" by Nicole Pasulka.
- Smartphones are creating a golden visual age, and it's up to the photographic community to harness the explosion.
- Jerry Seinfeld thinks iPhone cases are stupid.
- See also: Seinfeld takes Alec Baldwin out for coffee and Baldwin mocks Seinfeld's luck.
- Advice to Nigerians on how to obtain foreign friends.
- The Czech Republic, home of beer, finally has a variety of beers to choose from.
- Beer in straight glasses is consumed slower than beer in curved glasses.
- Musings on butter mountains and strategic reserves after the world's maple syrup was stolen.
- Ode to the crash-test dummy's appeal.
