North And South Korea's Two-Minute-Long Korea-Only Sea Battle
Koreas North and South had their first actual battle in seven years. It lasted two minutes, which is understandable given it had been seven years . [ New York Times ]
Nidal Hasan gave some PowerPoint presentation a year and a half ago about how Muslims in the US Army should not be fighting Muslims in other armies. At the time everyone thought this was weird. [ Washington Post ]
Hasan also became pen pals with a Yemeni-based al Qaeda sympathizer, and this too people knew about a year ago but did not think was that weird because there was no indication within their correspondence that he was going to eventually murder anyone. [ Reuters ]
The DC sniper will be executed today in Virginia. His lawyers say he is mentally ill and should just be given life in prison though. [ WSJ ]
At the last minute, Hurricane Ida decided to go as Tropical Storm Ida during its visit to the Gulf Coast states. [ AP ]
Google is installing free wireless in 47 American airports. They're calling this a "holiday gift." Orwell had a different word for it. [ CNN ]