Your Times Tomorrow Today

Links to front-page New York Times articles to get you around the paywall.

• The deepening of the Egyptian Revolution seems more focused on ensuring real personnel change than any ideological or theological agenda, answering Islamaphobes everywhere.
• Meanwhile, airstrikes in Libya kill 5. No word yet on when Islamaphobes will have to eat their hat on preventing mass murder there.
• In La Cote D'Ivoire grim reality is setting in.
• The Portugal bailout is not without political cost.
• In the local carnivore movement, slaughterhouse capacity is proving the big bottleneck in getting beef to market. Thank me later for avoiding a "Where's the beef" pun.
• If your stated goal is to be the adult in the room, expect your political opponents to stick to 'No Deal' on matters of national importance.
• Speaking of which, a looming government shutdown would have serious consequences, including being more expensive than maintaining government operations. Even from a budget or 'cutting spending' standpoint, shutting down the government doesn't make any sense. Yet John Boehner is preparing a shutdown just to punish Planned Parenthood. Punishment, I suppose, for being a health resource for women.
• The race to the bottom for states attracting businesses is reaching new heights.
• Another look back at secessionism, of the oldentimes variety, not the Texas Governor style. It does seem like the GOP calls for secession have quieted down a bit recently, doesn't it?
• Getting on to the Republican substantive agenda, the House votes to prevent the EPA from protecting the environment against industrial emissions. Next week, they'll ask the Department of Justice to stop prosecuting criminals. Oh wait, they already did.
• Maybe feeding food crops into industrial energy processes isn't the best idea.
• Headline: Obama administration to tackle inequality in education. Meanwhile, Bloomberg's gambit of school reform has come crashing down in just 3 months. If Social Security is the third rail of American politics, inequality in education is the super high voltage long-distance power distribution grid cable.
• Why pay Congress? So we can have represntatives that don't have to be wealthy as a precondition for serving their constituents. I'm afraid to click the link to find out if Nicholas Kristof can come up with that answer after posing such a question.
• Japan is still not out of the seismic activity woods, registering a 7.4 magnitude aftershock friday morning (local time).
• Finally, Disney is planning to waste millions of dollars in China.