Smorgasbord Saturday (New Year's Edition)

• "New Rules for the New Year"/Bill Maher, New York Times
• "Alcohol and the Idaho legislator"/Randy Stapilus, Ridenbaugh Press
• "12/30/1905 - Today In History"/John T. Richards, Idaho Meanderings
• "A brainpower revolution"/Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
• "Perry's Abortion Stance Gets Even More Extreme"/Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones
• "25 Literary resolutions for 2012. What's yours?"/Jacket Copy (via L.A. Times)
• "2011: A Year of Transitions"/Greg Johns, MLB.com
• "Keynes Was Right"/Paul Krugman, New York Times
• "Why Is Nepal Cracking Down On Tibetan Refugees?"/Jon Krakauer, The New Yorker
• "Pudge would welcome return to Rangers"/Texas Rangers Report, ESPNDallas.com
• "A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead"/Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times Magazine

Smorgasbord Saturday

• "My Occupy LA Arrest"/Patrick Meighan, Family Guy
• "Thousands Sterilized, North Carolina Weighs Restitution"/Kim Severson, New York Times
• "Idaho Supreme Court will decide Bujak documents case"/Kristin Rodine, Idaho Statesman
• "NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs of 2011"/Music Staff, NPR
• "Accounts of a Massacre, Saved From Junkyard Flames"/Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times
• "An Early Holiday Hangover"/Gail Collins, New York Times
• "Has Gingrich ever heard an idea he didn't like?"/Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
• "Extended labor peace a credit to Selig"/Richard Justice, MLB.com