Headlines from May 6, 2008
- Myanmar survivors desperate for aid; aftermath feared more lethal than the storm itself.
- All of that stuff that made it possible to live in New York is gone. Sarah Jessica Parker on the end of New York.
- There is next to no speculation about Barack Obama’s sexual secrets. This is a seismic shift in racial subtext.
- Tips on how to watch returns from Indiana and North Carolina.
- Non-musicians may have a hard time with major vs. minor, but they get happy vs. sad.
- Psychologists say people believe insurance keeps them safe, appeases the gods.
- How the evangelical community adapts to the unworthy aspects of popular culture.
- At Hunter College, a PR class puts on a fake blog about a fake bag with real money--from Coach.
- A fake 10-year-old's letters to public figures and serial killers, and their replies.
- Participants in New York City's Gay Pride Parade have turned down the volume of the music in order to be more accommodating to kids. Signs of the gay baby boom.
- Audio/visual guide to coca-growing in Bolivia.
- A map of every street in (the 48 states) America.
- Graph for all the little parts in how much you spend.
- Teens' rap about The Economist less awful than you expect.
- Big day here at the White House. Milbank's take on Bush's last days.
- Photos of other people's rad parties you missed.
- In Myanmar, a cyclone may have left as many as 14,000 dead and one million homeless--and the White House finds a political op.
- There are no roads in the region that are functional so access is primarily by boat, but many boats have been destroyed." Aid is available--how will it enter?
- U.S. says 3,500 soldiers sent to Iraq for the surge will be leaving soon.
- Potentially related: If Gates wants 7,000 troops in Afghanistan, he'll need to take them out of Iraq first.
- Puerto Rico's full Olympic membership and its half-in-half-out status as a commonwealth of the U.S. is a subject of conversation for two exceptional reasons.
- A federal gas tax holiday may be a gimmick--but at the state level, it would make a big difference.
- The trailer park vantage: watching Clinton and Obama drink beers, hang out in factories, talk about shooting guns.
- You wore a trucker cap into a truck stop and felt scared. Signs you may be a hipster.
- Ten-year-olds are copying Shel Silverstein and winning contests for it; it happened last year, too.
- The 50 greatest fake commercials, mainly from SNL.
- It's come to this: a social networking site for the dead.
- China, Costa Rica, the Netherlands: Who will ban smoking next?
- How to get a town to ban plastic bags: Start with the butcher.