Headlines from June 16, 2008
- The tragicomic demise of the Ron Paul-less Libertarian Party.
- Profile of Obama's managerial skills.
- Gallery of "photobombers"--guys who ruin otherwise awesome pictures of you and your friends.
- How we are when we read online: "selfish, lazy, and ruthless."
- "Sleep texting" may be more a matter of amnesia than deep dozing.
- New York story from 1984: "The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood."
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's latest "Digital Ramble" for T Magazine's "The Moment."
- Print for the commute: Jon Lee Anderson on the motives and means of Chávez.
- The hows and whys of Radiohead's environmentally sound lighting design.
- Why Priuses, why Berkeley: the role of geography in buying green.
- Is Video Skype deepening our long-distance relationships, or just making them more frustrating?
- Pearls of wisdom for how to eat oysters.
- Is preferring Mozart to Schoenberg a matter of natural inkling for consonance, or a matter of nurturing?
- Why you're more likely to get more popcorn with the medium bag than the large one.
- McCain makes moves on Hillary supporters; polls cite Republican policy ills, show many women are siding with Obama.
- Hillary supporters who won't vote for Obama exist--but what do we call them?
- Op: With the W.H.O.'s statement that AIDS is confined to high-risk groups, we can forget the pandemic and focus on helping.
- Puppy memoirs: They're optimistic, spiritual, and--when culminating in euthanasia--controversial.
- Photos of actors crying--Robin Williams can really shed them.
- The war between landlords who want to live in their buildings and tenants who don't want to move out.
- Some critics spoil new movies to elucidate 18 points of disgust.
- Critic remember Ang Lee version. A monosyllabic review of The Hulk.
- George Saunders has an idea for a TV show about superheroes without superpowers.
- It's cool. Don't fight it. Banker seeks hipster.
- Less than a year after EMI's new boss stepped in, the music publisher is buckling under massive debt, layoffs, and an uncertain future.
- "This last year has been astounding...We have to keep it going." Ron Paul ends his bid for the presidency--this time.
- Video: Reverse graffiti--"I make pictures by cleaning."