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Headlines from September 25, 2008
- Video: Letterman craters McCain for pausing his campaign, choosing Couric over Washington.
- Yes, presidential debates are important--sometimes dramatic and momentous, as these clips show.
- The GOP revels in rhetoric about never blinking--against terrorism, etc.--and now McCain? He's blinking
- Op: It took President Bush until Wednesday night to address the American people about the nation's financial crisis, and pretty much all he had to offer was fear itself.
- I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship. Urgent bailout spam.
- American's Foreign Policy Gift Shop: Souvenir tchotchkes in remembrance of the last eight years.
- ...lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat? Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert responds in appropriate register.
- Love it: The speech accent archive.
- "See my eyes," Barbara would say. "Jewish eyes are sort of big and brown and terribly sad." More vintage wisdom from Helen Gurley Brown.
- Preparing for The Great (perpetual) Resources Wars of the Late 21st Century--seriously.
- Video: Jackson State University Marching Band twirler in the moment.
- FDR ran for office in the middle of the largest conflict in human history--twice. We can have a debate this Friday.
- "When the stock market crashed, FDR got on the TV and didn't just talk about the princes of greed." Biden misspeaks so often, it's hardly damaging anymore.
- Obama: the debates are on.
- With one of the lowest attendance rates in the Senate, why is it time for McCain to work now?
- In a presidential campaign, the surest sign that a candidate is playing politics on an issue is when he claims not to be playing politics on an issue.
- "We just wanted to choose a really large number." Congress unenthusiastic after Treasury admits $700 billion figure is imaginary.
- Two men control a crucial part of the financial market: a story of sucking up information from other cubicles.
- Meet the 12-year-olds who recreated Indiana Jones--shot for shot.
- Greece's abandonment of the Mediterranean diet is turning young Greeks obese.
- The Sex Files: a sex column that deals with sex on a gene level.
- Speaking of genetics: more than one hundred new sharks and rays announced in Australia.
- Love it: The speech accent archive.
- Schwarzenegger bans in-car text messaging, companies who do business with Sudan.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's digital ramble through industrial design.
- Video: People being punched in the head, filmed at 1000 frames per second.