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.