Headlines from September 29, 2008
- The true farce and disgrace is that this increasingly glassy-eyed old blunderer and war criminal...should be cited as an authority by either nominee. Hitchens on Kissinger.
- Fact checking: What McCain, Obama got wrong in the debate--and there was a lot.
- On McCain's fondness for gambling, involvement in casino scadals.
- As a last throw of the dice, McCain's campaign may be gunning for an Alaskan wedding--it has to help.
- You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. Sarah Palin and George Orwell.
- Follow the 2008 election with the Guilfoile-Warner Papers, a new blog at TMN.
- Photos: Candids of pre-debate Obama.
- Op: In terms of economic cycles and their stability, don't believe economists' "aura of permanent truth."
- Most of the young Masters already have their own personal nut free and clear. Tom Wolfe on the weather in Greenwich.
- Municipal Archive: What happens on the street in New York would happen on a stage anywhere else.
- Paul Newman's greatest film moments; how he used his fame to give away his fortune.
- Todd Levin on the final, disorienting minutes of the My Bloody Valentine show. (Our video here.)
- Using book spines to tell new stories.
- Yo: Just in time for November, TMN's new blog: The Guilfoile-Warner papers.
- Darien dinner with a Lehman trader; glinting the cocktails with Goldman-ites.
- History has shown what happens when a number becomes the central communications theme. Analysis of Bush's mistakes in selling the "700 Club."
- Indoor Tanning Association heartened by Palin's installation of a tanning bed in the Alaska governor's mansion.
- Researcher finds Obama got more negative press coverage than McCain last summer.
- Bernstein: No presidential nominee of either party in the last century has seemed so willing to endanger the country's security as McCain.
- The (albeit fictional) Palin quote generator.
- Bono is not the breeziest, briskest of bloggers.
- Lil Wayne ain't all that breezy, either, when he blogs.
- Sarkozy's socialist opponents bristle as he suddenly adopts their ideas, virtually reversing his ideological platform.
- Short survey of the chaos in Pakistan, "an especially frightening case of strategic blowback."
- New CDs are four to eight times louder than albums from the 1990s, and Metallica fans aren't pleased.
- Print for the commute: Law comes into being and is sustained not because the weak demand it but because it is a tool of the powerful.
- Nebraska begins allowing parents to leave children behind at hospitals, and parents begin doing so.
- High school football team uses bizarro plays to win--improving their season, enthralling game theorists.
- 2007 Rooster winner Diaz and Price on life in New York.
- Poetry bailout will restore confidence of readers, urges postmodernist official.
- A good day starts with a new poem by Anne Carson.
Gallery: The menace and brutality of New York's dog parks.