Headlines from September 30, 2008
- What stopped the Depression was a worldwide bloodbath. The bailout is about the past, not the future.
- Zakaria: "What she has to say is often, quite frankly, gibberish...a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head."
- Few noticed, but yesterday the Justice Dept. revealed political partisan interests helped fire the U.S. attorneys.
- Following double battery by Gustav and Ike, gasoline shortages persist across the South, lines may last another two weeks.
- Track the election with Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner in our new blog.
- Buffalo has a maritime border with Canada, as Ms. Palin noted Alaska has with Russia. New York has a foreign policy, too.
- Ecuador has a new leftist constitution--nature, environment gets rights too.
- Video: Illegal logging keeps Wal-Mart's toilet seats cheap, Russian forests clear of trees, mafia in business.
- "Special restaurants have even been set up to prepare food for the crews of the hijacked ships." From Somalia's pirate town.
- Video: Scientists create an outdoor laboratory--Monkey Island.
- Last chance to get in your entries for this month's Of Recent Note feature.
- In those darkened theaters, we escaped bad news, personal and national. A gem of a letter to the New York Times.
- In case you need to hope or panic about the economy: the best-case scenario and the worst-case scenario.
- Bush: People, you just don't get it; people: You're damn right--and we'll drain our savings to prove it!
- Video: McCain's consistent hammering on America's strong economy.
- List of the bailout's biggest losers.
- How the U.S. banking system is going through a decade's worth of consolidation in a matter of weeks.
- We are now in a generalized panic mode and back to the risk of a systemic meltdown of the entire financial system.
- Op: Protecting Palin from a press conference is sexist bullshit.
- "A bunch of spivs ran it into the ground." It's not only Americans who are feeling the banking collapse.
- "'Is My Money Safe?' and other Questions to Ask."
- The answer when you get sick is to find the right M.D., not become one.
- John Hodgman on why becoming a minor celebrity is better than anything you could imagine.
- Parisian looks on fashion week spectators, and on the models.
- Print for the commute: Franco-friendly Franklin as America's first urbanist, with lots in common with Giuliani.
- New York buildings ugly enough to be demolished.
- Woody Allen on his Manhattan of the mind.