Headlines from October 1, 2008
- Bitter dividends for longtime shareholders of bank stocks.
- Constituents take down House of Representatives' website.
- Analysis that knows lunacy when it sees it: The Guilfoile-Warner Papers, TMN's new blog.
- There's nothing that can put this right in six months. Six questions for economist James Galbraith on the crisis and the bailout.
- Op: Maybe the G.O.P. isn't really dead. It sure looks dead, though.
- McCain losing female voters faster than Palin first attracted them.
- Video highlights from other V.P. debates--some great (Bentsen v. Quayle), others grueling (Lieberman v. Cheney).
- Op: Democrats must stop focusing on making dirty energy more expensive and instead embrace a strategy to make clean energy cheap.
- How the U.S.'s "mothball fleet"--ocean vessels currently dry-docked--could be transformed into desalinization plants to produce fresh water.
- Where car-seat laws came from, and how they're enforced.
- The New York Sun, dedicated to free market economics and a terrific culture section, goes under.
- Frere-Jones on Timbaland's impact on pop music.
- What the hell does "emunctory" mean? You have here gone too far, sir, even for Buckley. Mailer writes Buckley in 1965 (more letters here).
- Remnick regulates after Nobel judge disses American writing.
- Print for the commute: Former classmate of David Spade's on the lunacy of Spade dating so many beautiful women.
- Op: McCain's "League of Democracies" would fail--it's people, not governments that drive foreign policy.
- Today's long read: Understand why people vote Republican, get a crash course in moral psychology, learn something valuable about unity.
- "There were many times the third candidate and I would walk off stage and shake our heads." Past debate performances show Palin as wily, effective.
- Op: $700 billion is the fine for failing to regulate.
- "I am hanging in there." Excerpts from Spitzer's crisis-mode inbox, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act.
- Op: The real legacy of The Satanic Verses is a culture of self-censorship.
- Given the opportunity to choose, how would you like to die? Mike Patton: "Doing the thing I love most in life... mowing my lawn." Selections from Exclaim!'s monthly questionnaire.
- Last Friday TMN Newsletter subscribers were treated to a chat with Todd Levin--to make sure you receive the next interview, sign up here.
- Point: Depressions build Characters, just look at the Greatest Generation; counterpoint: Hogwash.
- Photos: Pre-1962 America in color.
- Homer Simpson, alone in his journey--perhaps the Bear could be his friend?
- For its anniversary, Google dusts off a 2001 archive; TMN nostalgia and what we looked like then.