Headlines from October 28, 2008
- McCain calls on Alaska's Stevens to resign.
- McCain's problems are not technical... They are institutional, to do with his colleagues, his advisers, and his supporters.
- The Anchorage Daily News: "It is Sen. Obama who truly promises fundamental change in Washington."
- Those who despise science... are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. Hitchens on Palin's anti-science stance.
- Op: No other Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race.
- Conservatives following Blankley and Rush are being led down a magical path to irrelevance.
- Sarah Hepola: How the financial crisis ruined my love life.
- See also: Profile of Hepola's super-powered ability to weep.
- Polish man prosecuted for linking president's website to searches for "a synonym for the male genitalia."
- Supported by Petraeus, White House considers talking to the Taliban to decrease downward spiral in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Instapaper for the commute: Profile of "the godfather of Bangalore"; profile of Greg Carr's investments in Mozambique.
- Chicago Tribune report on Japan's most famous Obama impersonator.
- "Your travel guide to Illinois' ghosts, local legends, and best secrets."
- Photos of coughs, gas leaks, and other invisible things that cause micro-changes in air density.
- When we awake Nov. 5, no failure of administration should have tarnished our outsize pride in our democracy. Election workers must rely on backup strategies, not litigation.
- As Election Day approacheth, the press prepares boilerplate responses, trying to avoid Messiah, winds of change cliches.
- In Indiana, call center workers protest McCain scripts, walk off job.
- Envy and arrogance are the two opposite sides of the same black crystal. Teddy Roosevelt ponders the bailout, the campaign.
- Obama's chief strategist, confidant explains how to win the white vote, why believing in the candidate matters most.
- Today's long read: In the war on urban poverty cities are not victims, zoos won't help, another round of federal investment isn't the answer.
- How both candidates have assumed the role of president while campaigning, to appear more presidential, surely.
- Op: Important writers set themselves the task...of promoting Palin and, in the process, making perfect asses of themselves. They succeeded at both.
- Scott Horton: Sarah Palin doesn't need to fear "a socialist state in which American freedoms are undermined"--it's already here.
- "I'm not defending this; I'm not criticizing it." West Hollywood house hangs Palin effigy on a noose; police say it's not a hate crime, it's Halloween.
- Do you understand The New Yorker's cartoons? Take the test and see.
- The seven types of pet costumes; TMN's Geoff Badner and Todd Levin cover the Fort Greene dog costume parade.
- Video: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne shows off his double-neck "Guitar Hero" guitar.