Headlines from November 17, 2008
- Obama advisers are reviewing Bill Clinton's finances, activities to vet Hillary as a candidate for secretary of state.
- Obama, McCain to meet today in Chicago; Obama could sway bipartisan support, McCain could reclaim the mantle of "maverick."
- Not likely to become the first emailing president, Obama may have to surrender his BlackBerry.
- Video: Peter Schiff predicts the banking crisis in 2006, is ridiculed by fellow talking heads.
- The monkeys must grab the bags of money and not just shriek and go running all over the place. Jack Handey plans a heist.
- Women who wear a bikini in the presence of James Bond have a 45 percent chance of being dead by the end of the film.
- Storyboards from Star Wars from when it was The Star Wars.
- "God forbid someone take a chance by having more than three chord changes in a song." Donald Fagen defends Steely Dan to friends.
- A history of drugs in music; a history of drugs in literature.
- There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Faulkner's Nobel speech.
- Another perfect replica of the Times hit New York streets in October 1978, then more prescient comedy than biting commentary.
- Barbecue fanatic Calvin Trillin travels to Lexington, Texas, to taste the best Texas BBQ in the world.
- A list of stylish clothing that's made in the U.S.A.
- "Five myths about an election of mythic proportions."
- Instapaper for the commute: Nussbaum hopes Obama will start with a clean slate regarding India.
- The very idea that Obama should transform African Americans into the black Waltons is flawed.
- Architects and designers imagine a new Oval Office for Obama.
- Not impressed: Goldman top executives forgoing their 2008 bonuses.
- Rationale from the neuroscience world on why credit-card spending doesn't feel bad.
- Your daily dose of neuroscience: On rats, light-sensitive genes, and on-off switches.
- Shortage that illuminates the global crisis: steel shipping containers.
- Inside Nigeria's politicians' waiting game as President Yar'Adua holds onto power.
- Op: Alert to Western writers: "Africa" doesn't exist; you made it up.
- Slavoj Zizek on Obama's win; Slavoj Zizek welcomes you to the gym.
- In case the book's size scares you off, five of 2666's "most unskippable" passages.
- TMN's Anthony Doerr on "superorganisms."
- Get thee to North Adams: Great website for Sol LeWitt's new MASS MoCA retrospective.