Headlines from January 8, 2009
- With legislators still deadlocked on budget plans, California faces "fiscal Armageddon."
- Five to Instapaper: Five economists who called the crisis on what comes next.
- Big Picture selections from the Gaza Strip.
- The longer the challenge of removing West Bank settlements is evaded, the more overwhelming it becomes.
- Excellent 2006 map from the London Times of "Shrinking Palestine."
- What you don't know about Gaza may be contained in this article.
- AP Gaza reporter loses apartment, mosque, city, and life to shelling.
- Today's must-read: Proportionality doesn't play in the Middle East when neither side is prepared to include the other in its suffering.
- Moral conundrum: Is it wrong to keep Viagra use a secret?
- Facebook accused of supporting mob bosses by allowing them profiles from jail.
- Barney Frank: Synthesizing Hegel, acting congressman for gay America.
- How to break into Bollywood as an extra; how to break into a Bollywood poster.
- What it's like to watch Bollywood pictures in Mumbai.
- Stunning video: Dead poets re-animated, reading their poems.
- In Gaza, neoconservatism has died--destroying the peace process is as big a mistake as the Iraq War.
- Op: The war isn't about rockets, it's about completely defeating a whole people.
- "If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day." How to coexist in Gaza.
- Red Cross slams Israel for neglecting the Gaza wounded, failing to "meet its obligation under international humanitarian law."
- With reports of rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel, a second front may be opening in the war.
- "Being a Christian, I'm pretty well protected by God." Joe the Plumber is off to cover the fighting.
- "We are to be a counterculture--in and not of the world, accepting yet not acquiescent." Onward Christian hipsters.
- Last night, protests over a shooting death by a police officer erupted into a riot in downtown Oakland.
- Six-year-old steals parents' car, claims he learned how from Grand Theft Auto.
- Cities impair mental faculties; nature improves recovery, life, with less effort required to enjoy it.
- The most anticipated books of 2009.