Headlines from January 22, 2009
- Obama orders closure of Guantanamo, new ethics rules, revisions to CIA's torture playbook.
- The Bush team's record with Pyongyang these past eight years is a nearly unbroken string of defeats and retreats.
- Comparing Obama and Bill Clinton as though it's a Harvard-Yale football game.
- Meet Howard Unruh, America's first modern mass murderer.
- Poster children for "the current PhD despondency" discuss their job prospects and weakened investments.
- Obama staff, accustomed to Macs, find the White House mired in six-year-old Windows machines.
- Op: Are you prepared to join Obama's asexual Emo-America?
- Want to grab Obama/Animal Collective-related traffic on the web? Sure, why not.
- Authors and speechwriters respond to Obama's speech.
- Video: How China saw Obama's inauguration speech, particularly after he mentioned facing down communism.
- We also still enjoy watching Aretha tell someone to shut up during her song.
- Roger Ebert pays tribute to Steak 'n Shake.
- U.S. chefs place second in global military cook-off: 150 three-course meals in six hours.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation actors are available on Twitter.
- Nominate your favorite 2009 Rooster contender for Zombie status.
- Obama takes the oath again--just to be sure.
- It's now possible to get a fairly exact head count--without a magnifying glass. How to measure the size of a huge crowd.
- In Iran, only those with satellite TV watched the inauguration; the streets were filled with students burning pictures of Obama.
- Photos: Icelanders vent fury over bumbled financial crisis, besieging parliament building with massive protest.
- America is addicted to Canadian, not Middle Eastern oil.
- Feeling the pinch, car designers attempt some humility at this year's Detroit Auto Show.
- Photos: Growing stocks of unsold cars.
- Voting for the 2009 ToB Zombies is now open. Weigh in today: Polls close Monday!
- Video: Ze Frank stars in The Remnants, a post-apocalyptic short.
- Related: How I survived the various apocalypses.
- Chewbacca threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to a game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. And nine more Star Wars sports crossovers.
- Also: "Darth Vader Made Me Cry" by Matthew Baldwin.
- I don't think she'd played with guns as a girl, and I didn't press charges. A year later she threw herself under a train.