Headlines from January 26, 2009
- Monday job cuts see 45,000 laid off from big companies.
- Financial crisis topples Iceland's coalition government.
- As states close prisons, small towns worry how they'll replace cheap convict labor.
- Op: Obama's team should save its China criticism for issues that really deserve it.
- Reasons why liberatarians can be pleased with Obama so far.
- I owe a lot of my character and who I am today from a humble background. Interview with Zimbabwe's chief banker, apparently responsible for nothing bad.
- Notes on pornographic cartoons, "idly sketched by Politburo members," and other treasures from the Stalin archives.
- Instapaper for the commute: "Ms. Kennedy Regrets," or how a senate candidate turned Bartleby.
- How Oprah's current crisis captures the nation's free-floating angst.
- What it's like to live a completely nailed-down, GPS-enabled life.
- 2009 is the Year of the Gorilla and the International Year of Natural Fibers; periodic table of metaphors.
- Very short history of political scientists in the movies.
- Roger Ebert imagines the scenario wherein The Dude gets beat up at Sundance.
- This is your last day to beat up on the Rooster's Zombie Round.
- Hertzberg: Rather than choosing a hard or soft power narrative, Clinton will renew liberal internationalist "smart power."
- Hamas offers yearlong ceasefire should siege of Gaza end, borders open.
- Today's long read: In Egypt, Facebook is helping foster the rehearsal for revolution where freedom of speech, assembly cannot.
- To combat hard economic times, Russian state alcohol agency proposes a tax cut on vodka.
- Today is the last day you can vote in the 2009 Tournament of Books Zombie Poll.
- Globish: English unintelligible to the English, which only angers the French more.
- Billy's from my 'hood, mid-Long Island--Hicksville, to be precise (I'm from Bay Shore)--so I'm sensitive to his abuse of our common roots. Ron Rosenbaum explains the awfulness of Billy Joel.
- The winter 2006 tour journal of the Piano Men, North America's only five-member Billy Joel tribute band, by Todd Levin.
- Ecologist uses 18th-century British military maps to recreate the Manhattan island Hudson found.
- Kate Moss wants to buy the farmhouse from Withnail And I.
- In her web series, Smart Girls at the Party, Amy Poehler interviews awesome girls.
- Video: Clip from adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.
- Photos of old-school New York shoe shops.
