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Headlines from September 3, 2009
- To win the war in Afghanistan, Obama may find more Republican support than help from his own party.
- The report exposed that the Taliban takes a percentage of the billions of dollars in aid from U.S. and other international coalition members.
- More than half of the nation's college campuses are reporting students infected with H1N1.
- The state of bee nation: Experts update us on where we are in the effort to halt hive loss.
- World Wildlife Fund admits ad depicting dozens of planes crashing into New York City was in poor taste.
- Ultra-conservative Domino's founder failed at founding a law school but managed to take theocratic control of a small Florida town.
- Collectible "Torture Team" trading cards feature George "Mission Accomplished" Bush, Dick "Strangelove" Cheney, and more.
- From 2006, a list of recommended nicknames for every member of Bush's incoming Democratic Congress.
- Denmark's Living Library allows humans to borrow other humans.
- Chuck Peterson found himself constantly hounding 17-year-old Warren Buffett to clean up after himself.
- I resent that the painfully animated Wonder Pets has an unholy grip on my daughter's affections. Bourdain reviews his children's favorite shows.
- At Infinite Summer, the Decemberists' Colin Meloy keeps pace, anticipates an infinite autumn.
- A visit to E.L. Doctorow's tidy house.
- South African politicians root for Semenya's dignity; too bad it's not the same case for rape victims.
- Status of secret classification: a complete mess, but Obama is trying to fix it.
- Ten common strategic blunders in business and in war; Japan's first lady believes she's been to Venus.
- An automatic music generator, played by the moon.
- Remember the story of the rapper who got her doctorate on Warner Music's bill? It never happened.
- Appreciation of Japan's aesthetics of restraint: "The only way to leave a smaller footprint would be to die."
- Op: Mailer was a dunce and a bastard, never mind a shoddy author.
- Roosevelt was a divider, not a uniter; by gleefully waging class war, he got things done.
- Obama's Dreams from My Father places second in Travelodge's "books left behind" index.
- Because Britons are not reared on chilli, they have a tendency to view it as "macho" food. Chillies invade Britain.
- Bertrand Russell becomes a comic-book superhero of philosophy (really).
- Arab organization to be tried for publishing a cartoon offensive to Jews.
- List of inventors killed by their own inventions.
- Investigative reporter in Chicago gets mugged and investigates the racial angles.
- Instapaper for the commute: Big Times magazine profile of Spike Jonze's career thus far, and the differences between plot and attitude.