Headlines from November 3, 2009
- Barack Obama said he would rather be a one-term president than give up on his goals. Why the president must pull out of Afghanistan.
- Must read: Jon Stewart has an uncanny ability to catch public figures in their inconsistencies--without pushing his own agenda.
- A profile of the 27-year-old college dropout believed to be the savior of the Republican party.
- Bleach sales spike as swine flu paranoia rises.
- How unpaid sick days help the spread of H1N1: Your waiter doesn't get paid if he stays at home.
- "There is anxiety." If the H1N1 vaccine shortage takes out the health care workers, there's trouble for everyone.
- The current shortage of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine was both predictable and largely avoidable.
- Photos: Housed in an old mansion in Chicago, the International Museum of Surgical Science.
- I was with them during Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" but they literally lost me with Nirvana's "About a Girl." A TV critic reviews exercise shows.
- This week "Infinite Summer: Dracula" puts the final nails in the coffin.
- Kanye tells us reading hinders living--just think what you're missing out on right now.
- In my neighborhood, cigarettes are "mints" and smoking pot is "watering the lawn." Dispatch from a pot-smoking parent.
- The random weed name generator.
- Gorbachev: We brought the Berlin Wall down peacefully, now stop treating Russia like a fuel-supplying servant.
- Tour in photographs of inflatable Russian weaponry.
- Czech court clears way for Lisbon Treaty to pass and wily Klaus to save face.
- Creating myths from complicated events--e.g., Reagan demolishing the Cold War by hand--makes Americans foolhardy.
- Behold the power jean: denim as worn by world leaders.
- Paging Jack Donaghy: The problem of excessive executive pay is not about merit, talent, or fairness; it's about theft.
- Op: California isn't poor in money or water, but it allocates them in ways that benefit tiny minorities.
- New ocean forming in Ethiopia.
- The Koran is less literal than the Bible about a six-day Big Bang, but evolution doesn't necessarily square with all Muslims.
- History of SORAS, or, Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: the rapid aging of a television character.
- "A Story Before Bed" enables faraway parents to read stories to their children.
- Charts of movie character interactions.
- Examples of notes passed to bank tellers by robbers, annotated as successful or not.
- An obelisk tour of New York.