Headlines from November 9, 2012
- Elections in obviously authoritarian regimes are even easier to forecast. The world can’t have a Nate Silver.
- Ready in case of a president-elect, Romney’s full Secret Service detail quietly departed after his concession.
- SEAL Team Six reprimanded for revealing classified information to video-game makers.
- The man boycotting all Democrats listens to Oingo Boingo because they once said they were libertarians.
- Former Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman supported Obama in 2008 and called Palin his “worst nightmare.”
- Wow, if I was rich, that’s how I would live! The Donald problem.
- The Washington Post‘s Jennifer Rubin problem.
- Occupy Wall Street’s new project: Rolling Jubilee, which will buy up debt in order to forgive it. #ows
- Help Lower Manhattan restaurants recovery from Sandy: Eat Down, Tip Up.
- In our latest TMN Weekender, a collection of trips to the New York you never knew. #tmn
- Every single named spot in North Dakota. #photos
- How to make a Mobius bagel. #food
- It is hard for me to imagine a time when bagels were not ubiquitous outside of urban centers, but that time was not so distant. #tmn
- In order to not ruin Star Wars VII, Disney should look to Casablanca. #movies
- The approach and tone should be dead serious. Suggestions for the new Star Wars trilogy.
- Kevin Smith: “All Disney needs to do is make a Boba Fett time-travel flick.”
- How Top Chef uses white plates, portable rigs, and Windex to make its signature food porn. #tv
- There was little available entertainment at the ranch. At 18, F. Scott Fitzgerald went native in the wilds of Montana.
- Obama’s reelection all but guarantees healthcare legislation will survive, but disinformation needs to be corrected.
- How two brothers busted a brutish Philly union and shifted decades of power—thanks in part to few viral videos. #longreads
- Foxconn considers opening U.S. factories owing to rising labor costs in China.
- On the lookout for self-immolation, designated fireman patrols Tiananmen during power handover.
- A Chinese girl videoed since birth helps us chart China’s enormous transformation. #watchitlater
- CNN’s reportage of claims Iran shot down a U.S. drone is Pentagon talking points lacking any skepticism or balance. #opinions
- From earlier this year: the U.S.‘s strategic envelope of bases around Iran, with interactive map.
- U.S. special forces operative/triathlete is on a mission from God in Burma, leading and training rebels to fight. #longreads
- I was relieved at the death of Osama. Q&A with a veteran Taliban commander.
- How Romney’s campaign infrastructure ended: The credit cards were cancelled before aides could pay for cabs home.
- Presidential appearances in the movies: Obama already at 21; Harding in 0; Lincoln leads field at 153.
- A real-life Spiderman suit and other possible uses for sticky “gecko material.”
- Government officials are slow to intervene even as India’s dengue problem worsens.
- Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert on the brain, decision-making, and why you can’t tickle yourself. #video
- It was the capacity for intimate relationships that predicted flourishing in all aspects of these men’s lives. #opinions