Headlines from November 21, 2012
- Rubio not so deftly dodges a creationism question—just like Sen. Barack Obama once did.
- Obama campaign adviser explains our broken voting system and why you had to wait in line for eight hours.
- As domestic U.S. flights are cut en masse, the best solution is more competition: Let in the foreign airlines. #opinions
- American Airlines to shutter air passenger service to focus on American Way magazine.
- Holiday Travel Hell: Eight writers recall eight trips to hell and back. #tmn
- New in the Costco freezer aisle: an entire Thanksgiving dinner that serves up to 10 people for $79.99.
- Their response indicates a sense of the preciousness and primacy of what still remains. What’s the point of giving thanks? #tmn
- Investigating complaints about an aggressive turkey, a local news producer loses her mind. #video
- Listen to one man sing with 300 turkeys.
- The meaning of “Black Friday”: It’s because nobody showed up for work—retailers are “in the black” long before November.
- How to give to the Catholic church without supporting its anti-gay efforts: Drop a giftcard in the collection plate.
- If the league was sold on sex appeal, it would have died a long time ago. Lingerie football gets legit.
- Bill Hader explains the creative process behind Stefon. #video
- R. Kelly has received an offer to bring Trapped in the Closet to Broadway.
- How the retro ethos is killing the future of music—or ensuring it, depending on how you look at it.
- The science of mustaches.
- I think he’s picking out the ones he wants. Jessica Francis Kane donates books to Goodwill.
- “Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc.”
- History of the sounds of war, from air raid sirens to the whirring of drones.
- How and why Obama’s foreign policy passed the Benghazi test.
- An epidemic of penis theft swept Nigeria between 1975 and 1977. Then there seemed to be a lull until 1990, when the stealing resurged.
- Nice meandering article about a young wilderness 20 miles outside Amsterdam that used to be underwater.
- Final patrols return from the hunt for kuru—disease caused by the eating of dead people.
- Each daily increase of three ounces of red meat is linked with a 12 percent greater risk of dying.
- Round-up of options for vegetarian and vegan folks at your Thanksgiving table.
- Call-to-arms for those who believe holiday turkey should be replaced by spaghetti carbonara.
- Profile of the man behind Batter Blaster, pancake batter that comes in a spray can. #video
- See also: Rogier Wieland’s cardboard-cutout stop-motion animations.
- Photographs of the 37 or so ingredients that go into a Twinkie.
- New York Times Thanksgiving-erator offers ideas for last-minute menus.
- For when your Thanksgiving meal descends requires a puzzle: Who owns the fish?
- It helps to know a bit about the history of Thanksgiving. Why we eat what we eat.
- See also: “Pie Is Not a Gel (and Other Thanksgiving Tips).”