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McCain calls on Alaska’s Stevens to resign.
The Anchorage Daily News: “It is Sen. Obama who truly promises fundamental change in Washington.”
Those who despise science… are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. Hitchens on Palin’s anti-science stance.
Op: No other Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race.
Conservatives following Blankley and Rush are being led down a magical path to irrelevance.
Sarah Hepola: How the financial crisis ruined my love life.
See also: Profile of Hepola’s super-powered ability to weep.
Instapaper for the commute: Profile of “the godfather of Bangalore”; profile of Greg Carr’s investments in Mozambique.
Chicago Tribune report on Japan’s most famous Obama impersonator.
“Your travel guide to Illinois’ ghosts, local legends, and best secrets.”
Photos of coughs, gas leaks, and other invisible things that cause micro-changes in air density.
When we awake Nov. 5, no failure of administration should have tarnished our outsize pride in our democracy. Election workers must rely on backup strategies, not litigation.
In Indiana, call center workers protest McCain scripts, walk off job.
Envy and arrogance are the two opposite sides of the same black crystal. Teddy Roosevelt ponders the bailout, the campaign.
Today’s long read: In the war on urban poverty cities are not victims, zoos won’t help, another round of federal investment isn’t the answer.
Scott Horton: Sarah Palin doesn’t need to fear “a socialist state in which American freedoms are undermined”—it’s already here.
“I’m not defending this; I’m not criticizing it.” West Hollywood house hangs Palin effigy on a noose; police say it’s not a hate crime, it’s Halloween.
Do you understand The New Yorker’s cartoons? Take the test and see.
The seven types of pet costumes; TMN’s Geoff Badner and Todd Levin cover the Fort Greene dog costume parade.
Video: The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne shows off his double-neck “Guitar Hero” guitar.