Headlines from September 10, 2008

Intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president says the U.S. won't have much fun for a very long time.
McCain and Obama in a row over lipstick remark; Huckabee says cut Obama some slack.
On the Alaskan secessionist movement, of which Sarah Palin, says the group's leader, is "pretty well sympathetic."
Alaskonomics: Whatever Palin may be, she is not a "tough fiscal conservative."
Soros: In the absence of alternative sources, the price of oil is liable to rise indefinitely.
Matt Damon wants to know if Palin's ideas about dinosaurs come from The Flintstones.
McCain aides furious he's now dogging Obama on slowing funds for Future Combat Systems, since previously McCain wanted to kill them.
What's in store for North Korea if Dear Leader is, in fact, dead.
Fragments from "Palin! The Musical."
All I ever wanted to do was to play hockey. Ride my bike. Shoot shit. Fragments from Levi Johnston's secret diary.
Italians vote on least favorite English words to crop into their vernacular.
Hitchens on mild embarrassment about the very concept of being English.
"This couldn't have happened before the Internet. You can't organize a picket through a quarterly journal." Paul Collins and a troop of "spelling activists" protest the National Spelling Bee.
Print for the commute: With Georgia, the Russians have backed the Americans and Europeans into a corner.
David Foster Wallace motivational posters.
Gov. Paterson accuses the GOP of racial coding in its heckling of "community organizer."
White women voters are deserting the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama because of the sudden emergence on the Republican ticket of Sarah Palin.
Conservative talk host Reese Hopkins finds 70 cases of listeners' double standards on teen pregnancy.
McCain's acknowledgement of global warming and his new support for offshore drilling could have trouble fitting on the same platform.
Density is cost effective, it fosters small business development at the local level. The conservative case for urbanism.
After 21 months of sitting in U.C. Berkeley trees, four protestors give up their perches, surrender to police.
As salvia use continues its spread--igniting concerns and calls for regulation--hopes for its medical use dwindle.
Outside Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider completes its first major test--we're a step closer to understanding what composes the universe.
Don't be disappointed if the collider doesn't trigger the apocalypse--for physicists, finding the God particle will be much more exciting.
The webcast is limited to 2,000 connections! Who's the rocket scientist behind that? Live-blogging the LHC startup.
Op: The public is numb to the crisis in Somalia, but the population are experiencing a worst-case scenario--now is the time for policy makers to act.
North Korea denies reports Kim Jong Il is unwell, calling them "worthless" and a "conspiracy plot."
New high-fructose corn syrup commercials want you to know that anti-HFCSers are just plain crazies who talk crazy.