1 August 2008: Weekend
By The Morning News
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History of hospice care around the world.
Is Afghanistan a narco-state?
If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. The terrifying world of web trolling.
TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's latest Digital Ramble for The Moment: Storage space.
On Smiley, Joyner, Obama, and "anyone who makes a living talking about or to--or, especially, for--black America."
The secret curse of expert archers, so dreadful no one will speak its name: Target panic.
McSweeney's rejects Mike Mussina's seventh consecutive submission.
Tompkins Square Park, then and now.
Story of a drug dealer who started smuggling out blog-postings about prison after reading Gulag Archipelago.
In what critics are calling "food apartheid," Los Angeles bans fast food in low-income neighborhoods for health reasons.
Essay examining Beatles musicology with diagrams concludes they're the best band ever.
What Is Solastalgia? Solace + desolation + nostalgia.
"Like the dark-hearted queen of the night, thirst kept pursuing me." Murakami on how to run 100km in one day.
Hemon on how Karadzic made Bosnia suffer.
Diaz on how Grand Theft Auto IV isn't exactly the stuff of Coppola or Doctorow.