10 September 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 10 Sep 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.
