11 May 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 11 May 2009 Sudan appoints wanted war criminal to govern potential north-south flashpoint. National honor won't be restored until we give up scapegoating rank-and-file soldiers for their commanders' crimes at Abu Ghraib. Vaclav Havel: The U.N.'s Human Rights Council is a shameful farce. Army contractor who revenge-killed handcuffed prisoner gets no jail-time in sentencing. The VQR's Ted Genoways throws down a gauntlet manifesto for university presses and journals. I can't believe how wonderfully unreal this reality is. Notes from a seminar on the apocalypse. Most people in the medical business hate the hospital gown, but new designs aren't selling. Medical account of worst drinking story ever. Grey Poupon latches onto Obama's account of preferring Dijon for new ad campaign. Prague's golem--supernatural crisis monster--proves more popular during economic collapse. Venetia Phair, who as a girl named the planet Pluto, dies at 90. Video: Little human dictionary displays freakish brain. Screenshots of Wolfram Alpha, a new way to experience the web and "potential Google killer." Lovely charts illustrate The Stranger's survey of contemporary sexual behavior. Top 50 moneyed and powerful gay Americans. Ze Frank, under a pseudonym, feels bad about pretending to be a third person who made Ashton Kutcher feel bad.
