11 September 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 11 Sep 2008 She's the kind of broad who speaks on behalf of other broads but appears not to like them very much. On Palin's Bizarro-world brand of feminism. Every day, Everymoment Now tracks the number of articles that reference each candidate. Eerily absorbing: Graphing the candidates' use of individual words. The relatively recent origin of "lipstick on a pig" as an expression. Obama strains to keep Michigan from swinging right; for a state that's been blue since 1992, it's an uphill battle. Beckett for President: Yes We Can't. Political campaign posters from the high end of things. Joseph Stiglitz asks what our economy is based on, why we are so bad at managing financial risk. Hip-Hop Hospital II: O.G.-GYN. TMN's Todd Levin on the 100 DVDs still left in your Netflix queue. Once an aristocrat's cattle market, the middle classes got hold of classical music, wouldn't let go, suffocated it. Cambridge "personality map" deems New Yorkers the most neurotic and unfriendly in the U.S. As the credit-crunch bites, a New York architectural era comes to an end--includes before and after shots. [Warning, graphic photo.] Days after sweeping across the world, the photo was willed into disappearance; years later: Who was the Falling Man? Ed Ruscha recalls a photo he took of Lower Manhattan in 1961.
