13 August 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 13 Aug 2009 Afghan blogger gains massive following, founds blog school despite lack of computers in Afghanistan. Ambassador Holbrooke says Colbert's take on the Afghan elections "got it pretty accurately." Op: The U.K. got the school-fees question right, America did not, and let's keep it that way. Hawking corrects op-ed, says without British public health he'd be dead. "Dead by Mistake:" painstakingly researching stories to illustrate the ineptitude of our health care system. The law says you retain the right to a sex life wherever you reside--though apparently not in nursing homes. Muslim bathing suits--the "burkini"--under attack in France. You can't visit any time before your time machine was built. Important principles of time travel, real or imagined. Inventory of right-wing media hosts stirring the crackpots. Notes on the insurance business in high-risk lava zones. Saabs incur "the highest levels of psychological involvement," more than 10 times the passion for Volkswagens. Instapaper for the commute: How "The Beatles: Rock Band" came about. Interview with Alison Gopnik about the thoughts of babies. Audio: Mark Doty's "Gone," from Radiolab's meditations on death. Revised generational periodization scheme (from a larger catalogue of Anarcho-Symbolists).
