13 September 2007: Morning

  • Bush to sell his limited Iraq pullout as plan to unify America, prior to entering the election jaws.
  • Two soldiers who helped author last month's big Times op-ed killed in Baghdad.
  • Directions provided by Subway manager show isosceles cheese triangles part of sales conspiracy.
  • Op: Those who say the U.S. isn't preparing to attack Iran are buying into big-time denial.
  • Peggy Noonan ranks the Republican candidates with debating powers in mind.
  • Thinking of 9/11, MOCA chief curator picks artists to ponder.
  • Point: Attention must be paid to the current flowering of playwriting talent; Counterpoint: Forget black-box one acts, we need big plays in big spaces.
  • Instructions for those who write for radio on how not to sound like police.
  • Cynthia Ozick's picks for which books a critic should keep on her shelf.
  • Pinker the optimist: Today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth.
  • Reverse anthropology when five peaceful South Pacific Islanders arrive to study Britain, home of their god, Prince Philip.
  • Japanese video game decimating the population of real-life species of Turkish beetle.
  • Reducing our time on earth, American toxic sites get profiled with new data each day.
  • Americans who want to improve the environment should not have that baby, or at least not a second one.
  • Monocle's index of that which improves your life, like Tokyo jogging routes, or parking attendants in Seoul.
  • Someone's life improved by exhaustively cataloging attractive record sleeves.
  • In this week's Mp3 Digest, Andrew Womack chronicles everything attractive about T-Pain.