17 April 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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France's Caterpillar workers strike against an economic system "that makes men, women, and entire families suffer."
Bulletpoints on the state of South Africa compared to hackneyed headlines.
Summary of recent deft steps taken by Pakistani and American officials to defuse a crisis.
If Fred Astaire would not have worn it, don't wear it. George Will would like you to stop wearing denim.
Is it really a felony to put boogers in someone's food?
Entertaining account of Jeffrey Goldberg consulting experts, gurus, and a survivalist before firing his broker.
Round-up of Obama impressions, none great.
O-dumb-ah? You don't want to know what I think about
him. View from inside a Southern Californian tea party.
Rare photos of San Francisco's 1906 fire.
If the goal is a high-speed rail system to rival Europe's or Japan's, the most efficient way to get there may be starting from scratch.
From 1995, Edmund White on Nabokov's trick-filled short fiction.
Op: Boys calling each other "fags" has nothing to do with being gay, it's about being sexualized by society, even by parents.
Jay Leno exit interview for GQ gets shallow digs, but digs nonetheless, into dark material.
If you hate Comic Sans, you really don't know much about typography, and you should get another hobby.
