17 October 2008: Weekend
By The Morning News
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The U.N.'s Security Council is a farce; only serious states should apply.
Europe lacks one voice, even with Sarkozy speaking, and national interests trump transnational interests.
The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves office as conservative socialists.
Aviation Weekly on the new Iraqi fleet of counterinsurgency planes.
Poll surveys get different numbers depending, in part, on how they determine likely voters.
Op: The end of days approach-eth, and its name is Democratic supermajority.
Joan Didion, Russell Baker, other New York Review contributors on the election.
Brooks impresses [we were surprised, too--ed.] with portrait of Obama: self-contained, self-controlled, even dull.
The politics of political portraiture and why we assume good-looking means good.
View of the election from those who are descended from slaves held by the family of John McCain's great-great-grandfather.
How the Obama campaign's seen in Africa by citizens and by governments.
Photos from Obama, Japan.
Dearth of bananas in Japan attributed to new fad diet.
I think we can all agree that there's a master's thesis in here for someone. Pinker on nuclear vs. nucular.
Video: Fascinating tiny documentary on laboratory waste.
