17 September 2010: Weekend

"No Koran" dude gets his wish: mug in High Times for "displaying bravery in the face of intolerance."

Seattle cartoonist who promoted "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" "goes ghost" at F.B.I.'s insistence.

Stewart and Colbert announce Oct. 30 rallies in D.C., "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "March to Keep Fear Alive."

Op: Americans, get ready for a profound shift: History does not go in a progressive direction.

It's time for us to stop getting hysterical about every slur launched at the president.

Views of the storm that attacked Brooklyn and Queens.

Video: Adam West's eyehole paintings will protect your home.

China's "science cops" brave murder attempts to fight pseudoscience and bean-peddling frauds.

U. of New Mexico wages internal battle after discovering a professor moonlighting as a phone-sex dominatrix.

From the Galleries: Photos of phone sex operators.

Designer invents spray-on, reusable clothing.

Jay McInerney's second-person saga about El Bulli, as it prepares to close forever.

CNN headine: "What to do when body parts fall off."

Saturday morning read: On cranes and actually becoming "cranish" as a person.

Thirty-three years later, remembering Maria Callas and "one of the great moments in recorded music."

TMN Llew Hinkes's track of the day: "Stranded" by the Walkmen.

TMN's Sarah Hepola and the great Kristen Schaal discuss sex and what it's like to be a hot dish.

Friday poem: "The Prelude" by Matthew Zapruder.