18 May 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 18 May 2009 Remember when we lectured China on good fiscal practices? Lessons the teacher forgot. Bhutan is prepared to export Constitutional concept of gross national happiness. If your times are hard, then it's time for Hard Times with Ze Frank. Instapaper for the commute: The pharmaceutical downfall of the greatest quarterback who never was. Brief profile of Sasha Hemon really makes us wish his Bosnian columns were translated into English. Late on this, but still: the Vanity Fair profile of Sulzberger, for whom everything is at stake. Notes on the struggle to define feminism in an age of Jezebels: "hard-drinking, bone-idle dickheads." Evocriticism: Fiction in light of natural selection. How do I love thee? Let me show you an MRI. Remembering the day the Velvet Underground played for psychiatrists--"Lou's revenge" for being given electric shock treatment. Yusef--formerly Cat Stevens--resurfaces for rare show in L.A. The pleasure of people who live in a place is second to the pleasure of people who invest there. Ebert reminisces about Cannes. Zine of the day: Flurb, a webzine of astonishing tales. Open letter to the parents of young swimmers on appropriate competition-time behavior.
