21 September 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 21 Sep 2009 Petraeus: Iran is the biggest state-based threat to stability, but it also makes recruiting partners much easier. Op: The most radical style and culture can be found only at the opera. Canada is the world's top destination for spies; "Ottawa is crawling with them." Yes Men distribute climate-catastrophe fake but factual New York Post. I know of no purely rational reason for anyone to be optimistic about the human future. Op: Tennis pros would win more frequently by challenging more calls. Synopsis of how the Air Force has changed, including planes without pilots. Synopsis of how the world has changed, as seen in brief tutorial in getting a car towed in France. I feel the force of her amiable beauties. George Washington, America's original political lothario. TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin searches for back-to-school aesthetics in a Digital Ramble. Light reading: Forty-four years of The Public Interest. Video: Sacks explains Charles Bonnett syndrome, when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. Surf photos by Brian Bielmann, finding the big-wave shots other photographers don't notice. I don't go for quiet epiphanies. Alexsandar Hemon on Sarajevo and the Bosnian diaspora. Book blog The Millions to count down the best books of fiction so far this millennium. Instapaper for the commute: Recent marvels and future freak-outs in synthetic biology.
