29 September 2008: Afternoon

  • Yo: Just in time for November, TMN's new blog: The Guilfoile-Warner papers.
  • Darien dinner with a Lehman trader; glinting the cocktails with Goldman-ites.
  • History has shown what happens when a number becomes the central communications theme. Analysis of Bush's mistakes in selling the "700 Club."
  • Indoor Tanning Association heartened by Palin's installation of a tanning bed in the Alaska governor's mansion.
  • Researcher finds Obama got more negative press coverage than McCain last summer.
  • Bernstein: No presidential nominee of either party in the last century has seemed so willing to endanger the country's security as McCain.
  • The (albeit fictional) Palin quote generator.
  • Bono is not the breeziest, briskest of bloggers.
  • Lil Wayne ain't all that breezy, either, when he blogs.
  • Sarkozy's socialist opponents bristle as he suddenly adopts their ideas, virtually reversing his ideological platform.
  • Short survey of the chaos in Pakistan, "an especially frightening case of strategic blowback."
  • New CDs are four to eight times louder than albums from the 1990s, and Metallica fans aren't pleased.
  • Print for the commute: Law comes into being and is sustained not because the weak demand it but because it is a tool of the powerful.
  • Nebraska begins allowing parents to leave children behind at hospitals, and parents begin doing so.
  • High school football team uses bizarro plays to win--improving their season, enthralling game theorists.
  • Gallery: The menace and brutality of New York's dog parks.

  • 2007 Rooster winner Diaz and Price on life in New York.
  • Poetry bailout will restore confidence of readers, urges postmodernist official.
  • A good day starts with a new poem by Anne Carson.