29 September 2008: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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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.