29 September 2008: Morning

The true farce and disgrace is that this increasingly glassy-eyed old blunderer and war criminal...should be cited as an authority by either nominee. Hitchens on Kissinger.

Fact checking: What McCain, Obama got wrong in the debate--and there was a lot.

On McCain's fondness for gambling, involvement in casino scadals.

As a last throw of the dice, McCain's campaign may be gunning for an Alaskan wedding--it has to help.

You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. Sarah Palin and George Orwell.

Follow the 2008 election with the Guilfoile-Warner Papers, a new blog at TMN.

Photos: Candids of pre-debate Obama.

Op: In terms of economic cycles and their stability, don't believe economists' "aura of permanent truth."

Most of the young Masters already have their own personal nut free and clear. Tom Wolfe on the weather in Greenwich.

Municipal Archive: What happens on the street in New York would happen on a stage anywhere else.

Paul Newman's greatest film moments; how he used his fame to give away his fortune.

Todd Levin on the final, disorienting minutes of the My Bloody Valentine show. (Our video here.)

Using book spines to tell new stories.