29 September 2009: Morning By The Morning News — 29 Sep 2009 Health care faces a new hurdle, as Congress tries to figure out how to prevent taxpayer dollars from paying for abortions. Polanski's attorneys helped provoke his arrest by complaining [that] prosecutors had made no real effort to capture the filmmaker. Video: How National Geographic photographers created a seamless image of a redwood tree from top to bottom. A grandmother is appalled that people choose to talk to their iPhones rather than their babies. Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred. "How to Write With Style," by Kurt Vonnegut. An unused William Safire speech, written in case Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon. William Safire's favorite New Yorker cartoon is a good one indeed. Disgraced politicians who've made comebacks, kind of. The close of summer brings an end to Jews for Jesus's heyday. Tell them they can call me He Who Doesn't Put Up With Shit Like This. How many names hath God? A new book about a "metrodox" Jew's year in church could have gone further by not traveling all that far. How celestial bodies are christened, and how a scientist named an asteroid after George Plimpton. Lucy Vodden, who inspired "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," passes away.
