3 February 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 03 Mar 2008 AP, New York Times accidentally say Bush resigned. From George Washington to Jack Kennedy and PT-109 we have behaved as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people. Unrelated to Obama, but: Can a man become a magnet? Not permanently. Print for the commute: Michelle Obama, bearer of a smile "to be earned," on the distance between herself and her legacy. (Or: Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia.) Baker remembers Donald Barthelme in Birnbaum's Book Digest mini-interview today. The Rooster doth approacheth; kids benefitith from your bucksth. Some people are more benevolent than others: altruism and the common mind. How long are you willing to stand in line for free ice cream? How long are you willing to stand in line for $1.45? Riot probably could have been anticipated when you hand out free cash in New York. No matter whether pro or con, New York's intellectual self-regard makes us vomit. Personality type decrees preferred kind of robot. Thinking of Vermont as a northeastern version of Idaho because it's got rifles is sort of like thinking of the Village People as tough guys because they had a cop. Video: Twenty-one different accents, one woman. Science fiction to change your life; 50 crime writers to read before you die.
