3 October 2008: Weekend By The Morning News — 03 Oct 2008 U.S.-India nuclear deal is quickly and quietly going forward, though with more loopholes than previously discussed. Police say no link between anti-Muslim DVDs and a child attacked at an Ohio mosque (see more). Palintology: Imagined creationist, war-room cartoons with a President McCain. Op: "The founders didn't have the slightest idea that the vice presidency would episodically explode in our face." Schlesinger in 1974 looks at veeps through history and wonders if we actually need them. Op: Most Democrats don't understand that politics is more like religion than it is like shopping. Story of a regular guy who got it together to run for the Maryland House of Delegates---then lost to a 26-year-old corporate lawyer. The failure of our financial system to do what it is supposed to do matches in destructive grandeur the macro-economic failures of the Great Depression. What $700 billion could buy in the developing world. Summary of what's new in African soccer. Researchers on whether the financial crisis can be blamed on skyrocketing testosterone. Where the anti-vaccine movement came from, and how it came to falsely link vaccines with autism. Notes on the evolving definition of death and a plan for irreversibly brain-damaged patients to donate organs while still alive.
