5 December 2008: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Instapaper for the park: How young voters, progressive momentum, are ours to lose: Yes We Can do what, exactly?
Spitzer: We shouldn't rescue financial institutions that are too big to fail--we should invest in smaller ones that can.
November 1996: Early reports of custom-made Hummer limos appear. The rise and fall of the now-discontinued Hummer.
Architects solicit advice from skateboarders on buildings that attempt to be "flowing and continuous."
Jim Carrey will loom large in posterity...because his filmography amounts to a uniquely sustained engagement with the problem of the self.
On the uses of minimalism in Star Wars, and how the destruction of the Death Star was a turning point for modernism.
In this case there were chainmail bikinis, burlap loincloths, and a spaghetti-eating contest. A trip back in time to the Texas Renaissance Festival.
The book's four sections are dedicated to butter, lard or pork fat, poultry fat, and beef and lamb fat.
Introducing The Morning News Annual: 21 collected works from the past year, plus new stories by TMN writers.
Fifty years of Pelican book covers.
Underwater sea-cam captures shot of squid with elbows.
Photos: Venice under water.
New in the Onion's continuing Bush assaults: "Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade for 26 Blocks."