5 October 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 05 Oct 2010 Boom in medical marijuana ads fuel western newspapers; features include "Toke of the Town." Vatican denounces Berlusconi for telling his favorite anti-Semitic joke. Swiss right-wingers caricaturize Italians as rodents. Cameron: "There is an element of American conservatism that is headed in a very culture war direction." Sarah Palin stalker now being guarded by local police from Palin-stalker stalkers. Failed Times Square bomber goes to life in prison unrepentant. Saudi Arabia makes Mariah Carey wear pants, sleeves, and modest necklines in media appearances. Photos: Rarely seen North Korea. Shenzhen locals get LED messages "about architecture and urbanism" in the bottom of their soup bowls. Vegas boom is over: a brief study in U-Haul pricing. Latest shooting involving Mexican drug-cartel pirates on the Rio Grande watershed threatens to become an international incident. Video: 30 years of software piracy. Why watching The Social Network in Seattle "is like watching Terminator in a room full of robots." List of books featured on Mad Men. Today's poems: Matthew Rohrer's "Poem for Starlings"; "Speech Therapy," by Dean Young.
