5 October 2010: Afternoon
- 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.