Headlines from May 15, 2008

The new White House tactic in shorthand: Vote for Obama, vote for acquiescing to Nazis.
McCain: Bush is exactly right about that.
Rauschenberg's has been a life well lived. As for his art, it stank in the 1950s and it doesn't look any better today.
Op: "New yardstick for the size of the universe" is Kanye West's ego, and that's not a bad thing.
Instant messaging as a "linguistic renaissance" that improves upon spoken vocabulary and grammar.
New study reveals that having an older brother may affect your reproductive success.
Social success in junior high depends as much on the perception of being well-liked as it does on actual popularity.
Catcalling is probably not OK, student writes in master's thesis.
Blog for those who would combine economics with feminism.
Mixing baseball with France: the mayor who believed.
Chicago ends ban on foie gras; 300 years later, British courts regretfully abolish the wearing of wigs.
I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut. Scalia: the NPR interview.
Loanables: eBay for borrowing your neighbor's stuff.
Republicans fear joblessness in November, especially from conservative Democrats who could "take our issues."
Op: Besides "hammering yet another symbolic nail into Clinton's already subterranean coffin," what Edwards's Obama endorsement really means.
As the race for the Democratic nomination winds down, a look back at its misogyny.
On gently nudging Clinton donors to settle for Obama.
"I am too busy to write, I will let you know more when I am free." Emailed reports from the Szechuan province.
The greatest novels for and about procrastinators; the differences between procrastination and writer's block.
Six houses--castles, estates, minimalist glass-walled apartments--with imagination.
A 19-year-old college freshman is elected mayor of Muskegee, Okla., on a platform of "openness."
Polar bears now officially a threatened species, soon to be officially endangered, thanks to global warming.
A history of man and animals, in graffiti.
Photo comparisons of Liberty City and New York City.
"Is it like a very, very long Jewish holiday?" Calvin Trillin, New Yorkers marvel at the suspension of alternate-side parking.
"The hotel really is a milestone for the commercialization of The Sound of Music for Salzburg."