August 28, 2012: Afternoon
- The RNC has a national debt clock familiar to New Yorkers, who may remember when it went in reverse under Clinton.
- Mitt Romney could become Ronald Reagan.
- Mitt Romney could become Richard Nixon.
- NYPD admits targeting Urdu speakers as potential terrorists—a problem since 80,000 New Yorkers speak it.
- It's the last week you can vote for a SXSW panel featuring TMN's Andrew Womack.
- The Colorado Rockies locate a winning strategy in pulling pitchers before they face batters a third time.
- Ben Zimmer explains why "YOLO" should technically be "YLOO."
- Profile of Scooter Braun, self-described "camp counsellor to the stars," and the man who made Justin Bieber.
- Some patients find that only when they stop getting tested and treated do they finally reach a state of health.
- Those with dementia find happiness in a Dutch village removed from their former lives.
- Leslie Harpold's "Possible Scenarios for Heaven."
- An oral history of Burning Man, from the people who created Burning Man.
- It's not "the Ukraine" or "the Congo"—there are only two countries that rightfully have "the" in their names.
- A bank clerical error sent $7 million to a man who then withdrew the money and went on the lam for nearly two years.