August 9, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Chait: Westen's complaint against Obama is rooted primarily in a lack of factual understanding of what Obama has done.
- NASA says it's found a spacecraft, lost since 1967, on the dark side of the moon.
- Cataloging the things we've left in space, e.g., statues, flags, CDs.
- Housekeeping satellites could solve our growing space junk problem.
- The Starship Enterprise is pretty lonely, when no one is around.
- Though "Eden" implies something that can't be found, the search has led from Iraq to Missouri.
- Italian newspaper claims KGB orchestrated the car crash that killed Camus.
- Mystery blonde in Elvis photo comes forward.
- Nicholson Baker's latest foray into sex sports a ribald vocabulary--e.g., "manjig," "chickenshack"-- but is surprisingly clinical.
- How to live your life like it's a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
- A map to the New York of American Psycho.
- Along the way to Keurig's 20-year rise to home coffee dominance: $2 billion and a false heart attack.
- Jonathan Stark spreads karma, opens his Starbucks card to the internet.
- "Inheriting the Hoard": an adult child's clean-up job when hoarder parents pass away.
- Jaws in the style of Peanuts.
