On Tuesday, Rosecrans and Paul Ford will read at New York City’s KGB Bar at 7 p.m.. Rosecrans and Paul have an unlikely friendship, but we’re pretty sure this will be an event that TMN fans will not want to miss. Plus, there’s a party afterward.
* How the week ends: Michele Bachmann is no longer Swiss. * Photos of the lost town of Kaixian before it was flooded by the Three Gorges Dam project. * Round-up of energy-related conflicts around the world. * Speech transcripts show Obama using the word "extraordinary" an extraordinary amount. * Hedge-
* Ode to the secretary-spy who went to Saigon, and was the first American woman killed there. * Not-comic comic: Memories of being raised by an abusive mother. * Design-based solutions for water management in India. * Green-energy excitement of the day: Power from onion waste. * Philippe Starck designs gadget
* Rush-hour car-bomb attacks kill 40 in Damascus, part of an "alarming upsurge." * Explosions are passé in Hollywood—we have entered the era of the implosion. * Obama endorses same-sex marriage, a position he backed in 1996. * I think of all the gay kids out there who
* Dilemma for the Outer Banks: Preserving wild horses could threaten birds and nesting turtles. * State of the vaccine effort. * Journalism is being replaced. * Blogger uses the Journal to speak out after the Chronicle of Higher Education fires her for mocking Black Studies. * Brief, accessible piece on the state of nihilism—
* Greece's exit from the euro zone now looking increasingly likely. * Bomber given the advanced underwear device found to be a CIA and Saudi intelligence informant. * Economics lessons on how to negotiate with pirates. * Notes on why the "broccoli argument" is a rhetorical tour de force that
* America is "obscenely comfortable in conflating black with crime." * Responding to "Why Black Women Are Fat." * France's center-right party stares glumly at new paths in a post-Sarkozy future. * Part one of "Our French Connection"—figuring out what Americans think of
* Poll says North Carolina very likely to amend its constitution today to ban same-sex marriage. * Upgraded "underwear bomb" plot foiled before an AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) bomber could reach an airport. * Ethiopia cracks down on international adoptions as reports of fraud surface. * Nuclear-free
* Trove of Lehman emails demonstrates Wall Street's arrogance. * In Brazil, a growing economy demands more energy, but environmental concerns fuel protests against hydroelectric projects. * American pegs hardcore frequent fliers, including those with lifetime passes, for millions in losses. * Communism = integral to capitalism. * WaPo investigation into DC's
* World markets tumble in reaction to this weekend's elections in Europe. * Greek and French voters rejected austerity, throwing Greece into political uncertainty. * Sarkozy was always more our man than theirs, but he changed how the French see the presidency. * Slate on Paris, I Love You but You'
