* What it's like to lose to Rick Perry. * Herman Cain is a fan of Pokemon: The Movie 2000—or its inspirational theme music. * Rembrandt drawing swiped in a "carefully planned heist" at a Marina del Rey Ritz-Carlton. * Legal analysis of the case against a New
* Blatant hypocrisy of Western censorship on web is ruinous to promoting democracy abroad. * Bay Area Rapid Transit "pulls an Egypt," turns off cell service to preempt protest. * Xinhua news agency delights in reporting on Cameron's (improbable) plans to censor the web. * Once the looters had left
* Vacationing Times-Picayune reporter busts Zabar's for selling crawfish as lobster salad. * How Roy Scherer became Rock Hudson and changed a generation's view of sexuality, twice. * Water bottlers find success targeting minorities. * Homeowners seeking originality plant bottle trees, the "modern pink flamingo." * Amazon.co.
* Pulling support for Syria, Saudi Arabia may doom the regime, prove ability to make or break others. * Unlike London, schools burned in Paris—both "dancing on volcano" of social injustice. * Never has the world economy depended so much on the success of developing nations. * Germans aren't
* The weight discrimination we observe in the labor market has its source in...the marriage market. * Anticipating a marriage, let the word games begin. * A brief story by Lionel Shriver about housing and marriage. * Erica Heller—who's never read Catch-22—and others write about life as the
* East Africa famine yet to peak, hundreds of thousands of people face starvation. * State Dept. indirectly intervenes in Somalia, financing mercenaries to train troops. * EDIT CONPLAN 3502 is the U.S. military's plan for assisting state and local authorities in the event of a riot. * Polish, Turkish, Somalian,
* An environmental group finds the Hudson is "chronically sewage-laden" around Albany. * A Hill lobbyist asks: How can I professionally lobby someone I personally rejected? * Study: People in unfriendly working situations more likely to die early. * When you leave the relative safety of the middle class, you might
* With many institutions broken, perhaps Britain's leaders can no longer protect the people. * Stereotyping rioters as young, black, and poor, ignores the complexity of who they really are. * Round-up of sociological and psychological explanation of riots. * The Endless Summer reminds us of perfection's potential in
* 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.
* Riots liveblog: British Parliament recalled, 16,000 police on streets tonight, but no army or curfew. * Young London rioters lack a legitimate future—nothing to lose, no reason to obey. * Watching the riots, Egyptian bloggers debate the differences between looting and protesting. * Riots organized not through social media, but on
