March 15, 2012: Afternoon
- Taliban suspends talks with the U.S.; Karzai calls for troops to leave now.
- Over five years, Gail Collins has mentioned Romney's dog-on-roof goof in at least 50 New York Times columns.
- Conservative analysis of Democrats' Maine problem.
- Despite "transparency week," the White House pushes to cover up potential threats and wine selections.
- When spies divorce.
- Before planking, before owling, before Tebowing, there was hunkering.
- Today in our eighth annual Tournament of Books, Haven Kimmel pleads for scotch.
- See also: LA Times's Carolyn Kellogg tracks down #TheRooster's book-bracket imitators.
- Faced with a difficult problem? New "generic parts technique" suggests breaking down to parts.
- Corporate boards mull what to do with CEOs who fly their own planes; one answer: provide a co-pilot.
- Depression-era photographs retouched to become women-only.
- Since you were wondering: If you eat a person who has an infectious disease, will you get the disease too? Maybe.
- How to make a Shamrock Shake at home, with real milk.