May 23, 2012: Afternoon
- Irony in Zimbabwe's gradual improvement: Mugabe is necessary for now.
- Senior GOPers increasingly bullish about Romney, whom they winced over during the primaries.
- Analysis finds most members of Congress speak like high school sophomores.
- Egypt's election matters because "its winner will assume a crucial role" in far broader struggles to come.
- Soon to come: Twilight, the religion.
- "Kardashian" as unit: the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day.
- Savage takedown of new Hirst show.
- Woman who pled guilty to manslaughter believed by activists to have been "on trial for surviving a hate crime."
- Story of the 1965 effort, visiting more than a thousand towns, to record America's "other language."
- Incredibly detailed inside-baseball account of 30 Rock's production.
- Musings on the internet's effects on the ultra-Orthodox.
- Arachnophobia—fear of spiders—cured with two-hour treatment.
- Tokyo transsexual cooks and serves his own genitals at public “Ham Cybele” banquet.
- Teddy Wayne and TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin talk about Mexican food in Paris, France.
- See also: Mexican food reviewed in Paris, Texas.
- Spirits professional offers advice on how to find good food in American bars.
- Tips on how to look better in photographs.
- Poem for your Wednesday afternoon: "Spring Reign" by Dean Young.