November 1, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Appeals court reinstates most of Texas's abortion restrictions, which will remain in effect until January.
- Unfortunately not related: A sinister history of Halloween pranks, from riots to bigotry.
- Whatever Obamaism really is, it has run its course.
- Profile of John Ramsey, one of the Libertarian kids who are freaking out the Republican establishment.
- Cuckolded fathers are rare now and were rare then.
- During the Civil War, soldiers dreamed of being abandoned, wives dreamed of infidelity, civilians dreamed of "faraway, peaceful places."
- Near the Ayungin reef in the South China Sea sits an abandoned WWII ship manned by Filipino spies.
- See also: Beautiful, haunting photographs of bunkers in France left over from WWII.
- Photographer locates, meets, connects with, photographs the “last of the untouched.”
- Everywhere I’ve lived, coffee has been an overt symbol of my part in gentrification.
- Wall Street Journal goes big to compile a database tracking the American nuclear development effort.
- Experiments show biological and self-reported evidence that people experience happiness when others are hurt—i.e., schadenfreude.
- See also: "The Word You Dare not Spell."
- Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" while trying to solve the real-life disappearance of Mary Rogers in 1842.
- Among this year's best sexy Halloween costumes: Edgar Allan Ho.
- Halloween candy sales remain flat after two years; industry blames bad weather and day of the week.
- See also: Salvador Dali designed the wrapper of Chupa Chups lollipops.
- Trick-or-treating at the home of the pork rind magnate who staged his own murder.
