November 23, 2011: Afternoon
- State Dept. fingers Egypt's military rulers—"a government in power that the U.S. largely supports."
- Story of the American torturer on trial in Guadalupe that's being ignored by the American media.
- Q&A with the new Times comedy critic.
- For female writers, an opinion is "the short skirt" of the internet.
- Telemarketers use "call laundering" to disguise their identities on caller ID.
- Pretty portraits of deadly snakes.
- Remembering the Concorde, "the symbolic rallying point for environmental protest."
- Musing on which technologies should be forbidden to elite athletes.
- Image demonstrates—whether you see Einstein or Marilyn Monroe—if you need glasses at your computer.
- Straight girl's guide to frequenting gay bars.
- Jason Gay's 32 rules of Thanksgiving touch football.
- Pardoned turkeys: Where are they now?
- Infographic explains where you should sit at the Thanksgiving table.
- Puzzle to consume all minds when Thanksgiving conversation begins to drive you mad: Whose Fish?
- Truman Capote's "The Thanksgiving Visitor."
- Exchanges between Thornton Wilder and Gertrude Stein.