October 10, 2012: Afternoon
- "Romney frantically figuring out how tax plan could actually work after realizing he might win election."
- The complex history of presidents trying to be funny.
- A bad lip reading of the first 2012 presidential debate.
- Old Economy Steven has it better than his parents—and his kids.
- U.S. no longer has a Protestant majority—mainly because fewer Americans claim a religious affiliation.
- Ancient drugs and where to get them.
- Related: Their minds, they said, had blossomed and contracted with the universe.
- Polanski underage sex scandal victim, now 47, to publish memoir in fall 2013.
- In 1959, the British Foreign Secretary predicted post-Empire Africa—and was correct on some counts.
- Honduras offers gang members a new life, starting with tattoo removal.
- "Internet tsar," novelist among high-profile donors who have saved UK's Orange Prize.
- What to know about living in New York.
- Sarah Hepola: "Here Is Everything I Learned in New York City."
- Pandora CEO announces attractive earnings for artists: $135K to Bon Iver, $3M to Drake, Lil Wayne.
- Detroit rapper Danny Brown visits the most recent Gathering of the Juggalos.
- Cartoonists pay tribute to Matt Groening's Life in Hell.