October 16, 2012: Morning
- Clinton says she's ultimately responsible for the safety of U.S. diplomats—dumping further hay on the pile.
- Color-coded guide to Angela Merkel's blazers.
- Study finds you can judge 90% of a stranger's personal characteristics by looking at their shoes.
- America's suits have gone silent in politics—backing Romney, but betting that Obama will win.
- Twenty-one page "memorandum of understanding" between the two campaigns and the Commission on Presidential Debates.
- Cheat-sheat for would-be presidential debaters: price of milk, price of bread.
- Researchers find vernacular differences between "black" and "white" American Sign Language.
- Never-seen notes from Kennedy's strategy sessions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Tensions between Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane flare again.
- Aesthetic and historical background behind "seasonal consciousness" in Japan.
- Paglia makes a flimsy case for George Lucas as "the greatest artist of our time."
- Radio operators, artists, and NASA are constantly bothering the moon—can't they just leave the poor moon in peace?
- Drawings of tiny post offices found during cross-country travels.
- Reason to ride America's trains: escape the internet and enter a K-hole of bliss.