October 20, 2011: Afternoon
- Former Libyan leader Gadhafi killed, says Libyan Prime Minister Jibril.
- Yankee fans take pride believing one of their own found Gadhafi in his hole.
- "Super-entity" of 147 companies, mainly banks, hold disproportionate power over the global economy.
- Jon Bon Jovi opens "pay what you can" restaurant in New Jersey.
- When wealth is too much concentrated in the hands of people who don’t need to spend it, it stops circulating.
- Brief reflection on why sandwiches and meals prepared by someone else taste better.
- People turn blue—actually turn blue—due to methemoglobinemia and argyria.
- TMN's Anthony Doerr on the nation's dropping groundwater supplies.
- Robert Birnbaum in conversation with director/writer John Sayles.
- Patsy Cline quotes about writing, sort of.
- Evangelical pastor who got the Judgment Day wrong predicts the Apocalypse for tomorrow.
- Product catalog for Rapture-ers.
- NIeman Marcus Christmas book includes a $125,000 custom-built library.
- Name changes in Britain 10 times more popular than they were a decade ago.
- Single scenes from Criterion Collection films culled, discussed, and shown.
- Sick days, then and now.