October 24, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- More people around the world are at risk of getting sick from toxic pollution than malaria.
- The foreign policy lies we believe.
- McGovern to Obama: We tend, as lawmakers and as citizens, to drift along with the familiar ways of thinking.
- The history of horses and bayonets in the army.
- On stage after the third debate, President Obama shakes hands with Mitt Romney's grandson.
- Two nights before the election, Obama will have a primetime role in the Weinstein-backed SEAL Team Six.
- Nighttime calls to random U.S. towns to find out what's going on.
- Millions of Muslims begin the annual journey to Mecca.
- Munich society seemed to function quite well, despite what must have been the most unbelievable hangovers known to man.
- Superman quits the Daily Planet, turns to blogging.
- Dior ad banned for photoshopping Natalie Portman after a complaint by repeat offender L'Oréal.
- Explained: Lance Armstrong probably won't be legally obligated to return his yellow jerseys.
- When the going gets tough, you need to reach down and find those obscure, untested, oxygen-boosting drugs that nobody has ever heard of.
- This is the last story ever written about cycling.
- The Flannery O'Connor soundboard.
- Ira Glass ties balloon animals, answers questions about blow jobs.
