October 27, 2011: Morning
- Iraq vet hospitalized with skull fracture after being hit by an Oakland cop's tear-gas canister.
- Occupy protesters aren't upset about Wall Street's riches—they're angry about Wall Street's cheating.
- What to make of the Euro deal.
- Sikhs in northern Italy shore up the Parmesan industry against extinction.
- Philosophical questions around the morality of creating people.
- Touré mourns monoculture's demise.
- Parsing the difference between funny and unfunny puns.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan's new collection—like DFW's Supposedly Fun Things—proves he's the writer other writers currently envy.
- Hodgman creates book-trailer zenith.
- Klosterman: The Metallica/Lou Reed album is bold, admirable, and totally unlistenable.
- Trailer for new Herzog movie, Into the Abyss.
- St. Louis Symphony performs "ferociously precise rendition" of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
- Authenticity in decorating = dead.
- How the potato changed the world.