September 19, 2012: Afternoon
- The 47% statement is devastating—and a continuation of bizarre positions Romney's made on the fundraising trail.
- The limitations of Romney's foreign policy beliefs are revealed in his thoughts on dirty bombs.
- Noonan advises Romney on his options.
- Upper East Side priest distances himself from a weekly bulletin at his church endorsing Romney.
- Prior to election day, and in the final days of the congressional session, lawmakers address their pet projects.
- No one knows why Alaska's king salmon population is disappearing.
- Coder-activist charged with 13 felonies for hacking a paywall to download millions of academic articles.
- Webcam sites trade in misery, and the profits pour in—making them an ideal front for money laundering.
- British doctors warn overuse of painkillers can result in more frequent—and worse—headaches.
- Physicist explains what makes champagne bubbly.
- People feel that West Nile is something that happens to somebody else in some other ZIP code.
- Papyrus fragment suggests Jesus had a wife and a female disciple.
- Iranian foundation raises bounty on Salman Rushdie's by $500,000.
- Author Lionel Shriver, among others, will take MDMA and undergo clinical tests on BBC show.
- Warhol directs the Velvet Underground in a 1966 documentary.
- Bruce Springsteen, I discovered after ten years of estrangement from my father, had written the world's best song about being estranged from your father.
- A son tries to decide what do with the collection of more than 109,000 baseball caps he inherited from his father.
- Incredibly expansive comic from xkcd.