September 27, 2012: Afternoon
- Republicans aren't asking the other half of Reagan's question: "Do you feel safer than you did four years ago?"
- Romney's apparent fear of flying is worth mention—just being president requires intense physical hardiness.
- Related: Choire Sicha dons the Non-Expert blazer to explain the best day and time to book an airline flight.
- University of California to pay $30,000 to each of the 21 protestors pepper-sprayed by campus police.
- Crowdcrit and the war on silly things—e.g. Apple Maps, Bic for Her.
- Astoundingly detailed Katz's Delicatessen in miniature.
- Our bodies are designed to work best cognitively in the mornings, and physically in the afternoons—not that we pay attention.
- Eager to receive modern medical care, many Russians are signing up for experimental treatments.
- As evidenced by the recent 20/20 segment on binge drinking, news shows love a good moral panic narrative.
- I told my wife I couldn't go...I told her it wasn't appropriate for a man like me to dress up as a vicar.
- Excavators find the trunk of a 5,000-year-old giant oak in England.
- Arizona ski resort plans to make fake snow from treated sewage—local Navajo tribe warns it will desecrate sacred land.
- Leo Traynor meets his internet stalker.
- Listen to an unreleased album of Brian Eno's ambient music recorded for movie and TV backgrounds.