September 6, 2012: Afternoon
- Depending on who he's standing in front of, Romney continues to shift his abortion stance.
- Except for some minor exaggerations, the facts in Clinton's DNC speech check out.
- How to commit blasphemy in Pakistan.
- Federal appeals court rules cities cannot randomly seize and destroy the property of the homeless if left unattended.
- Warhol Foundation to sell off remaining inventory and focus on building its grant programs.
- Related: The diaries of Andy Warhol, terrorism czar.
- CDC announces the current West Nile outbreak is the worst the U.S. has ever seen.
- Researchers find a fifth of the human genome—once called "junk" DNA—regulates the manufacture of proteins.
- If humans are like mice, sleep disruptions may be a predictor of Alzheimer's.
- Neighboring Midtown pizza parlors end price war.
- The "Strange Fruit" songwriter was a Bronx Jew involved in the Rosenberg espionage case.
- The results of a 1929 ranking of the best American novelists.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson pitches the Snuggie on the Home Shopping Network.
- TMN's Paul Ford interviewed by Aaron Lammer at Longform.
- The quotable Cat Power.