September 7, 2012: Morning
- Obama's speech played it safe and traditional, and kept the audience in its chairs.
- Clinton's speech nicely edited to show what he said versus what was written.
- Whatever jobs number is released this morning, it won't capture our real unemployment problems.
- Bin Laden received 21 mentions at this year's Democratic Convention; Hitler got none in 1948.
- Round-up of ridicule for Putin's flying-with-birds adventure.
- Amsterdam likely to ban selling weed to foreign visitors.
- Tickets for the London Paralympics sell out, and advertisers are quick to fill billboards.
- Amputee ball boy and girl garner attention at the U.S. Open.
- "Andy Roddick Retires at Top of Everyone Else's Game."
- Roddick became one of the greats when he lost Wimbledon to Federer in 2009.
- Email is at least 40 years old, but there's one guy who'd like to convince you it's only 30 (and it's his invention).
- Tribute to 1980s sitcoms' "very special episodes" and Tom Hanks as an alcoholic uncle.
- List of what different celebrities have smelled like at various times.
- New photograph of Emily Dickinson, second in existence, surfaces in Amherst, Mass.
- Zadie Smith lunches with Jay-Z.