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How Do I Get the President To Give My Disease an Awareness Month?
Why Senators Can't Stop Calling the Public Option "Robust"
How To Win a War on Terror, Sri Lankan-Style
So Did We Save the Amazon Rain Forest or What?
Will Joe Lieberman Filibuster Health Care Reform, or Won't He?
The New V Series Is Not About Obama—It's Just About Alien Iguanas
This Guy Has Had Both His ACLs Removed but Still Plays in the NBA. How?
My Taliban Captors Googled Me
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- The Slatest: Morning EditionIndependent voters favor Republican candidates; more bodies found in house of Cleveland rapist; opposition protesters in Iran clash with police; Martin and Baldwin to host Oscars. | Wednesday, 8:13 AM ET
- He Broke the MoldYou don't see great public sculptors like Augustus Saint-Gaudens anymore.Witold Rybczynskiarchitecture | Wednesday, 7:04 AM ET
- Buffett the Betting ManBernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans | Wednesday, 7:01 AM ET
- What a Difference a Year MakesHow last night's election results were bad for Obama. | Wednesday, 12:20 AM ET
- National Awareness Month Awareness Month How does the president decide whether your cause deserves a proclamation?politics | Tuesday, 7:53 PM ET
- Swine FluHere's what you need to know.Science | Tuesday, 4:50 PM ET
- No Ligaments, No ProblemHow can DeJuan Blair play without an anterior cruciate ligament in either knee?Juliet Lapidos | Tuesday, 4:46 PM ET
- What Does It Look Like To Win a War on Terror?In Sri Lanka, it's fewer suicide bombers, a real estate boom, and hundreds of thousands of Tamils still packed into overcrowded camps.Lionel Beehnerdispatches | Tuesday, 3:11 PM ET
- Guess Who's Coming To Eat Us for DinnerThe classic '80s series V gets a post-9/11 update. | Tuesday, 2:30 PM ET
- RPO SpeedwagonRobust, the unlikely new leader in health reform buzzwords.Bruce Reedthe has-been | Tuesday, 2:19 PM ET
- What Ever Happened to the Amazon Rain Forest?
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 4, 2009Eight Tips for Boosting Your Energy.Feeling energetic is a key to feeling happy. Studies show that when you feel energetic, you feel much better about yourself. On the other hand, when you feel exhausted, tasks that would ordinarily make you happy—like putting up holiday decorations—make you feel overwhelmed and blue.
- posted by Mickey Kaus on November 4, 2009Mineola Man Survives N.J. Nuclear Holocaust! What Liberal Bias? This is the main headline on the L.A.Times web home page : Dem score congressional victories in California, N.Y. From staff and wire reports | 9:42 p.m. The GOP fares better in Virginia and New Jersey as both states elect Republican
- posted by Samantha Henig on November 3, 2009In Support of a More Stringent Use of the Term ‘Douchebag’ A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans: There’s a funny spoof video up on Boing Boing framed as a PSA of sorts in support of douchebag solidarity. It features a handful of self-pegged douchebags, one pumping iron at the gym, another riffing for the amusement of drink-dangling babes
- After a brief hiatus, How I Met Your Mother returned this week with a new episode and set about addressing, once and for all, this season's nagging question: Can Robin and Barney be funny as a couple? The Shame Index is happy to report that the answer is a rather resounding yes . Shameful:
How Do I Get the President To Give My Disease an Awareness Month?
Why Senators Can't Stop Calling the Public Option "Robust"
How To Win a War on Terror, Sri Lankan-Style
So Did We Save the Amazon Rain Forest or What?
Will Joe Lieberman Filibuster Health Care Reform, or Won't He?
The New V Series Is Not About Obama—It's Just About Alien Iguanas