Afflictor: Imagining what America would look like during a Ron Paul Administration, since 2009.
- Classic Film: Coma (1978).
- Old Print Articles: Cowboys on bicycles (1895) + Monkey commits suicide (1889) + People hypnotized for no good reason (1893).
- Classic Photograph: Skylab prepares to descend (1974).
- Featured Videos: Elton John arrives at Dodger Stadium (1974) + Merv Griffin interviews Amityville Horror couple (1979) + The birth of cashless transactions (1969) + Dinah Shore interviews Michael Jackson (1976) + Joe Pyne interviews F. Lee Bailey (1966) + Clifford Irving gets caught in a monstrous lie (1972) + Mike Wallace interviews Salvador Dali (1958) + The Carpenters perform on David Frost’s show (1970) + Todd Haynes tells Karen Carpenter’s story (1983) + Barbara Walters interviews Claus von Bülow (1986) + Dennis Hopper reignites his career (1986) + Allen Ginsberg recites a poem for William F. Buckley + How to make tanks invisible + How to grow produce in shipping containers.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I seem to not realize that I’ve become a pimp + We’re thisclose to becoming prostitutes + Maybe you should take the bus + What bothers me most about murder is the lack of planning + The world may be ending, so waste your precious time + Looking for ideas for offensive Halloween costumes.
- A conservative stalwart gives up on the insane GOP.
- Douglas Rushkoff wonders whether jobs are passé in America.
- The mass-market paperback is finally dying out.
- David Mattin tries to make sense of the recent London riots.
- Recalling Syd Barrett’s odd journey through life.
- Where the GPS revolution is taking us.
- Do baseball umpires exercise ethnic prejudice?
- Face-recognition technology continues to proliferate.
- One sperm donor is responsible for 150 children.
- Looking back at the mouse-centric science of James B. Calhoun.
- Margaret Mead discusses speeded-up America in 1968.
- Everything you always wanted to know about Tommy John Surgery.
- The odd and irritating affliction known as Misphonia.
- Technology in the classroom doesn’t seem to be raising test scores.
- The 1972 article that made Joyce Maynard famous (and infamous).
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.