Afflictor: Believing Canadian weirdo Ted Cruz may have spent too much time on his feet this week.
My dogs are barking.
Too bad you don’t have Obamacare, Fatty.
Let’s take an arm, too. Just because we can.
- Old Print Articles: Two boys attacked by bald eagle in California (1895) + Giant skeletons found in New Mexico (1902).
- Classic Photograph: Franz Reichlelt discovers he cannot fly (1912).
- Featured Videos: Richard Schickel moderates an Alfred Hitchcock press conference (1976) + Gypsy Boots, early beatnik and health nut, visits Groucho Marx (1955) + Jacqueline Susann and Irving Mansfield on odd game show (1971) + Conrad Hilton, great hotelier with suspect genes, visits Art Linkletter (1954) + Immanuel Velikovsky was brilliant yet espoused pseudoscience (1964) + Commercial for Computer Football, which was not computerized (1969) + Happily, Monty Hall is alive; sadly Phil Hartman is not (1973/79) + Monty Hall meets Marc Maron + Garry Kasparov recently talked chess and politics with David Frost + Chet Huntley reports on the troubled Apollo 13 mission (1970).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Have you also given up? + I’m going t let you pin me a lot + For some reason, I spent $100 on alcohol I don’t like + Oh, and I may have used cocaine 6,000 times.
- Thomas Frank brilliantly lays out all of modern academia’s many woes.
- David Graeber believes OWS-style protest is in its infancy.
- Tiny sensors make hushed conversations prone to snooping.
- Steve Wozniak wishes for vocal-correct.
- Seymour Hersh believes the Osama bin Laden raid story is fiction.
- Walter Isaacson believes U.S. and Russian interests intersect in Syria.
- Isaacson writes about Bill Gates’ early years.
- War, not agriculture, may have led to complex societies.
- Gun violence in America may be a humanitarian crisis.
- Scott Boras proposes a revamped World Series.
- Junot Diaz recommends a few short-story collections.
- Short-story writer Terrence Holt describes reading without physical books.
- Charles Bukowski, a raging and violent alcoholic, is used for a scotch ad.
- Will Tesla do for electric cars what the space race did for the moon?
- Alan Weisman’s new book sees population as a crisis.
- Computer game Second Life continues apace without the cachet.
- David Schoenfield examines the problems of baseball umpiring.
- Jack Shafer suggests ESPN become a hard-news benefactor.
- Jeff Bezos reveals a little about his WaPo plans.
- Margaret Atwood has concerns about bioengineering.
- Michael Specter takes down an anti-GMO documentary.
- Autonomous cars are safe, but how safe can they become?
- Our tech tools change more the longer we own them.
- The American lifespan doubled in the last century and a half.
- Robert Reich discusses American economic inequality.
- Some Americans have managed to not use the Internet.
- Is it sufficient to experience nature through technology?
- Robots can fool us into loving them.
- Joan Didion was interviewed a week after 9/11.
- Social-security numbers were not meant to be national IDs.
- The hot-hand theory in basketball might be a little true.
- A brief note from 1912 about a machinist’s nose.
- A brief note from 1901 about boaters.
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