by hilzoy Irin News reports on a little-known side effect of the market for Ecstasy: "The production of sassafras oil, which is used to make the recreational drug ecstasy, in southwest Cambodia, is destroying trees, the livelihoods of local inhabitants... Full story...
The incitement to global and domestic religious warfare before a McCain rally can be listened to here.
John Lewis: "What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen.
Theodore Dalrymple writes about apology projection: The False Apology Syndrome flourishes wherever there has been a shift in the traditional locus of moral concern.
And McCain, after a week of mud-flinging, keeps dropping. RCP's poll of polls gives Obama the biggest lead of the campaign, with another sharp drop for McCain this week.
Nicole Pasulka learns how to embalm a body: It turns out that, when embalming a body, the worst part comes last.
Dan Savage is running a special: The six biggest Savage Love donors to either www.noonprop8.com or www.
At a McCain rally, an invocation: "There are plenty of people around the world who are praying to their god, be they Hindu, Buddah, or Allah, that (McCain's) opponent wins.
That's her major theme today: Ms. Palin presented a litany of votes made by Mr. Obama that she described as “his unconditional support for unlimited abortions,” eliciting loud applause from a crowd gathered in a gymnasium-like building near this city’s.
A correction to the quote I posted from Ana Marie Cox last night. One of McCain's supporters called Obama an "Arab", not a "terrorist.
Thomas P.M. Barnett ponders the global financial crisis: Arguably, this is the first great, system-perturbing crisis of globalization, because it truly captures all the main players in a way that previous ones did not.
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