Late Night Open Thread

John should be back online tomorrow with plenty of updates but for now, jump in with the news at this late hour.
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Email From A 'Friend': Stop Persecuting ME!!!

Check out an email I got this week from an ex-coworker and friend of almost 20 years:

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I found this to be very truthful and interesting.
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Bernanke's nomination hearing set for early December

Although he shouldn't go through, he probably will. We will hear plenty of big talk but then very little action.
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Sharia Law Barbie!

It's Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha.
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Will Catholics Deny Communion to Gay Marriage Supporters?

U.S. Catholic Bishops have made a giant leap toward using Communion as their next political weapon, with Rhode Island’s bishop telling Rep.
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Wonderwoman

My column plumbs the amazing powers of a certain someone: Palin is indeed a feisty Alaskan and a genuine triumph of red-state feminism.
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H1N1 flu deaths rising in UK

Most people in Europe were expecting the H1N1 flu to hit hard in October, though it never quite materialized then.
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Beyond Intuition

Razib Khan builds off the arguments in Michael Specter's new book: [S]erious problems emerge when our intuitive prejudices push themselves into the scientific domain.
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Patrick Kennedy refused communion; 90-year-old grandmother stops donating to Catholic Church

It was just revealed in a NYT report that in 1997, Rep. Patrick Kennedy was told to stop receiving Communion by a Rhode Island bishop because of the congressman's public stance on "moral issues.
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The Decline Of Empires

A fascinating way to look at it: No visualization of American power yet. But look how quickly empires tend to implode.
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Corvino: The slippery slope of religious exemptions

This morning, I didn’t feel like getting out of bed. I wasn’t sick; just tired. But I had a full workday scheduled.
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A Long-term Suggestion

John McWhorter asks Obama to end the drug war: [P]erhaps the unemployment crisis, the real estate crisis, the health care crisis, and even global warming are more urgent matters in the grand scheme of things just now.
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In Whom We Trust?

Clay Shirky ponders trust on the web: Authority...performs a dual function; looking to authorities is a way of increasing the likelihood of being right, and of reducing the penalty for being wrong.
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A weekend of shredding

Weekend b*tch and moan session...

Kate and I spent most of yesterday and a good portion of today going through all of the junk mail, catalogs and magazines that have piled up in the last several weeks.
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Mental Health Break

The really cool parts begin at the 1:00 mark:
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Thanksgiving questions and answers

A pretty good list to prepare for the big day. A few years ago a friend brined her turkey (with the Alice Waters recipe, of course) and I would never go back.
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Document Of The Day

"There is a virus of disrespect and hate spreading here very rapidly. And unless one lives right here with it, day in and day out, it is unbelievable how quickly and subtly it infects reasonably intelligent persons.
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For How Long Will Unemployment Keep Rising?

A reader said the current counter-recession policies felt like "Mission Accomplished" all over again.
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The Neuroscience Of Reading

Stanislas Dehaene, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, gives his view of the brain: What I am proposing is that the human brain is a much more constrained organ than we think, and that it places.
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The Uncanny

Joe Kloc examines why we get creeped out by lifelike robots and lifeless bodies: Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than.
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