- Jack Shafer, “Kill NPR To Save It” – from the article: In what looks suspiciously like money laundering, the feds give money to CPB, CPB gives $90 million of it to member stations, and the local stations give a chunk of it to NPR.
- Tom Scocca, “David Brooks Has Some Notions About The Programs on Your Television Machine” – from the article: …David Brooks says TV has only just now started making shows about a “complex web of group relationships,” because “something deeper” has changed in society. So Cheers was probably way ahead of its time, the exception that proves the rule, right?
- Ario Farin, “Birds of a Feather” – you can enlarge the photos: those birds seem pretty well-fed to me.
- Jay Cost, “Special Bruce Banner versus the Incredible Hulk Edition” – from the article: Pennsylvania looks like it will go maybe +4-6 for Toomey and Corbett. I know, Mr. Cost has been emphatic: look at the polls of likely voters, look at the distribution of the electorate they represent. But some of the other polls are showing Toomey and Sestak nearly tied.