All stories published by The Awl on August 18, 2009

All Stories published by The Awl on August 18, 2009

Dave Bry in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Twenty Year Anniversary Of F.B.I. F’ing Itself

Dave Bry in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

“My man King built a car wash, a barber shop, a fish store, and a convenience store and a beauty parlor. All inside this bread truck.”

With its tough, minimalist beat, and a chopped-up of vocal snippet from Biggie Smalls’ “Dead Wrong,”…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

The Awl, The Song

We recently got in touch with a popular recording artist who happens to be an admirer of The Awl. This musician expressed an interest in contributing to the site, and we’re happy to announce that the result of our conversations is a regular column that should start up in the very near future…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

My Snoring Is Going To Kill Me?

I don’t know if it’s my advancing years or my expanding waistline, but stories like this one are starting to scare the crap out of me.

Severe nightly episodes of interrupted breathing during sleep — commonly known as sleep apnea — double the risk…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

There Are Good Things About This Modern Age!

This weekend just got 300% awesomer. Why? Because I was embarrassed to go see the…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Revisiting Partition

Who was responsible for the partition of India? Traditionally the blame has been placed on Pakistani founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah. But: “A controversial new book by a senior politician from India’s Hindu nationalist party suggests that Mr Jinnah, a secular man who drank and smoked but…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

“Dancing With The Stars” Makes The Philadelphia Eagles Look Like A Model Organization

Yesterday it was the announced that former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be a contestant this season on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.” Politico reports that “Inside the…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Happy 19th Amendment Day, or, We Have Always Had Birthers

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified 89 years ago today. I’m not really sure what it says because, you know: too long, didn’t read! And besides, you know how those politicians are, always sneaking in little bits of…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Robert Novak, 1931–2009

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

The Weinsteins, David Segal and Some Sharon Waxmanfreude

Bloggers. You never know who or what they know! Who they have had lunch with. Or what mustard company is giving them money to blather about delicious French’s© mustard, which I just can’t get enough of this season! What a mustard…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

How Did I Never Know This Was A Sport?

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Hacker Shatters Own Record In Crowded Field Of Identity Theft

Kind of amazing: “A former government informant known online as ‘soupnazi’ stole information from 130 million credit and debit card accounts in what federal prosecutors are calling the largest case of identity theft yet…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

The Death of the Public Option: The Sloppy White House Healthcare Briefing

Oof, today’s White House briefing! It just ended. It is ridiculous, and sort of tense, like alligators wrestling for sex. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggests if perhaps there were two…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

DNA Dangers

Well that’s just great: “Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.” Even better, DNA scavengers could potentially lift someone’s genetic code from a stray hair…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

7-Eleven’s New York City Takeover

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 17, 2009

‘Kind Of Blue’ At Fifty

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Giant Fish Was Not Murdered: Taxidermist

"Her lips were full, sultry or sulking, her expression unblinking"

Finally, a bit of closure: “Benson, the giant carp whose death in Britain this month…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Harvard Professor: “A Black Guy Told Me It Was Okay”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Among The Believers

The Atlantic’s Megan McCardle approvingly cites this bit of equivalency from Clive Crook of the Financial Times:

The gap between the right of the Republican party, which is providing the angriest critics of the reforms, and the left of the Democratic party, which…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

New Werner Herzog Trailer

Alex Balk in The Awl

Aug 18, 2009

Obama And The Socialism Conundrum

August 17, 2009

August 19, 2009