Today in Salon: Just gimme a kidney!

Today in Salon: Friday March 27, 2009

Just gimme a kidney! My search to find an organ donor taught me just how generous my friends are -- and how flawed the current transplant system is By Frances Kissling

Open Salon A Condom Saved Me From Prison in East Germany Does Being Neat Make Your Kids Better Readers? Driving While Navigated Cattle feed hell

Broadsheet "Sexting" teens strike back! Oedipus mess Enough with Meghan McCain already! Does less money mean more abortions? Single and knocked up

Obama goes back to the grass roots The president ducks traps laid by the GOP and slams the door on marijuana legalization at his first online town hall. By Mike Madden

"Monsters vs. Aliens" Earthlings, beware! It's a battle for world domination as Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen and Rainn Wilson lend their voices to this animated sendup of '50s creature features. By Stephanie Zacharek

"The Education of Charlie Banks" Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst makes his directorial debut with this surprisingly quiet, introspective film about a sheltered Ivy League student visited by a bully from his past. By Stephanie Zacharek

Eat your saints, purge your demons Why do people worship religious relics, and why is the number of trainee exorcists rising? Two new books suggest that our desire to believe in magical forces remains irresistible. By Laura Miller

Ask the pilot Planes crash. The media descends. But why can't reporters get their facts straight? Plus: Kudos to an outstanding exception. By Patrick Smith

My friend broke my phone! She opened it like a flip phone. It's not a flip phone. It's a swivel phone! By Cary Tennis

How the World Works Ron Paul makes Tim Geithner furrow his brow Michele Bachmann defends the holy dollar Geithner: Fox in the henhouse or cop on the beat? Signs of economic life?

Video Dog Red State Update: Legalize drugs, save Mexico

WayLay The trouble with looking into your own future. By Carol Lay

GigaOM Network Observational Study Finds TV is Still Tops New Drawing Features in Google Docs, Plus Two Free Alternatives Thunder in the Cloud Over Openness Ugly Betty's Mode After Hours: A Missed Opportunity Mobile Tech Minutes: There is no Perfect Smartphone How Do You Respond to Requests? Variable iTunes Pricing to Take Effect On April 7 Get Your Mug Shot on a Kindle Waiting for Next-Gen Ethanol in 2009? Forget It Opera Mobile 9.7 Getting Turbo-charged EA Getting Sporty With 2009 iPhone Lineup Microsoft Shows Off Touch in Windows 7 Setting Up The Web Working Day Verizon Rents Out Its Fiber for LTE Backhaul Green:Net Videos: Saul Griffith, Mayor Newsom Q&A, Starks' AMEE Poll: Friends Don't Let Friends Buy AT&T's iPhone Terminal Tips: Using the Command Line With Style Inkd: A New Marketplace for Print Design InstallerApp Desktop Client is Like iTunes for Unofficial Apps

War Room Former McCain staffers angry over Palin prayer remark House Republicans offer their own budget, sort of Quote of the day Joe the anti-union campaigner Will growing pot grow our economy, too? An online chat with the president Texas prepares for evolution vote with national implications

Glenn Greenwald Comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina

The monster inside my son For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew. By Ann Bauer

With friends like these, who needs Republicans? After a successful press conference, the president works a tougher crowd –- congressional Democrats. By Mike Madden

Tom the Dancing Bug Super-Fun-Pak Comix: "Malia" & "Sasha," Marital Mirth, Selfish Gene and more! By Ruben Bolling

My Saab story How "the Most Intelligent Car Ever Built" lost its mojo, and how I fell out of love. Ben Rubin

Zac Efron and the twilight of the teen idol The "High School Musical" pinup wants to shed his cheesy image. Can he succeed? Plus: A look at the heartthrobs who made the leap to adult fame. By Sarah Hepola

Israel's pragmatic thug To the chagrin of Arabs, Americans and Europeans, Avigdor Lieberman wants to be Israel's next foreign minister. To allay their concerns, he is doing his best to shed his reputation as a virulent racist. By Christoph Schult

My date rapist is on Facebook as a "person I might know" I want him to confess and admit he was wrong. Should I contact him? By Cary Tennis

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