Today in Salon: This may hurt a bit

Today in Salon: Friday July 31, 2009

This may hurt a bit Can an overdose of TV ads while Congress leaves town help save Obama's healthcare plan? By Mike Madden

Open Salon Racist Anti-Obama Sentiment Inevitable Adrian Grenier, Tequila Shots & Assholes Weekly 10: Top 10 Countries For Life Expectancy At Birth Porn for Women: Sex with Context (15 examples)

Will Bill and Betsy kill again? Kristol and McCaughey helped derail Clinton's healthcare reforms with misinformation -- and now they're at it again By Joe Conason

Is the Judd Apatow moment over? He defined the recent comic landscape. But as the hero of "Funny People" understands, no streak lasts forever By Stephanie Zacharek

Pynchon lights up The famed author is back with a tale of drugs, hippies and paranoia -- and you don't need a decoder ring to read it By Laura Miller

Beyond the Multiplex It's the priest-vampire-ghost love story of summer! Bond and Cousteau track the dolphin killers

Information: The good, the bad and the ugly Airworthy planes, "dangerous" airports, and baby talk from the cockpit By Patrick Smith

The sick fight over healthcare A too-cautious Obama has let the right define the debate -- and now meaningful reform hangs in the balance By Gary Kamiya

Broadsheet Pheromone trend smells fishy People who love (multiple) people HBO does feminist porn Sperm donation for Us Weekly fans SheWrites.com: A salon of one's own A heartbreaking statistic Are you a Peggy or a Joan?

Critics' Picks: "True Blood's" queen of chaos Michelle Forbes was born to play this vampire drama's menacing Marianne By Laura Miller

Video Dog Red State Update: Time to join the crazies!

Laid off again: Should I move with my 12-year-old? I have a job offer in the Bible Belt, but my roots are in the Northeast By Cary Tennis

Story Minute The big white lies that won't go away By Carol Lay

War Room Crowley, Obama speak after "beer summit" Judge grants habeas writ for Guantanamo detainee Poll: Americans think Palin should be a homemaker Catching up with Roy Blunt on Birtherism Obama's poll numbers falling, hard Senate Dems ready to rebel against Baucus? Shatner reads Palin's Twitter The White House and beer diplomacy

Joan Walsh "Beer summit" won't stop racists like Limbaugh Is GOP using race to block Obama agenda? Ya think?

How the World Works Notes from a California meltdown, Mt. Tam edition A great leap forward for Chinese appliances Twittering against terrorism Optimism comes cheap, during the great recession

GigaOM Network GButts: Fast, Easy Access to Google Services Through a Firefox Button Rumor: Verizon's First Android Phone Spied How to Get a Job? For Some It Means Starting Their Own Company EQAL Now Wants to Compete with Ning Air HD Offers Affordable Wireless HD Southern Comfort Dumps Cable For Hulu, Facebook Weave Syncs Firefox Bookmarks to Windows Mobile Handsets Nanotech: The Key to Storing Carbon? Freeverse Joins ngmoco's Plus+ Social Gaming Network Will Celebs Ruin Web Video for the Rest of Us? Apple Adds 2TB Time Capsule, Now Available Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview: Hands-on Review

Glenn Greenwald Practicalities v. principles: the prime Beltway affliction

What if you set "Grey's Anatomy" in outer space? ABC's drama "Defying Gravity" sends McDreamy astronauts on a collision course with a meteor made of stinky cheese By Heather Havrilesky

The Huffington Post is crazy about your health Why bogus treatments and crackpot medical theories dominate "The Internet Newspaper" By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.

Critics' Picks: Roman Polanski's homicidal madness A young Catherine Deneuve stars in "Repulsion," a shocking early film from the notorious director, out on a new DVD By Andrew O'Hehir

Black men, white cops and media mind readers There's one person to blame for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest: Henry Louis Gates Jr. By Gene Lyons

Tom the Dancing Bug An asteroid is headed toward Earth. This will require bold, decisive ... bipartisan action? By Ruben Bolling

My boyfriend is bad with money He gets the utilities cut off. He doesn't file his taxes. And he's living with me! By Cary Tennis

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