
With a murder every 40 hours, New Orleans crime rate is hard to beat. The latest
City Crime Rankings looked at reported incidents of six major crimes to determine the most dangerous dwellings in the US. With a population of only 250,000 that changed drastically after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans came out on top.

God bless 24-hours of news for giving us the "something happened, here's a boatload of people to tell you how to think about it" model of reporting. After all, where would we be without pundits? Thinking for ourselves?

With Halloween and the election spookily close together, costumes are ripe to be politicized. While Barack and McCain masks must be flying off the shelves, there's a big whole world of spooky, funny, sexy political costumes that will make you stand out at your Halloween Bash. We came up with our top 10 favorites, click through to find your perfect costume.

What do Budweiser, Church's Chicken, and Toll House cookies have in common? Not that they're the fixins of a perfect three-course meal (or that they're all brown, though that occurred to me judging from the pic) these goodies all made
The List Universe's list of "Top 10 American Icons That Are Not American." We took a peek at 10 decidedly
Made-in-the-USA products a while back — comparing the two lists, it seems like Firestone Tires (Japan) are the anti-Harley Davidson (USA.)
Also on the list of "you're not from around here, are you?"

If you're dying to get out of Dodge, you're in luck. The Lonely Planet
series of travel guides has just released its list of Top 10 World Cities. One entry is causing a few raised eyebrows — including mine.