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August 07, 2012 | | TELEVISION Season 5’s ‘The Other Woman’ was a controversial, polarizing episode of Mad Men. Show creator Matthew Weiner and star Christina Hendricks offer an oral history of the heartbreaking, Emmy-nominated Joan episode, the first of a two-part conversation. 'WATERWORLD' A third of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is under water. The head of the government disaster relief agency referred to the crisis as “Waterworld,” as thousands remain trapped on roofs. Last week's storms and subsequent flooding have left 50 dead and forced 250,000 to evacuate. Manila streets were completely submerged, closing schools and offices. Rescue workers used rafts to access slum areas. Tuesday, nine were killed in a Quezon City slum after a landslide. Manila, which has an overpopulated 10 million residents, is located in low-lying land between a lake and the ocean. POLITICS The media tolerates no end of birther nonsense and other paranoid fantasies from the right, but let Harry Reid accuse Mitt Romney of not paying his taxes and all hell breaks loose. Michelle Goldberg explores this double standard. SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTING The gunman who killed six at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., on Sunday struggled with alcohol, according to investigators. Wade Michael Page was booted from the Army in 1998 for showing up intoxicated to military exercises. A year later he was cited for drunk driving in Colorado. Page worked as a truck driver from 2006 to 2010, when the company fired him after he was charged with driving while impaired in North Carolina. After losing his job, Page fell into financial trouble and wasn’t able to keep up with the mortgage payments on his house. He was foreclosed on in January. Tucson Gabrielle Giffords announced in a statement through her husband that she supports Jard Loughner's plea agreement. "Avoiding a trial will allow us—and we hope the whole Southern Arizona community—to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives," the statement said.Loughner is expected to plead guilty to the shooting in Arizona that killed six people and injured 13 others, including Giffords. Before he can plead, Judge Larry A. Burns has scheduled a hearing to determine if Loughner is mentally competent to understand his decision. A psychologist is expected to testify that Loughner is competent to enter a plea. Under the terms of the deal, Loughner would be spared the death penalty and spend the rest of his life in prison. | | 
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