By David Graham
Is there something in the water? Maybe air pressure fluctuations with the cooling fall weather? Whatever the reason, things are going crazy across the country—and across the universe, it seems. The punditocracy has been wringing its hands about what Joe Wilson's and Kanye West's breaches of decorum say about the decline of civility in 21st-century America. But it's not just anger—take the New York television anchor who blurted a four-letter word in an inscrutable new coinage. Astronomers have produced evidence of strange things happening in space, too. Here is NEWSWEEK's handy reference guide to the top outbursts in September 2009.
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