• The ISA-NE leadership hopes to make a decision by 1200 EDT concerning the status of the conference. While the DC area looks like it should be navigable by Thursday, we don’t have good information about Baltimore or about what the state of east-coast travel will be like. The Baltimore Sun is pretty useless. Any commentary from readers in Baltimore would be appreciated.
• If you haven’t been paying attention, the situation in New York an New Jersey is simply terrible.
• The US wind map that’s been going around Facebook is pretty neat. As of right now Sandy’s imprint is unmistakable.

And also:

• The Syrian civil war continues, with clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp.
• Max Fisher discusses Khartoum’s accusation that Israel bombed one of its military factories.
• Increasing clashes and repression in Bahrain as the government attempts to suppress ongoing protests.
• The Party of Regions retains majority in Ukrainian elections as vote monitors express skepticism of the process.
• New Dutch coalition government brings a new round of austerity measures along for the ride.
• A new Center for Global Development report on the “New Middle Classes in Developing Countries.”
• David Maier shares a “presumably minor gripe about experimental philosophy.”
• Michael Krepon reviews Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb.
• Sandy Levinson thinks that Romney’s call to privatize FEMA is this year’s October surprise. Given how many of the insane base-pleasing far-right positions Romney etched-a-sketched during the primaries–and how little he’s suffered from them–I say “meh.” A depressed Obama national-vote tally strikes me as the most likely electoral consequences of Sandy. But what do I know? Not much.
• Brad Delong rounds up theories of the ‘intellectual history’ of  “the 47%”