11 April 2007: Morning

  • Militants and residents fight Iraqi Army and Americans in longest sustained battle since Baghdad's new security plan.
  • Red Cross: Life is getting worse for all Iraqis; Oxford Research Group: The war in Iraq supports terrorism.
  • Four-star generals spurn Bush's offer to become "war czar."
  • Detailed living conditions in Amnesty International's report on conditions at Guantánamo.
  • Not so far off: U.S. counter-counterterrorism unit successfully destroys Washington Monument.
  • Details on the unprecedented India-U.S. nuclear pact you weren't aware existed.
  • Holocaust Museum and Google Earth map genocide in Darfur.
  • NBC hates YouTube much to Lorne Michaels's dismay, who wishes kids in Pakistan would put their dicks in boxes.
  • Video: Game show host David Letterman.
  • Collection of Imus's other racist comments.
  • China's art market: capitalistic, invasive, leading the replica market, visiting Saatchi's Mandarin website four million times a day.
  • Norway goes on a crime (book) spree during Easter, despite having the same number of homicides as Omaha.
  • Oregon timber counties face budget holes, force police to compete with libraries for public dollars.
  • Given today's monthly costs, it may be home-owners who are throwing their money away.
  • Op: Even rocket scientists can't get their units squared, or, why metrics don't scratch my inch.
  • Examples of the "dumbest, funniest, most peculiar" pieces of advice found in self-help books.
  • Reviewer casing Didion's career in a single book finds courage, wisdom, California.