11 November 2005

  • New York's currently: wondering WHEN IN HELL is a senator going to leak the rest of the Abu Ghraib photos?
  • Suicide bomber kills 29 in Baghdad cafe popular with cops.
  • Senate votes to strip Guantánamo detainees of right to challenge detentions--if passed, nullifying the 2004 Supreme Court opinion.
  • Casting instructions for KFC voiceover commercials.
  • Dissension in the ranks forces GOP House leaders to yank back their budget-cutting bill.
  • Death of Rosa Parks means we can finally put civil rights behind us.
  • Extraordinary renditions, virtual spooks--Notes on the close ties between the CIA and Jordan's GID (General Intelligence Directorate).
  • 1947 comic book on cow teat comfort. See also the CIA's 1984 "Grenada: Rescued From Rape And Slavery."
  • Daryl Hannah introduces "Liebrary," the board game about books.
  • Riots betray lack of multiculturalism in France, a concept it doesn't know how to manage.
  • Naked men and their cars.
  • Op: It's not polite to say Christians are discriminated against in Egypt, but...
  • Explaining Bloomberg's dream to charge drivers entering the most heavily trafficked parts of Manhattan at the busiest times of the day.
  • Daniel Boulud and other gourmets introduce non-trashy box-o-wine.
  • New York parents dress their children in Sex Pistols t-shirts to compensate for their own lack of coolness.
  • Baby Review--The Infant Assessment Journal.
  • Archaeologists of the future will have a tough time figuring out the Infinity Project.
  • Nine most wanted time capsules.
  • I've done some pretty stupid things myself under the influence. Monica Lewinsky to write her LSE thesis on drinking too much.