13 December 2002

New York's currently: sick to hell of good ol' boys

Cardinal Law resigns as Boston's Archbishop.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. Lott's comments are supported by his voting and speech-record. Related: Mississippi ain't proud of its boy, especially since he was an ardent segregationist in college and has appealed many times to white supremacists, e.g. The Council of Conservative Citizens, once saying they held 'the right principles and the right philosophy.' Even Peggy Noonan is calling for his resignation.

Rightwingnuts.org, tracking Republican extremism.

Video and documents from Thurmond's rabidly-racist Dixiecrats party.

The century in shoes.

As E.B. White wrote, lived, and left, Turtle Bay on the East Side is a marvelous place to live.

Satellite photos show two nuclear facilities in Iran.

Google's year-end zeitgeist.

Support the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Brooklyn's best hair shop, the Beehive, on Monday at Galapagos.

Duke of Windsor's liquor cabinet sold.

Bloomberg tells transit works, if they walk, to pay up; Transit boss tells Bloomberg, if he talks, to shut up. Mike, however, will be riding his shiny new bike come Sunday.

It makes the statue seem to exist in time; in the imperfect tense. I mean the effect is temporal because, while Moses looks at the terrible thing to his left, hair flows through the fingers of his right hand. In effect, he was just sitting there when suddenly... Leonard Michaels on Michelangelo.

New bar in Cobble Hill: Magnetic Field.