New York's currently: biased to the hilt
After Powell leaks the story, Bush signals intention to support Palestinian state.
Attempt to repeal estate tax pitted lobbyists against each other: Big Business, fighting to help the wealthy, set against the wealthy, fighting to give away their money.
Karl Rove is actually a robot: Rove calls for war against estate tax; Democrats get their hands on White House Powerpoint deck that took 21 hours to make.
Remarkably, we're still able to be angered by incompetence in the White House: EPA kills Clean Air program; New York attorney general to sue over coal pollution.
Two sites for watchdogs: Washington Watch, keeping an eye on the White House's corrupt environmental policy, and Open Secrets, tracking money in our wildly corrupt political system.
Photos of New York vans in disrepair.
'You Are Gunnar Myrdal, you are Nick Charles; you are 47+, you have herpes': Classifieds from The New York Review of Books.
Todd Bridges ('Willis' from Diff'rent Strokes) lands role on The Young and the Restless.
Hong Kong man pleads guilty to charges he faked his death in the September
11 attacks.
Interview with the great Donald Antrim.
And now, this excerpt from Strunk and White's The Elements of Style:Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning 'combustible' is
inflammable. But some people are thrown off by the
in- and think
inflammable means 'not combustible.' For this reason, trucks carrying gasoline or explosives are now marked FLAMMABLE. Unless you are operating such a truck and hence are concerned with the safety of children and illiterates, use
inflammable.
