14 September 2004

  • New York's currently: hoping its daily labor adds up to much
  • Baghdad car bomb kills 47, wounds more than 100.
  • Grabbing power where possible, Putin announces plans to "manage democracy" by ending popular elections of governors and independent lawmakers.
  • Two to three percent of children on antidepressants have suicidal thoughts or behavior says FDA.
  • Every lady I did not kill got paid what we both agreed on. Notes written for police by Gary Ridgway, Seattle's "Green River Killer."
  • Kerfluffle over Minneapolis handyman's gift to New York City of $1.4 million.
  • Who will you pray for this week? Fear not, the Presidential Prayer Team will tell you.
  • Accounts of Russian soldiers raping, torturing Chechens. See also, Russians trapped between a paranoid President and well-trained terrorists.
  • Preparing for Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, when FDR is beat by a Nazi-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh.
  • U.S. Airways' declaring bankruptcy is no surprise when the big carriers are dying.
  • Lives compared in Piscataway, N.J.; Kochi, Japan; and Zhuzhou, China.
  • Details of attacks, casualties in Iraq yesterday.
  • Photos: Tokyo Polaroid Plus.
  • Machiavelli never worked in a college English department, but he would have enjoyed it.
  • Controversial essay arguing Louis Armstrong liked women who knew how to worship the trumpet.
  • Tonight, New Yorkers: Opening of "Have You Eaten Yet? The Chinese Restaurant in America."
  • The notion that the sport might have had its origins in a form of siege warfare is appealing. Why, exactly, does everyone love pole-vaulting?
  • Website, about Romania, decays further with each visit.