15 September 2005

  • New York's currently: eight out of ten working toes
  • Targeting Shiites, a barrage of suicide bombings yesterday leave nearly 150 dead--additional attacks this morning kill 31.
  • Citing higher fuel costs, Delta and Northwest file for Chapter 11.
  • With four of the nation's top ten airlines now in bankruptcy, passengers can expect long lines, delays.
  • The SWAT team had come with the single goal of rescuing two white women. Five desperate days at the New Orleans Convention Center.
  • Ray Nagin says French Quarter may reopen on Monday--180,000 could return to the city in the next two weeks.
  • Analysis: After two days of Senate questioning, nobody can pin down John Roberts on anything; but one thing's for sure: He's no Scalia or Thomas.
  • Really, they can't get him to say anything.
  • Maybe you have writer's block, maybe you just hate writing: Get answers to your writerly concerns from John Warner!
  • Hurricane Ophelia continues to batter North Carolina's coastline, but should move into the Atlantic by tomorrow morning.
  • Weiner averts runoff, concedes NYC Dem mayoral nomination to Ferrer.
  • U.S. History quiz, Jan. 20, 2040: What three things led to Bush losing the nation's confidence? Katrina, Iraq, and the economy. Now grab me another energy wand, willya?
  • Bush seeks to regain the nation's confidence by spending more on recovery from Katrina than war in Iraq--some say the economy can't handle it.
  • Because some animals are more equal than others: Animal Reviews.
  • Michael Brown says more were at fault in the failed Katrina response; those he faults disagree.
  • Why worry... everyone's blaming "Brownie?" Senate rejects independent inquiry into Katrina bungling.
  • Guardian readers want their Doonesbury back, and bad.
  • Photos: Germany in 1929.
  • Hello Kitty meets Cthulu in... Hello Cthulu.
  • Could Chicago ban foie gras?
  • At least FEMA has raps for kids.