16 July 2004

  • Federal health officials drop view that obesity is not an illness, open doors for Medicare to cover weight-loss treatments.
  • Residents of northwest L.A. evacuated, fire grabs homes and more than 11,000 acres.
  • I'm not an Iraqi citizen. Things President Bush is not, from the horse's mouth.
  • North Korea has produced six nuclear weapons in the last 20 months, analysts believe, and is possibly making more despite talks of shutting down.
  • White New Yorkers more likely to live longer than blacks, have daughters who smoke, teenagers who booze.
  • Cape Town residents fight prostitutes with ogling.
  • New York Times apologizes for not protesting Bush's WMD claims, though no sorries for Calvin Klein fluffjob.
  • At least 75 children die in Indian school fire.
  • Dreams crushed when Virginia judge rules teenagers must be accompanied by a parent or grandparent if attending teenage nudist camp.
  • Photo: Van Halen takes care in taping his guitars.
  • Their music was brutal, degenerate, loud--amplified by maximum distortion and feedback, and terribly, terribly bad. Model of obituary prose for New York Dolls' Arthur Kane.
  • Gerald Ford and Hubert Humphrey on why we actually need a Vice President.
  • Friday game: Play with punctuation!
  • Nobody is going to live forever. We're all going to die. Interview with 15-year-old Palestinian who almost blew himself up.
  • Part II of The New Republic's excellent "The Case Against George W. Bush."
  • Video: Classic music videos rendered in text.
  • Airport officials sneakily convinced to admit to gas problems over the intercom.