16 November 2005

  • New York's currently: going to the gym to avoid thinking about the government
  • Senate demands White House reports on Iraq every 90 days, designating 2006 as the year we back out.
  • Tips to succeed with many wives, from the founder of the Indonesian National Polygamy Society.
  • Iraq orders urgent investigation into secret torture center.
  • Zarqawi remains free because his intelligence network is much better than ours, U.S. officials say.
  • Document proves oil companies met with Cheney's energy task force in 2001 despite his denials.
  • Ventriloquists of the 21st century.
  • U.S. admits using white phosphorous, an "incendiary weapon" though not a "chemical" one, against enemy combatants in Iraq.
  • Photos of the world's most difficult runways to land on.
  • Alito backs away from 1985 comment that the Constitution doesn't protect a right to abortion, saying he was just going along with the times.
  • Philip Roth suspected of taking performance-enhancing drugs.
  • China pledges to vaccinate all its poultry--5.2 billion birds.
  • FEMA tells 150,000 Katrina evacuees to leave fed-subsidized hotels by first of December.
  • As Italy tries to extradite alleged spooks, Spain investigates use of Majorca for renditions.
  • Blog of a British lord; blog of a British cokehead.
  • Myanmar moves its capital to a secret mountain compound 200 miles north--as to why, no one knows exactly.
  • Interview with master food writer Michael Ruhlman.
  • Safety guidelines for thawing and roasting turkey.
  • Op: Brokeback Mountain is an old-fashioned love story that makes everybody cry.
  • Internet resources concerning the history of pain.