18 July 2002

  • New York's currently: apparently going to learn how to salsa tonight
  • Senate panel to vote on international women's rights treaty that Bush doesn't want approved.
  • Politicians, worried about White House's plan to attack Iraq, want to hear strategies before reading about them in the paper.
  • Chocolate pre-dates Christ.
  • The Post surprisingly attacks now-convicted-liar 'sadistic' Schwarz.
  • Londoners screwed as 90 percent of the Tube shuts down for strike.
  • South African government's reaction to dying boys in initiation schools requires balancing cultural practices with good health.
  • 'I just want a Frappuccino,' the 18-year-old law firm intern said. 'I'm even willing to pay for it, but I can't find it anywhere.' Starbucks coupons sent to you over email are false.
  • Lawsuit against Salomon Smith Barney says hot stocks were doled out to top executives at telecommunications companies.
  • Magazine News: 1) Toby Young tries to hire a Graydon Carter impersonator, fails, gets 'suck it up' story published in Carter's old organ. 2) New Atlantic issue really fucking good. (example why.) 3) New Yorker publishes few women. In response, editor Remnick says, 'We are publishing a lot of women, some of the best journalists and fiction writers around, but it's clearly not enough. It will change.'
  • A story for my dad, and yours (if he's obsessed with the civil war): Civil war battleship, the Monitor (launched in 1862 from Greenpoint, Brooklyn), slowly being recovered.
  • Super-easy Amazon search.
  • You want me to cuddle? Then don't eat my anterior tentacles for nourishment. The Top 10.25 Things Women (genders 1-2.5) Don't Know About Men (genders 3-5).