18 July 2006

  • New York's currently: panting, just to see if it works
  • As the Senate gets ready to approve federal funding of stem-cell research, Bush readies his veto button.
  • Op: The President's morality is holding back our scientific advancement; no, that would be the fault of scientific patents.
  • Federal "pregnancy resource centers" are misleading women, telling them abortions can cause breast cancer, infertility.
  • Outside Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, 59 die as car bomber loads up day laborers in a van laced with explosives.
  • France and Italy have evacuated 1,600 Europeans from Lebanon to Cyprus; Americans, on the other hand, may need to pay the U.S. government to get a ride out.
  • Records that indicate a freelance writer is dead turn out to be tough to correct.
  • France in a tizzy over its first black anchorman.
  • Poorly written legislation means livestock farmers get disaster compensation even without a disaster.
  • Wal-Mart set to begin MySpace-like social website, in-store healthcare.
  • TMN's Kevin Guilfoile gets made by the Outfit, which is the Chicago mob, and also a group of Chicago crime writers.
  • Illustrated interview with indie flick wunderkind Richard Linklater, or "what it's like to produce a metric ton of frames of Keanu Reeves."
  • Guy who does yoga finds a way to mention that he does yoga.
  • Mickey Spillane dies, age 88.
  • He did show a knack for connecting to the basest impulses of the crowd by deploying his most effective licks at key moments to elicit a powerful crowd reaction. Pat Metheny on Kenny G.
  • People avoid highbrow movies whenever possible.
  • Converse footwear as waistwear.
  • Stock-car kid too young to enter the go-kart arena at local amusement park.
  • A map depicting the growth of the U.S. obesity epidemic over the past 20 years.
  • The TV Single Dad must be seen in an active parental role, living with and providing support for the children without assistance from their biological mother or stepmother.
  • How to "prost" in 50 languages.
  • Don't rub in your sunscreen.