18 September 2006

  • New York's currently: 90 degrees, with a head cold that won't wither
  • Pope Benedict says he's sorry that Muslims were offended and upset by his remarks, though it's not clear if he's sorry he said them.
  • Speaking of offensive remarks, Virginia's George Allen is deep in some serious macaca.
  • More than a hundred people diagnosed with bad spinach; FDA's spinach Q&A doesn't cite Woody Allen's Sleeper.
  • Manhattan meat eaters, have you tried downtown's best unknown burger?
  • Chubby bunny kills Ontario woman.
  • New York's 2006 "fire season" (winter) saw a 50 percent gain in "greater" blazes (two alarms or more).
  • Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army and the "World's Evilest Person" poll, arrives in Uganda to talk truce.
  • IAEA calls U.S. Congress report on Iran's nuclear plans "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated"; Bush plans to avoid Ahmadinejad in the U.N. hallways.
  • Interview with the U.N.'s conch player.
  • CNN now running Onion stories--will Chinese newspapers respond with more apologies?
  • Rumor mill says Bush is preparing a U-turn on global warming--is his motivation only political?
  • And when Bush hosts talks on Borat with Kazakhstan's president, is his motivation only appeasement?
  • Rock stars wear their TMN shirts on-stage.
  • TMN needs a fall intern, and you need to be hip to what Birnbaum's saying about this week's books.
  • Women's rights movement completed with first woman (tourist) in space! (See also, Madrid's fashion week bans too-skinny models.)
  • Italian maverick journalist Oriana Fallaci died Friday at 76.
  • Ann Richards, an alcoholic to remember, and a lot more than a few one-liners at a convention.
  • Audio appreciation of the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
  • Black lawn jockey ornaments not as demeaning as once thought, though offence lies in the eyes of the beholder.
  • 3,000 year-old-tablet, linked to Olmec civilization, contains oldest writing in the Western Hemisphere.
  • Producers say hairy toes and feet are a "distinct advantage." Open auditions held for West End version of Lord of the Rings.
  • TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin gets schooled on duck boots and Frank O'Hara.
  • The world's greatest driving road, as tamed by a Mini Cooper.
  • Tales of the rich and mighty--Mark Twain, George Foreman, Michael Jackson--going broke.