19 July 2006
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: storing cold air behind closed doors
Israel's strategy: a continued military campaign in Lebanon--toppling Hezbollah is the objective.
Bush supports Israel's campaign to stop Hezbollah, says Iran must be isolated.
Isn't this a lot of bloodshed over two soldiers? "Proportionality is not compared to the event, but to the threat, and the threat is bigger and wider than the captured soldiers."
But it isn't the beginning of World War III--because the world doesn't operate in quite the same way anymore.
The humanitarian crisis in Lebanon is escalating, with a half million people driven from their homes--food, water, and medicine are in short supply.
A New Orleans doctor and two nurses have been arrested for giving lethal injections to four elderly patients in the midst of Katrina's aftermath.
In Indonesia, where the tsunami death toll has reached 531, rumors of another tsunami causes mass panic, stampede inland.
Study shows the effect the Atlantic Yards project will have on Brooklyn--more traffic, more shadows, more sewage.
Andrew Womack on sort-of cover versions.
I transferred it to an iPod and discovered that Mozart requires 9.77 gigabytes. Alex Ross listens to Mozart--all of it.
Airport cell phone lots replace obsessively circling for hours, probably for the better.
A racist ringtone is offending South Africans.
If you can't prove the existence of telepathy with regular playing cards, try it with advanced virtual reality gaming.
There's some other stuff too, like this new technology that reads your mind or something and synchs with your iPod and your shoes somehow to track your workout, but I don't know about that.
Just like in The Poseidon Adventure: Cruise ship bound for New York lists, seemed about to flip over.
Just like in The Omen: Wal-Mart hires ex-nun.
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Barbershop, Scent of a Woman among the first cinema gems you'll be able to download from Hollywood.
Video: F-bombing with The Big Lebowski.
