19 October 2005

  • New York's currently: making more coffee than necessary
  • Conservatives pleased to hear candidate Miers once favored outlawing abortion.
  • Military makes more than $120 million off on-base slot machines.
  • Twenty-eight percent of Iraqi vets return home with health problems.
  • Final results for Iraq's new constitution won't be announced until Friday.
  • The alleged crimes of Saddam.
  • I was raped by a doctor. Which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl. Sarah Silverman doesn't care if you think she's a racist, as long as you think she's thin.
  • Watch for today's Gary Benchley give-away!
  • Red Cross overreported Katrina evacuees staying in hotels--by 400,000.
  • God makes waves as Dover school board trial hears first expert intelligent design witness, and Berkeley gets sued on all fronts for promoting evolution.
  • Geologists try to explain how a landslide started a forest fire.
  • No more umbrellas! Christopher Brodeur's exciting list of innovations if he's elected NYC's mayor.
  • Shake Shack now serves breakfast? Shake Shack now serves breakfast!
  • ATF agent goes deep undercover, busts Mongols gang, writes bestseller book; Mongols post-prison now consult on the film version.
  • Hurricane Wilma upgraded to Category 5.
  • United Airlines to begin boarding people Wilma-style--window seats first, then middle, then aisle.
  • Queen of Radio Wendy Williams secretly wants to please her parents.
  • Strunk & White's Elements of Style now illustrated by Maira Kalman, also available as a song cycle. See also, Candide with Chris Ware.
  • He liked to sip fizzy pop or tea. New evidence suggests Dylan Thomas was a light drinker.
  • Americans adore British fantasy for its mildly anaesthetic romance.
  • Chefs and bloggers may mock her, but Rachael Ray is pure pop fun. For non-fans, cooking for engineers.
  • Zagat reviews too rude to include.