19 September 2006

  • New York's currently: no tengo dinero
  • When slipshod Canadian intelligence and nightmarish U.S. interrogators work together, one innocent computer engineer pays the price.
  • If John McCain wants to pick up Bush devotees' votes in 2008, he has to start singing a different tune about torture.
  • The man who will likely be Japan's new PM worries his nation's neighbors with new talk of patriotism.
  • Sexually harassed Army specialist can't bring herself to return to Iraq, faces charges of desertion.
  • Q: If the Pope is infallible, how can he make a mistake? A: Quoting doesn't count.
  • In 2003, government figures show 17,107 farmers in India committed suicide--debt and despair are the likely causes.
  • U.S. voting machine can be opened with a hotel minibar key, though votes are still cheaper than the peanuts.
  • After 30 years of work, J.R.R. Tolkien's son, now 81, completes his father's final novel.
  • Shocking but true: High school drop-outs not so into civic involvement, opera.
  • Early admissions at Ivy Leagues on the way out, now your kid will never be civically involved.
  • Fall Season Death Watch 2006 is the new fantasy football.
  • Costumed art student hides among terracotta warriors, Chinese more amused than annoyed.
  • Willie Nelson, band members cited for marijuana, mushroom possession.
  • TMN needs a fall intern--is it you?
  • Mets clinch first NL East title in 18 years.
  • "If we could turn Congress into one big A.A. meeting, where people would be required to say what they mean and mean what they say, it would be a lot better Congress."
  • The New Yorker, haiku'd.
  • Video: Nothing says "party" in a music video like Ron Jeremy mixing drinks and a grinning orangutan.
  • Scientists think your body may be filled with tiny cancers that don't go anywhere.
  • Newsbiscuit: Like The Onion, but British--"humour," you know.
  • Has Gary Benchley become a meme?