2 March 2004

  • New York's currently: practically spring
  • Rumblings over the fairness of Super Tuesday voting as Edwards fights for the life of his campaign and Kerry eyes a clean sweep. And: A crib sheet to find out where the candidates stand on the issues.
  • Where it went wrong: Why this could be the final day for Edwards. And: Kerry wasn't willing to take the risk of parting with his own medals. They might come in handy some day. The trouble with Kerry.
  • Calling all New Yorkers: Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote.
  • Coordinated attacks in Karbala and Baghdad kill scores, wound hundreds.
  • Anger in men causes war, pestilence, strokes. Related: Video games in children cause the same, plus fat.
  • Astronomy teams flip-flop in finding the furthest galaxies.
  • Yemeni judge 're-educates' Islamic militants, claims 90 percent success rate.
  • 'Stairway to Heaven,' backwards and forwards and upside-down.
  • The life and times of a Philadelphia punk rock band in the early '80s (with their unreleased album).
  • One [conservative activist] told Daniels that his coalition resembled the bar scene in Star Wars. (Daniels replied, 'When the right-wingers get together, that's the bar scene in Star Wars. Those are the alien forms.') Conservative Matt Daniels thinks his constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is better than yours.
  • Big Brother for the Middle East canned for its un-Muslim ways.
  • Girl believed dead in 1997 fire discovered alive.
  • New book delves into the hidden meanings of nursery rhymes. ['See Saw Marjorie Daw' PDF sample here]
  • MTV 120 Minutes playlists, 1986–2003.
  • Honoring the centennial of Theodor Suess Geisel.
  • Rare 1866 silver dollar --only one of two believed to exist without the 'In God We Trust' inscription --found in Best Western hotel bar in Maine.