2 October 2006
By The Morning News
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GOPers hop around shifting blame while the FBI gets busy investigating Mark Foley--that cool congressman the kids could chill with.
Palestinian government closes shop while Hamas and Fatah battle with respective security forces.
Retired army chief sworn in as interim Thai prime minister, gives coup leaders amnesty for overthrowing the government.
With year two for John Roberts packed with big decisions, could this become the Kennedy court?
Intergalactic TV program Cosmic Connexion assumes aliens have working knowledge of German and French.
Computer programmer proves Neil Armstrong had it grammatically correct and did actually pronounce that missing "a."
A few notes on the TMN redesign, and today's Book Digest, by the one and only Birnbaum.
Video: Steve Jobs predicts the violence of a nuclear future.
Damien Hirst needed to replace the shark in the box; Damien Hirst, being Damien Hirst, allowed a reporter to witness the process.
Considering the nightmare we'll soon meet with voting machines, perhaps we should learn from the Gambians and vote with our marbles? (See also, elections in Hungary, Brazil, Bahrain.)
Fifteen-thousand gang members patrol New York, up from 12,000 last year; Kelly insists this is peanuts compared to other big cities.
Blacks' median income surpasses whites' in Queens.
All comedy guru Del Close wanted after death was to play Yorick, but the Chicago Tribune reveals that the "Close" skull on stage is a fake.
Red Mass in no way as scary as Black Mass, except maybe that it involves Justice Scalia.
Urban legends and secret tales of the comic-book world revealed.
I am incredibly, incredibly thin, and it's time we noticed what is going on. Ian Frazier confronts his anorexia.
Love made to eggplants in 16 recipes.
Sources--catalogs, small stores, 1-800 numbers--of chefs' secret ingredients.
Brian Eno and David Byrne would like you to freely remix and mash My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
Trojans remain America's favorite condoms because they're reliable.
By definition, Newfoundland can't experience tropical storm conditions. However...
Music for celebrating the 40th anniversary of the LSD ban this month. See also: the glorious history of Eurovision.
Customer robbed at knifepoint sues Washington Mutual, claiming its open floor-plan design encourages theft.
Forget McMansions: the new national design trend is the "Katrina cottage."
Inmate serving life sentence for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old girl was forcibly tattooed across the forehead.
Graph to help you select between friends, spouse candidates, and f-buddies.
Rich: What the Democratic party transparently lacks is not ideas or pundits offering advice, but leaders.
Making babies may be a profound natural phenomenon, but today it's largely a matter of surgery, technology, and anesthesia.
On the unnatural and potentially harmful tendency for TV networks to record children's public contests with cameras.
Op: The World Trade Center buildings, like the towers they replace, are money-making machines--and if you say this often enough, no one will question you.
A short primer on the science behind moonlight and harvest moons.
Upcoming in New York: Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, the Lautreamont Concerts.
Riot of new copyright restrictions threatens creativity, research, history.
Something sinister lurks in modern rock records--by making albums "super loud," dynamics are eliminated and you're practically sitting in the first row at the movies.
Twenty of the best U.K. record shops.
