20 April 2006

  • New York's currently: trying hard to find something to complain about
  • White House spokesman Scott McClellan resigns; Rove no longer in charge in policy, will instead focus on November elections.
  • Why the White House shake-up? Big win for Democrats in November will send Bush into a lame-duck presidency.
  • Nobody can figure out what intelligence director John Negroponte does; Negroponte defends his record, says, "integration."
  • Nepalese protest the rule of King Gyanedra, breach shoot-on-sight curfew; police fire on protesters, killing three.
  • "Vengeance is never justice." Families of Sept. 11 victims testify on behalf of Moussaoui.
  • FCC to begin largest payola inquiry since the 1960 congressional hearings.
  • Italy is pulling a Bush v. Gore.
  • Patently Silly has real patents--real weird patents; "Roo Poo and Other Wacky Products from Australia."
  • Certain words, including "meta" and "subversive," to be banned from the new Voice.
  • Video: One never knows when the homosexual is about.
  • Case of bubonic plague confirmed in Los Angeles--fleas are the likely culprit.
  • Emergency medical guides for your iPod.
  • I telephone the Church of Scientology's headquarters at Saint Hill, claiming that I am concerned by my test results... A reporter's view from inside the Church of Hubbard.
  • Graduate author can't pay the rent--or afford a sandwich.
  • Woman survives carjacking, kidnapping, and being buried alive in a landfill.
  • Queen lunches with 99 Brits born April 12, 1926.
  • Why TMN's Sarah Hepola shut down her blog. [Mp3 interview with her here.]
  • New issue of Blueeyes Magazine.
  • 12. Wallace Shawn, 46. Leif Garrett, 79. Tom from MySpace. The 100 unsexiest men in the world.