20 October 2004

  • New York's currently: less than two weeks away from cheering for America
  • CARE International halts programs in Iraq after director is kidnapped.
  • New York leaders Pataki, Silver, and Bruno control borrowed billion-dollar slush fund available for pet projects, sticking taxpayers with the bill.
  • U.S. Army 30 percent shy of its soldier goal in the first month of the recruiting year.
  • 48 percent of New York City high-schoolers have had sex; 24 percent didn't use a condom last time.
  • CIA report investigating pre-9/11 accountability feared delayed in order to save presidential face, as evidence continually points to bad intel misleading troops.
  • Watch poll data accumulate and make predictions, updated every hour.
  • Air Force tells man to stop his TV from crying wolf or pay $10,000 a day for emitting false distress.
  • Sudan now mostly allows kids in Darfur to die of starvation, instead of heaving them onto bonfires. Columnist Nicholas Kristof reports from Darfur, wonders why we're doing so little to stop genocide.
  • White House had no plans for rebuilding post-war Iraq, says invasion retrospective.
  • Newspaper endorsements for Kerry and Bush tracked closely, though no mention of foreign countries like Iran endorsing the president.
  • Excerpt from Booker-winning The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.
  • Michael Stipe spends $3,018.86 wisely in New York City.
  • Pizza Party U.S.A, the idea both parties should agree on?
  • Pat Robertson says God told him Iraq would be messy (and apparently forgot to inform the president), but still wants Bush in office.
  • MTA to hike fares, reduce service, fire station agents, and kill any dreams of new projects.
  • New Errol Morris ads feature Bush 2000 voters prepared to vote for Kerry, while most expensive TV campaign ad plucks heartstrings for Bush (see video here).
  • Yes, have some: The Ghostbusters tour of New York, and even better, the Ghostbusters tour of the Spider-Man 2 videogame.