20 September 2006

  • New York's currently: briefing its boxers
  • Military (though bloodless) coup in Thailand; general vows to appoint a new (less corrupt?) prime minister within two weeks.
  • Thais realized something very unusual was happening when Channel 5, controlled by the Army, removed its usual program.
  • Are we winning in Iraq? "Given unlimited time and unlimited support, we're winning the war."
  • Baghdad as seen from street level: When you find a bloody man lying on the ground, alive, leave him alone.
  • What journalism in Iraq needs is more restaurant reviews.
  • Racist Senator a little too ecstatic he has Jewish roots.
  • Crisis in American airports' ability to screen checked luggage for bombs.
  • Latest weapons in fight against terror are canaries in a cage--er, fish in a tank.
  • TMN needs a suggestible young person to bring over to the dark side.
  • Book about sleeping couples reveals many defy death because they share a bed with a lifeguard.
  • New Jersey doctor tries wooing stripper with a cadaver's hand--but that doesn't explain where the six skulls come from.
  • Slopers, John Mayer won't teach you guitar but you still can enlist Dan Smith.
  • Didion on Cheney: The personality that springs to mind is that of the ninth-grade bully in the junior high lunchroom, the one sprawled in the letter jacket so the seventh-graders must step over his feet.
  • Sweatshop activists suspect Stephon Marbury's $14.98 sneakers are made for pennies in China.
  • Adjust the sea level in order to flood the world.
  • After a summer of greenmarkets, returning to the grocery store is a sad adventure in artificial flavorings (except in some select cases).
  • Parks make living safer in Paris, and obviously more enjoyable.
  • Tutorial in how to enlist Yankee fans to find your friend when he's lost in the stadium.
  • See also, a guide to modern homesteading, and how Frank Bruni doesn't get fat.
  • Move Martin Luther King Day so that it is the day after the Super Bowl. Entries to "Since Sliced Bread," contest for policy ideas to help working families.
  • This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs on YouTube.
  • The Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art.