23 August 2004

  • New York's currently: one week from a whole bag of nuts
  • Senate Intelligence Committee urges dismantling the CIA, exceeding the 9/11 Committee's (or Bush or Kerry's) suggestions.
  • Hollywood stunt pilots to snag hunk of Sun falling to the Earth.
  • Hillary says: Give New York the fricking money it deserves to prevent terrorism, you self-important, grandstanding jerks. (Don't worry, Bloomberg's pissed too.)
  • Dole says Kerry didn't bleed enough in Vietnam, while Podesta reminds us Bush got his teeth cleaned in the Guard.
  • TMN's Choire Sicha says Pam Anderson is the Jean-Paul Sartre of the U.S. Weekly set, though she's only one of many deadly women writing.
  • British celebrities compose notes-to-self.
  • Despite legacy of accepting suffering, Japanese learn to want happy all the time, while Americans still resent knowing they're going to die.
  • Central Park Film Festival begins this week. Almost as important, J.Crew now hand-delivers preppy goods to the Hamptons.
  • Op: Whatever we're doing in Iraq, it's a mess, people are dying, and it's certainly not to be called war.
  • Details behind the snatching of Munch's "Scream." (See also, history of famous art thefts.)
  • Italian cuisine guru Marcella Hazan eats at Olive Garden, leaves very disappointed.
  • 3.3 million people dead from war in the Congo over the last decade: great multimedia reader's guide to a long story. (See also, recent history.)
  • Game: Scarecrows and nasty flappy things.
  • Trials begin for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib's Graner.
  • How did George W. Bush pronounce the name of Abu Ghraib prison? Quiz on the administration's 1300 days.