24 March 2006

  • New York's currently: worshipping at the Temple
  • Iraq informed it can no longer rely on U.S. funding for rebuilding.
  • Representatives want to know why Bush needs so much money to build so many bases in Iraq.
  • Cheney's tour rider asks for 68 degrees, Fox News, and caffeine-free Diet Sprite (though if his wife's in town, make it Perrier).
  • Praising Condoleezza Rice with racial slurs doesn't help you keep your job.
  • South Africa's "culture of rape" under the spotlight while former deputy president goes on trial.
  • High Times not a gateway magazine to harder readings.
  • The U.S. does not "torture" people--but if it does, it's considering not accepting evidence obtained during "torture."
  • First pro-life monument to birth features nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug.
  • 1,280 people remain missing after Katrina, some by choice.
  • Red Cross investigating accusations of impropriety, even criminal behavior, among post-Katrina volunteers.
  • Op: Malign neglect is wrecking people from New Orleans.
  • Survey of Katrina evacuees finds most have burned through their savings and have no permanent place to live.
  • Work by Kara Walker finds new context post-Katrina.
  • How to build a food nerd's apocalypse kit; how to preserve a snowflake.
  • Girl missing for ten years was only two miles away.
  • Today in the ToB: Home Land vs. The Historian, judged by Jessica Francis Kane.
  • Remembering Auden and what he believed.
  • Filmmaker follows Herzog's advice to walk from Madrid to Kiev (see trailer).
  • Op: The French student protests are a question of dignity, not sense.
  • Request a workplace interruption.