25 March 2004

  • New York's currently: publicly against eugenics
  • Clarke says: 'Either [Bush & Co.] didn't believe me that there was an urgent problem or was unprepared to act as though there were an urgent problem.'
  • Oregon county bans all marriages until state decides who can and cannot wed.
  • Indonesian AIDS education watered down to satisfy Islamic fundamentalists.
  • Today's analogy: Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to the war on terrorism what the Spanish Civil War was to World War II.
  • Director of the National Security Archive says White House over-fluffs the Presidential Daily Brief, providing low-key examples from the Johnson era.
  • Case to strike 'under God' from Pledge of Allegiance could end in 4-4 tie.
  • Pentagon to reshuffle troops around Europe and Asia to match reshuffled threats and priorities.
  • Houdini museum enrages magicians by pledging to reveal master's big trick.
  • After bomb was found yesterday on train track, mysterious French terrorist group AZF says there are no more working bombs on the rail network.
  • Insider's look at the Dean campaign, from the candidate's pollster.
  • You should prosper even as in the past, when your lands were fertile, when your ancestors gave to the world literature, science, and art, and when Baghdad city was one of the wonders of the world. British speech shortly after occupying Baghdad, 1917.
  • Tourists gleefully fire the Trump Tower.
  • TMN's Maggie Berry now sells t-shirts explaining correct etiquette for the bedroom.
  • Precise and proper rage at Apple Computer's pretentious posturing and pod-shucking.
  • 'At the end of the day' voted most irritating phrase in English language.
  • Michael Barrish reading this weekend with Andy Horwitz, T.C. Gardstein.