26 July 2005

  • New York's currently: making plans to buy furniture to make plans on
  • Two unions quit AFL-CIO, reducing membership by a quarter, as labor leaders make bids for power.
  • Barring further unforeseen circumstances, Space Shuttle Discovery is set to launch this morning.
  • Home-makeover reality show destroys handicapped kid's house.
  • There is, in fact, no Iraqi insurgency. There is a Sunni Arab insurgency. And it cannot win.
  • Why won't the Pentagon release the rest of the images from Abu Ghraib? Because they're more graphic than you'd thought.
  • Op: Too much coverage of Tom Cruise and not enough of Darfur means journalists aren't doing a good job. And: It's Katie Holmes's turn to go nuts.
  • Myanmar may be an anti-democracy, it may kill protesters, and it may be the world's second largest producer of heroin, but it wouldn't mind turning into a tourist spot.
  • Why people kiss.
  • Egyptian police say checkpoints may have kept two of Saturday's suicide bombers away from more densely populated areas.
  • Hillary Clinton is picked to show the Democratic Party how to win an election.
  • "What is Khrushchev's hairstyle called?" and other Soviet-era jokes.
  • Percy "Thrills" Thrillington, Paul McCartney, and a lovely little farce.
  • In a move to push the reopening of long-buried civil-rights investigations, Georgia group reenacts 1946 lynching.
  • Archeologists find thing, determine it to be a sexual aid, or perhaps a flint-splitter.
  • How to become telepathic.
  • We stand corrected--these are the absolute worst album covers.
  • Julie Powell says "whatever" to the marketing of food's wholesome freshness.
  • Hideous and appealing: Photo galleries of car interiors; "Six pages of casino carpeting and nothing but."
  • Video: His Girl Friday with Cary Grant.