26 October 2004

  • New York's currently: seven days away from trusting its nation's future to the integrity of lawyers
  • Geneva Conventions don't apply to some non-Iraqi prisoners captured in Iraq, says new White House legal opinion.
  • Print and memorize: Large summary of president's anti-proliferation record, with success in Libya but major failures in Iran and North Korea.
  • Swing states wait under rancorous clouds while parties accuse opponents of rigging the ballots.
  • Elvis leads list of highest-earning dead celebrities, with $40 million annually.
  • Amateur election-guessers with heads for math go deep into building online crystal balls.
  • Afghan president-to-be Karzai under pressure to build a party around him.
  • Pentagon investigates claims that Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions.
  • If Iraqi insurgents steal more tons of explosives than we pull down of Saddam Hussein statues, do they win? Don't forget to get your war on.
  • Results still rolling in from Saturday's parliamentary elections in Kosovo, which was boycotted by 99 percent of the province's Serbs.
  • Iraqis call American soldiers "the Jews."
  • Bleecker Street's Joe's Pizza, New York's best street-slice shop, closes.
  • Your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. Authors respond to Anne Rice's tantrum on Amazon. (See tantrum here.)
  • Movie posters reworked for more literal titles.
  • The Nation's 100 facts to back an opinion: four more years of the Bush Administration will be a tragic period.
  • Republican insider emails published, sent accidentally to www.georgewbush.org, not .com.
  • The Anomalist tracks hauntings, unexplained theories around the world.