28 June 2007: Morning

  • White House subpoenaed on wiretapping, and perhaps finally we'll see a showdown.
  • Op: A conservative's case for impeaching Dick Cheney.
  • Blair to work on economics, not peace in the Middle East--because Condoleeza's got that wrapped up.
  • Iranians revolt against new gas-rationing plan.
  • The population does not have anything to eat, does not have water to drink, no electricity at night. People do not eat democracy.
  • Concerning the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's young sons, what right do we have to "disappear" the children of terrorists?
  • Scientists urge parents to carefully choose books for their children, now that it's statistically proven that kids believe what they read.
  • See also: moon phase errors in picture books, 10 useless first aid myths.
  • Keillor on the future of our country, i.e., kids in the library doing work.
  • Future of speed-eating afflicted by arthritis.
  • Unafflicted but financially unsure? Hand your money to a neurological patient who can't feel emotions.
  • Stories of "blokeish behavior" and absent gentility in the London theater stalls.
  • Fed up with "gangs of marauding youth," citizens with gun permits begin patrolling New Haven.
  • Today's long read: Thirteen reporters later, what it's like to investigate Putin's government.
  • Nooses hanging in the white kids' tree: BBC report on racism in Jena, New Orleans.
  • Now online, the Julliard Manuscript Collection. Unrelated: Henry Raddick's spoof reviews on Amazon.
  • Inspiring, stomach-turning photographs of contemporary steelworkers.