28 September 2006
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: watching the neo-con democracy-domino effect hand Iran an empire
Last week saw the highest number of suicide bomb attacks in Iraq of any week since the invasion in 2003.
House approves White House-happy interrogation bill--a dangerous piece of legislation that terrifies Democrats, goose-marches Republicans, and keeps the White House smiling all the way to the dungeon.
Confucian family tree may now admit to including women.
Nuance in Persian is difficult to translate, but it can be most misleading--sometimes comically so. The story of Admadinejad's interpreter at the U.N.
Report: Iranian science teachers may be enriching students.
The idiocy of 9/11 conspiracies, American-style, and also in a nutty British flavor.
Because of our long history here we are tolerated. 25,000 Jews live in Iran, the largest number in the Middle East outside Israel.
Tokyo Rose died Tuesday at 90, probably the most infamous female disc jockey in American history.
Kazakhstan goes along with U.S. energy plans so its population won't be pushed into demanding democracy; Kazakhs don't care about Borat, but officials are easily outraged.
Like the god Zeus, I am kind to animals and people. Passages from documents seized from the homes of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, Columbine killers.
Excerpts from Art Spiegelman's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!"
Army recruiter caught forging parents' signatures to induct 17-year-old.
Political refugees opt for mid-sized American cities, leaving North Dakota and Iowa out in the cold despite the states' lobbying.
Pro tennis's racquet man works on 51st street. (Eight undersung sports songs.)
Video: Interviews with rock, paper, scissors champions.
Lack of internet access in rural areas will only get worse as big phone companies look to sell off their phone lines.
I've poached salmon in more than 100 dishwashers on three continents. There's never been a dull party.
You get your sister drunk on her 21st birthday, not her 3rd.
The oral history of Thrill Jockey records, also Touch and Go.
TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on the week in Mp3s in yesterday's Digest.
Currently seeking a distributor for Dustin Diamond's sex tape, Saved By the Smell.
McMahan is said to believe that his genes are exemplary and saw in Linda the best match for his own superiority. Billionaire marries own daughter.
