29 March 2004

  • New York's currently: loving G.R.I.T.S.
  • Sunday blow up over Sept. 11-related testimonies, with Rice appearing everywhere but your local Starbucks, or publicly before the commission.
  • Organized Iraqi Shiites band behind Sistani to alter or drop the constitution.
  • U.S. soldiers shut down popular Baghdad newspaper accused of printing lies that incited violence.
  • Ecuador's campaign against lateness shows signs of economic gain-with-shame.
  • Chirac rebuked as Socialists make big gains in regional French elections.
  • Finally: Neckface interviewed.
  • Pentagon releases parts of bioterror study, concluding U.S. is frighteningly unprepared to respond to assault.
  • A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. Remembering the Mayor's wild ride on New York's first subway.
  • Americans, non-Brits: Isn't it time you knew about 'dogging?'
  • Arab League summit cancelled after Tunisia balked at 'only a tepid commitment to reform,' rationales and worries read in shifting sands.
  • The Netherlands, as any European can tell you, has become a land of giants. Why Europeans are getting taller, and we aren't.
  • Danny Gregory's drawing of people and beards on the F train.
  • Polish prime minister steps down, five weeks before the country joins the European Union.
  • If they will find radiation on you vehicle, they give a chemical shower and this eat ya bike. Woman's account of riding motorcycle through Chernobyl country.
  • '60s psychiatric ads apparently designed to freak you out: Valium, Tofranil, Elavil.
  • Do not question Bush's faith in Jesus, himself, or his policies--it's all he's got.
  • First issue of Superman readable online.