29 March 2006

  • New York's currently: watching the wheels
  • White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card resigns, replaced by longtime Bush aide Joshua Bolten, a "policy geek" who also plays in a band called Deficit Attention Disorder.
  • [Bush] has also defined "the bolten" as a new unit of Washington measurement. It is the smallest staff change possible short of doing nothing at all.
  • Israeli election wins--Kadima coming in first, Labor second--mean support for continued West Bank withdrawal.
  • Today's ToB action! Zadie Smith versus Uzodinma Iweala! Judged by Karl Iagnemma!
  • Proposed German citizenship exam for foreigners is so difficult that many believe German university students might not pass it.
  • Moussaoui offered to testify against himself in exchange for better prison conditions.
  • All of a sudden, my girlfriend got really interested in college basketball. My mom started calling for updates. I got a stomachache.
  • Total eclipse of the sun prompts tourists to flock to Africa, the rest of us to hum that song.
  • Nanny hit by truck on Upper East Side while trying to save choking baby.
  • European video game executive has trouble holding on to his exotic car collection.
  • Reagan Sec. of Defense Caspar Weinberger dies, age 88.
  • Putin is a plagiarist, as is a 10-year-old Dutch girl.
  • Grits are only as good as you make them, and here's how to make them really well.
  • When the EPA wanted the Defense Department to curb use of a toxic chemical that was seeping into the nation's water supplies, it prompted a legal battle, but no action.
  • Henry Rollins and Mark Twain are not so different.
  • "Remember, these people are on hold. The fewer words the better." Coaching the actors who voice prerecorded telephone announcements.