3 May 2004

  • New York's currently: dreary-looking, skunky-feeling
  • Seven U.S. soldiers reprimanded in connection with abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
  • Hersh's must-read lists tortures in Abu Ghraib (including photos), stares up the chain of command for culpability.
  • Sharon defiant after Likud rejects his plan to withdraw soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
  • Excerpts from the Army's report on abuses in U.S. military prisons, completed in February. Related: Abuse in jails as described by Iraqis, also, journal from Ivan 'Chip' Frederick.
  • Updates in Iraq: American hostage escapes, nine soldiers die.
  • America's intelligence community is a mess, though it's also structured as an ideal corporation.
  • Another way to look at it: The U.S. has probably gone too easy on most arrested Iraqis.
  • Studying future leaders by their ands, ifs, and buts.
  • Maxim publisher wants to restore old virtues to modern poetry.
  • Audio: Dr. Who's Tom Baker receives a strange telephone call...
  • Ruling Saudi crown prince blames 'Zionists' for recent terrorist attacks in the kingdom. [ via slate ]
  • Fan mail sent to ex-Blue's Clues host, now rocker.
  • Gingrich and Patrick Kennedy: Our medical talent, tech, and facilities are the best, but the system is swamping our care.
  • Detailed report on Walt Whitman's life, including his death on a gondola at Disneyland.
  • Searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
  • TMN's Choire and Paulie to speak tonight.
  • Greenland morality was beginning to disgust me. Details from the strangest travel book ever written, An African in Greenland.