30 January 2006

  • New York's currently: tracky bottoms tucked in socks
  • New laws may allow pharmacists and other health workers to deny care that contradicts their personal beliefs.
  • Threatened with withdrawal of western aid, Hamas says such a move would hurt Palestinian people, promises transparency in spending.
  • Sixty-seven die in roof collapse at convention center in Poland.
  • In Houston, finding non-biased jurors for the Enron trial is no easy task--"I've tried ax murderers and I've never found the public as upset as this."
  • Bob Woodruff and his ABC News cameraman are in stable condition following roadside attack outside of Baghdad.
  • Books announced for the 2006 Morning News Tournament of Books!
  • The new Arctic Monkeys album becomes the fastest selling debut album in British chart history, even if it is a bit overdone.
  • Of course, you could make the argument that someone should poison Anne Coulter's creme brulee--but beware, it would only make her stronger.
  • Greenspan cleans out his desk, Bush throws best going-away party ever.
  • If fact checkers don't kill non-fiction, then perhaps this $50 million lawsuit will.
  • The Prize: To the investigator who uncovers the best lies in the most memoirs, lunch at Michael's with an actual book agent.
  • West Virginia schools to introduce Dance Dance Revolution into P.E. classes.
  • Italian PM swears off sex until after the April 9 general election.
  • The Topps trading card company has had a very difficult business relationship with Sept. 11.
  • Take this test to find out how biased you are. (How it works, and more about the creators here.)
  • First case of bird flu in Iraq confirmed.
  • Now this sounds like the place to get a casket in Brooklyn. And: Meet the gravediggers at Green-Wood Cemetery.
  • The Impeach Bush van.
  • The "Baloney Phone" and other office pranks, illustrated.
  • Over 500 reasons not to pass out in Germany.