30 June 2005

  • New York's currently: the exception to the rule of "one size fits all"
  • Intelligence czar Negroponte gets more control over spies with consolidated National Security Service.
  • Black man clubbed by white attackers in Howard Beach.
  • Us Weekly launches scholarly Us Quarterly to explore celebrity issues in more depth.
  • Op: Conservative mullahs are losing their grip in Iran by grabbing for more power.
  • Of Persepolis fame, Marjane Satrapi visits West Point.
  • Spooks say Italians knew about snatching and torture--are they pissed because their case was stolen? [via]
  • Spain beats Canada as third country in the world to officially legalize gay marriage.
  • Video: Animated music video for La Phaze, done by Faile.
  • Foul language used to hate horses.
  • Secular Shiite politicians in Iraq want their own autonomous region in the south, with Chalabi in play.
  • Every viewer knows that the only people who show emotion in C.S.I. are about to be dead. J.G. Ballard on why he loves C.S.I.
  • Norman Mailer calls Michiko Kakutani a "kamikaze" and an "Asiatic feminist."
  • Federal judge says Cooper and Miller have one week to give up their sources or it's time for jail; Novak stonewalls.
  • Why do we forget our childhood? For lack of language?
  • Owner of the New England Patriots gave Putin his Super Bowl ring because the Russian admirer "was clearly taken with its uniqueness."
  • The year in national holidays.
  • In rush to hire airport screeners after Sept. 11, more than $300 million was questionably blown.
  • Old but still valid instructions for protecting your town from Satan.