7 June 2005

  • New York's currently: hot, hot, hot, wet, hot, hot
  • Supreme Court says Feds can bogart your medicinal marijuana.
  • Emails exchanged by top Pentagon officials reveal startling admission of bailing out Boeing.
  • America eats more of its meals on the go, and the detergent industry is happy to remove the stains from spills.
  • The new orientation: asexual, and proud of it!
  • I guess I'm more into hearing about sex crimes than sex anyway. Amy Sedaris on sex.
  • Flourishing trade for legal immigrants to rent their social security numbers to illegals.
  • George Clinton wins masters of Funkadelic albums and prepares to claim millions.
  • It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best. If crises are simmering problems, not sudden explosions, why are corporations so often caught unawares?
  • It's been 70 years since the last French dictionary, and the immortals only meet on Thursdays.
  • New Yorkers beset by Stockholm Syndrome, convinced their apartments are big enough.
  • City scrambles to save Olympics plan after Jets stadium is (thankfully--eds.) defeated.
  • Weird NJ holds the garden state's best secrets, like White Man(n)a.
  • Robert Lowell was once the great American poet; now he's largely unread, untaught, and unaware that Elizabeth Bishop has trumped him.
  • Audio: Napoleon finds his way into the spelling tournament.
  • An elevator to space? It's not that crazy.
  • Brad Pitt to design restaurant and penthouse in part of new Gehry development.
  • I wish my shoes understood me. Interview with seven-year-old who had his monster drawing turned pro with the Monster Engine.