8 May 2002

  • New York's currently: a lovely place to live.
  • Sharon to convene ministers in response to recent suicide bombing that killed 15; Arafat's expulsion to be considered.
  • Bush and Sharon agree on restructuring PLO, disagree on everything else.
  • Justice department, following Ashcroft's long-held belief, tells Supreme Court that second amendment allows individuals to bear arms, having nothing to do with militias.
  • Keep track of Ashcroft's close, cuddly relationship with the gun lobby.
  • Suicide bomber kills 15 on a bus in Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Bloomberg hosts power-talk salons at home, serving meatloaf while celebrities, politicians chit-chat.
  • Bush sends Clinton to East Timor for independence ceremony.
  • Spider-Man actually lives in Queens--20 Ingram Street--under the clever monikers Andrew and Suzanne Parker.
  • Author Danielle Steel possesses 26 parking permits in San Francisco, plus her own underground garage.
  • Fired columnist Ann Coulter begs White House press secretary Fleischer to have President read her book.
  • Frustrating telemarketers without being mean.
  • Man kills man--drives over body 'gangster style'--for puking in his Camaro.
  • New Cross Atlantic Report.
  • One-armed artist nails other arm to wall, takes painkillers, stays clean.
  • Book thief gets four years in prison for $1.5M in rare books.
  • Recent favorite hatemail:
  • On reasons not to live in New YorkOverly pretentious pseudo-intellectual writers like yourself is a major one. I'm sure you can figure out a whole bunch of other reasons--just walk down the street. By the way, i live and work in manhattan--i wanted to live here as long as i can remember (initially fell for the liberal media BS hype). now I just want OUT. I just don't see what you find so great about a place that is proud to be deemed the 'rudest city' in the whole world! and the racial hate (mostly black AGAINST white -yes it IS true) and crime...