8 May 2006

  • New York's currently: through fields of cattle, through fields of cane
  • Amid intense G.O.P. criticism, White House nominates Gen. Michael Hayden for CIA director role.
  • Over the weekend in Baghdad, 43 bodies were found, each shot at close range; series of car bombs kills 14.
  • White House to Dept. of Agriculture: Find new ways to work strategy for victory in Iraq into all of your speeches.
  • Iran to U.N.: If you tell us we can't continue our nuclear program, we're not listening.
  • Iranian president sends letter to Bush, proposing "new solutions" to the current international discord.
  • Rove riles Republicans with rumblings about losing control of Congress, though the chances of that kind of shift are slim compared to 12 years ago.
  • National Guard duty in Iraq has been greatly downsized, less than half as many are deployed as a year ago.
  • Go-Betweens singer Grant McLennan, 48, died in his sleep on Saturday.
  • Judge rules in favor of Computer over Corps in Apple vs. Apple trademark case.
  • Video: Thug-loving Jesus.
  • Fred Flintstone never made a lot of money. His name was never in the tablets. He was not the finest cartoon character ever drawn. Flintstone, through the pages of history.
  • TMN's David Leite and Linda Avery, proprietors of Leite's Culinaria, win 2006 James Beard Award for Food Website.
  • Chinese village gets divorces to get free apartments; Spanish town can't get a date to save its life--but it will have to.
  • Consider this man armed and married.
  • Man whose heart has already been removed awaits transplant, and waits, and waits.
  • Boy's eating habits spark protests, accusations of racism.
  • "The sound of the tuba--I could relate to it. I remember one of my first solos: the Rocky theme. The secret lives of the National Symphony Orchestra.
  • Last American Titanic survivor, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, dies at 99.
  • Video: Tom Cruise tries to dance, cannot move feet.