9 November 2006

  • It's National Fig Month, according to the Dull Men's Club.
  • From car bombs in Baghdad to food pantries in Brooklyn.
  • Not everybody is giggling at Madonna.
  • He boasted in his memoirs that if he went down in espionage history, it should be for perfecting the use of sex in spying.
  • My neurohormones whipped from black misery to shining ebullience, saturating my brain in a boiling cauldron of epinephrine and endorphins. A cognitive neuroscientist on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
  • There's really only one path to a self-inflicted scorched colon--and the video is here.
  • Sam's Club practically giving Cessnas away at $3 million a plane.
  • Everything, even lock-picking, is more fun in comic book form.
  • TMN's Matthew Baldwin bags a neologism.
  • Video: Proof that Bono couldn't write ad copy.
  • How to wing Thanksgiving.
  • Knowing the British roots of U.S. celebrities makes Americans feel one level worse about themselves.
  • "Hey, You Got Something To Eat?" by A Goat.
  • Some humans interbred with neanderthals. Come on, like you wouldn't.
  • Associated Press calls Virginia Senate race for Democrat Webb--sorry, "Senator-elect" Webb.
  • "Soft-spoken," "tough-minded," and critical of the administration's failures in Iraq: Ladies and gentlemen, meet your new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
  • He seemed to greet defeat with an air of relief, as though the results had allowed him to abandon an all-is-well pretense that was increasingly at odds with his actual political circumstances.
  • Bush acknowledges there will be a lot of changes, but immediate withdrawal from Iraq won't be part of it.
  • Suicide bomber kills 41 army recruits at a training ground--in Pakistan.
  • Israelis attack Gaza neighborhood, killing 18 Palestinians, including eight children and six women.
  • "I'm very happy because he's the defense secretary who invaded us and made our lives miserable." What Iraqis think of Rumsfeld's departure.
  • Rumsfeld's greatest hits--and misses.
  • Why the Democrats won: because they talked about an unpopular war, because the religious bloc switched parties.
  • Conservative pundits' reactions to the election come with offers for group hugs.
  • In Digest, Andrew Womack wonders what he should listen to.
  • Testing out Domino's "Brooklyn-style pizza" in Brooklyn--both slices are foldable.
  • Man incarcerated for trying to kill his wife hopes prison will finally keep him from making support payments.
  • Women belong in the House and not making delicious roasts for Senators.
  • The election-night graphics that passed muster.
  • Camp behind Jesus Camp documentary shut down, which surely has nothing to do with disgraced minister Haggard's appearance in the film.
  • Almost every candidate endorsed by Bloomberg won on Tuesday.
  • Turkey's headscarf soul-searching.
  • A plea to channel your Wikipedia vandalism energy toward chickens.