Headlines from November 13, 2006
- Wal-Mart brings back "Merry Christmas" while Best Buy stands firm behind "Happy Holidays."
- Diagnose your own tone-deafness.
- Everything you'd ever wanted to know about American women and guns but were afraid to ask.
- The illustrated history of folding chairs.
- Italian trains can't operate when thieves steal copper wiring for export to China.
- Mystery of crumbling Euro notes solved--the culprit was meth.
- One-sided counterfeit bill shows a real lack of dedication.
- Each and every day a comic strip abuses the use of the silent second-to-last panel.
- Next up: The Bollywood romantic musical extravaganza about the shy proofreader and the fun-loving graphic designer.
- So much for stereotypes: Hippies and their marijuana weave "path of environmental destruction" in Northern California.
- Blogging is so novel [in Saudi Arabia] that the equivalent term in Arabic, tadween, to chronicle, was coined only this year.
- Most cases of identity theft go unsolved; however, of those that are cracked, half the time the crime is perpetrated by a family member.
- As the speaker takes to the podium, several students silence their cellphones. One puts down his copy of The Wall Street Journal and takes out his Bible.
- The 1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators.
- Photos of a Brooklyn playground that gets spooky at night.
- Funny names for genes in the lab aren't so funny when they're attached to human abnormalities.
- A new vaccine uses the body's natural immune system to destroy kidney tumors.
- A new generation of Agent Orange victims is born, and the blame keeps changing hands.
- It was surprising to discover that he has white hair, though when you stop to think about it, it’s hard to pinpoint what Guest really looks like.
- Soap opera as fantasy sport.
- Steve McQueen's sunglasses sell at auction for $70,200.
- Twenty years on, Dark Horse Comics won't give up its edge.
- Democrats want troops removed (aka "redeployed") from Iraq within the next four to six months.
- Outgoing (aka "lame duck") Congress back in session today, with plans to pass ambitious bills before the January changeover.
- Reid, Pelosi vow to reform earmarking in Congress--even though they're fairly well-known for (aka "guilty of") it themselves.
- Meet the crisis negotiator who's called in when pirates plunder on the high seas.
- Florida absentee ballot mailed with $500,000 stamp.
- Procol Harum members will play a keyboard in court to prove who wrote the organ riff in "A Whiter Shade of Pale." (The video for the song, from 1967.)
- It's official: A burrito is not a sandwich.
- Why does this magazine smell like cheese?
- Brazilian woman proves multiple gunshots to the head not as fatal as once thought.
- I am Macaca; no, James Webb is.
- MySpace popular among teenagers, bands, and Texans on Death Row.
- Virginia cops drop 10-codes and a little bit of their soul dies.
- "Do-gooders run things. I'm telling you, this life was very good for freaks." It's not easy to run a freakshow in the age of political correctness.
- Audio: hear Bill Buford talk to turkeys other than Mario Batali.
- This season's chef cookbook that you'll actually want.
- Spitzer says no new MTA fare hikes, blinds us with his milky chest.
- Maybe Bush can't tell a joke either: How his drapes quip to Pelosi fell flat.
- Ford passes Reagan as the longest-living U.S. president.