Headlines from November 22, 2006
- Last-minute Thanksgiving reservations, last-minute turkey wines.
- Fast wines are the vinous correlative of everything else that is going to hell in our culture. You've heard of "slow food," well, welcome to "slow wine."
- Shortage of compassionate sommeliers strikes restaurant world. Outrages abound!
- Since he sold Chowhound.com, Jim "Alpha Dog" leff has taken to lone eating around the country.
- Republicans abandon their preferred spots around the House, relenquishing better digs to Dems.
- Videos: Roddick faked out, Ben Folds faked.
- A little late, but: Two weeks before Thanksgiving, the guide.
- See also, good Thanksgiving songs, and how to say grace.
- To cure and preserve meats without refrigeration is time-tested and wise, and illegal in the U.S.
- The six months I spent raising Harold were some of the best of my life--and so were the hours I spent eating him.
- TMN wishes you a happy Thanksgiving; we'll see you on Monday.
- Bush may so love social-security reform, he's willing to bargain for it.
- London police wooed by Scientologists.
- Saudi Arabia threatens to cut diplomatic strings with Britain unless slush-fund investigation stops. Have Swiss banks given up the info?
- After CNN anchor Nancy Grace harshly cross-examines mother of missing child, suicide and lawsuits follow.
- Police shootout probably the most interesting way to die at age 92.
- In other Georgia news, new sex offender laws prevent the convicted from living practically anywhere.
- Killer swears girl was in two pieces when he left her.
- The Obsessive Study of Athletics Aesthetics.
- Best Buy employees train for manic Black Friday shoppers.
- Success of evangelists inspires scientists to frame an overseer-less world as the greatest story ever told.
- Lists of fictional things.
- See also, five challenges that could derail McCain.
- It's never a threat to civil liberties when law enforcement can fingerprint you on the spot.
- Videos of unique NASA aircraft.
- "At Broad Nightlight," nighttime photos of Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong.