New York’s currently: got that rotten smell of garbage all over

 Sadr possibly injured in Najaf, military operations ceased as Iraqi politicians arrive for negotiations.

 California high court voids 4,000 same-sex marriages.

 Jersey Governor McGreevey declares homosexuality, resigns over affair, or was it corruption?

 U.N. allowed Saddam to siphon at least $10 billion from oil-for-food program.

 I believe in baubles, the bigger the better! Romance novelists give sex advice.

 Horror stories of cannibalism from ill-fated voyage to Puerto Rico.

 Collection of album covers featuring insects.

 Under the sofa are stuffed several assault rifles and a pair of umbrellas. Report from inside the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf.

 The remarkable story behind Afghanistan’s upcoming sham of a presidential election.

 Video: Krugman, O’Reilly, and Russert, with O’Reilly’s facts corrected.

 Is egg freezing—storing a young woman’s eggs for up to 10 years down the road—the golden egg for professional women wanting to be mothers someday?

 In Christianity you might say that God is a secular humanist. Interview with radical theologian Don Cupitt.

 Pentagon learning to obey the sixth amendment, especially when detained enemy combatants may be set free for lack of evidence.

 Female Olympians swap nude photos for cash and no one cares.

 40,000 traveling through J.F.K airport end up at the airport’s hospital.

 Mp3: Chipmunks slowed way down.

 And a huge helping of thanks to those two pilgrims who gave to TMN yesterday.