New York’s currently: quickly remembering winter
Karzai’s VP running-mate bombed but not injured, marking third attack on Karzai’s supporters before this weekend’s elections. (Rival gains by appealing to anti-Soviet vets.)
Reporters agree Farnaz Fassihi’s email was correct about life in Iraq (see letter here).
The veep debate was: a contentious draw; remarkable for an internet goof; the sun on Edwards’s face; the meat in Cheney’s molars; insignificant.
Top 10 flip-flops committed by Bush, and top 10 committed by Kerry.
Rodney Dangerfield dies at 82.
101 essential pieces of concert music from the 20th century, to be explained.
Video: Theo Jansen’s skeletons walk on the wind.
Neighbors battle with presidential placards in Plymouth, Mich.
Reported mastermind behind Iran’s nuclear program announces new missiles can cover 2,000 kilometers.
Politics! Bush supporters asked to spin Cheney as debate’s winner hours before debate began.
Journal drawings from a visit to New York.
Spot repeated phrases in last night’s VP debate.
The Bush rhetoric is clever. It may deceive many voters. Many arguments for why bird watchers may be the dark horse voting block.
Facts spat during debate checked and corrected.
Video: Mechanical pong, not described in English.
Twenty years of shortwave recordings that may contain secret intelligence.
Friends: Feed our coffers to caffeinate our monkeys: your support keeps us going in the morning!
