New York’s currently: wondering if we skipped fall

 New CIA report definitively states Saddam Hussein has not had weapons of mass destruction since Iraq’s programs were “essentially destroyed” during the first Gulf War, in 1991. (Report available here.)

 The report also shows that, even though Hussein gave oil vouchers to weapons inspectors hoping they might put in a good word for lifting sanctions, there really were no weapons, as his own generals were surprised to learn.

 White House goes into overspin, claiming the new report “provides extensive new documentation that Saddam Hussein was a threat to international peace and security, and was in violation of U.N. resolutions.”

 Zinger no more: Dick Cheney met John Edwards long before Tuesday night’s debate. (More photos here and here).

 No eruption imminent at Mount St. Helens (insert “hot air” joke here), though you can watch, just to make sure.

 Shortage of flu vaccines this year has officials asking healthy adults to let the young and the old have theirs first.

 Terminal Five exhibit at JFK Airport is shut down after art lovers leave vomit, cigarette butts, and graffiti at the opening night.

 World’s largest flower, which smells like “overripe Camembert cheese on a bed of roadkill” blooms in Sydney.

 Video: Masters of the Universe meets The Big Lebowski.

 For over 30 years, the U.S. has wanted energy independence, but is it even possible?

 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay gets popped again by ethics committee, this time for misusing FAA resources and shady fundraising.

 Those burritos that taste so healthy…they’re not so good for you.

 The new plan for New York’s trash? Put it on a barge and ship it “elsewhere.” The new plan for New York’ subways and buses? Shut some down, make them all more expensive.

 Feasters at the enthronement party for England’s Archbishop of Neville in 1465 consumed 1,000 sheep; 2,000 pigs; 2,000 geese; 4,000 rabbits; and 12 porpoises and seals. How to make medieval-themed restaurants more authentic.

 Oklahoma tourism brochure pulled for images of manure tossing, Confederate flags.

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