Saturday, May 13, 2006
Ahmadinejad: Iran will talk to any country but Israel (11:52 PM) - Achmad Sukarsono and Jerry Norton report for Reuters on the latest palaver from Iran’s very unsound president:NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran was ready to talk with any country except Israel but not under…
Cross-Shaped Ruin to Stay at Ground Zero (11:44 PM) - The Associated Press reports that two steel beams which survived the opening attack in the War on Terror in the shape of the cross will remain. I imagine most did not know they were ever in jeopardy. Mercifully, the WTC…
A Letter from Joseph Haydn to Franz Roth (07:48 AM) - It is widely believed, and I choose to, that Mozart stopped both Beethoven and Haydn from writing operas. Stopped Haydn midway down a very mossy path and stopped Beethoven from making much of a start at all. Both men could,…
The New Policy: Say Nothing At All (05:50 AM) - Dartblog has twice reported on the situation at Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, where a professor put the twelve Mohammed cartoons on a bulletin board and was swiftly censored. Now, if a recent e-mail is accurate, that censorship…