News You Can Bruise for 2002 June 26

Wed Jun 26 2002 07:59: MoreSensationalistExaminer.com: Ara-spat should be Ara-splat.

Wed Jun 26 2002 08:02: In the manner of Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, I'm inaugurating Conflations That Bother Me (which could be called the more succinct Disturbing Conflations, except they're not disturbing, just bothering of me, which would make the title itself contain a disturbing conflation, so no. But irony! I said no.)

Today's conflation: "democratic" and "egalitarian"

Wed Jun 26 2002 21:16: Another moment of silence for my uncle Larry Richardson, who died this morning of a heart attack.

Wed Jun 26 2002 22:55: I'll probably be going to Bakersfield this weekend for the funeral.

I'm going to sleep now, but for those wizards among you who stay up late, a my-heart's-not-really-in-it Photo Wire Roundup:

• Ad for men's suits
• Colin Powell doing something funny in the background: 1 2 (#2 looks like a bizarre '90s photorealist painting)
• "Calm down! You'll all get your chance to be president!"(Is it just me, or does he look like Linus Torvalds?)
• Very cute and phylogeny-recapitulating baby elephant