Erin falls off face of planet

In 72 days I will be a master of journalism. Until then you’ll have to satisfy your craving for sassy Irish wit here.

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Topsy-turvy

In the same week that temperature’s in New York reached 66 degrees, it snowed in Baghdad. Seeing girls in skirts and no leggings walking down the streets of Manhattan on Jan. 9 and Iraqis bundled up against a snowstorm two days later is really throwing off my sense of reality.

Um, is that you honey?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Love in the Time Cholera is my current subway companion. As I made my way from Greenpoint to Long Island City to Midtown Manhattan this morning I read the following passage:
The hotel was a colonial palace that had seen better days, and its great marble [...]

Gulianisms

By far my vote for best quote after a poor showing in the Iowa Caucus: “None of this worries me – Sept. 11, there were times I was worried,” Rudy Giuliani told the Daily News.

The news in brief

The writers strike.
Denver smokes.
Pakistan votes?
Bush threatens, again.
The Supreme Court decides.
Americans split.