Table scraps:

♣THE CAMERAMAN THAT filmed the now-infamous marine shooting an unarmed and injured insurgent has a blog, and wrote a great entry about the incident, including what he saw and what he did afterwards.

♣OUT OF NOWHERE I developed this lump. I think it was a cyst or a boil, one of those words you associate with trolls, and it was right on my tailbone, like a peach pit. Normally, this is an introduction to something you'd rather not read. But no! It's a new David Sedaris piece in the New Yorker.

♣I JUST GOT a haircut and paid $12 for it. And to think, there are people in this world willing to pay $800.

♣HERE'S AN ABSOLUTELY hilarious account of a reporter and a photographer trying to get quotes from the winners of a contest in which Marlboro flies people to Utah for a quote-unquote cowboy experience. Problem is, though, that the whole affair is top-secret, and for some reason, everyone hates Americans and reporters. "We want the winners to experience the freedom of America," said one company executive. "And we find this is easiest when Americans are not part of the event."

♣YES! THIS IS exactly the kind of idea we need to curb grocery bag use: charge a small fee per bag, as San Francisco is considering. The amount of bags that go to waste is just staggering, because the bags are almost always totally useless. We have hands, people! Use them! You can carry a few items to your car without putting them in a bag. Sure, cashiers may look at you funny when you decline a bag for your three or four items (trust me, I go through this every time I shop), but it's worth it. The Earth will thank you.

♣AS THE ANTI-ABORTION movement gains more steam, are we headed back to the days of coathangers? Here's a scary indication that we might be.

Posted by Jason Feifer at November 24, 2004 05:34 PM