Check it out. I laughed.

Psycho-babe Naomi Campbell attacked two cops after British Airways lost her luggage. In her defense, she alleges that someone on the plane, not a passenger, called her a “racial name.” This is her third assault conviction.

Even stranger is an old voice-mail that Denise Richards has released in which ex-husband Charlie Sheen calls her a “f***ing n****r.” In his apology, Sheen mentions that the best man at his wedding was African-American.

In case you missed them, a few numbers on the Iraq war, lifted from Adam Shatz's piece in the LRB a few months ago:

$200 billion: initial estimate of the cost of the war by Bush economic advisor Larry Lindsey
$50-60 million: revised estimate proposed by Donald Rumsfeld
$2.4 billion: estimate for reconstruction costs, according to the head of the Agency for International Development, Andrew Nastios (including $700 for humanitarian relief)

$634 billion: amount approved by U.S. Congress so far for direct expenditures on the war
$285 billion: estimated lifetime veteran benefits for soldiers fighting in the war
$400 billion: estimated disability and social security costs for war veterans (assuming some fairly optimistic numbers about troop withdrawal and drops in casualty rates)

The issue of how the war has effected oil prices is complicated, but estimates on the global costs related to this wander into the low trillions.

On the assumption that you're not going to read the whole article, I'll give you the end. What does an Armenian refugee tell a British novelist who asks him what he wants?

New South Korean president Lee Myung-bak (nicknamed “The Bulldozer” and “MB”) has been having a tough time lately, with a low approval rating and mass protests. The NYT summary of the protests over importing U.S. beef is a good one; I think it captures some of the background on why this issue has become such a emotional one. I also like blogger Matt's coverage of protests in Seoul and other cities, including photographs of the building mob. He links to an interesting piece by blogger kotaji on the use of barricades, who notes that “over the last decade or so the barricades have been reversed and police forces around the world have become experts in stacking shipping containers to protect places of power and privilege in the same way that the Parisian working class became experts in a similar art during the course of the 19th century.” Last but not least, blogger Matt also gives a great historical overview of the protest places used for protest in Seoul.

News of the World has obtained a five-hour video of Max Mosley, the 67-year-old president of the Formula One racing commission and the son of British arch-fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, engaging in Nazi S&M role playing with five girls, for which he paid the sum of 2,500 pounds.

The details are banal but the connection is interesting: fascism, motor car rallies, sexual humiliation. Time to reread Sontag, who argued that “between sadomasochism and fascism there is a natural link”?

In this raw footage, a producer from the BIll O'Reilly show named Porter Barry tries unsuccessfully to ambush Bill Moyers at a media conference.

It's interesting as a behind-the-scenes look at journalism, a contrast between two styles and two schools old and new, and a finger in the shifting wind of the spirit of our times.

An NYT article about “Wild Geese” families — South Korean families in which the mother and children live abroad for the kids' education while the father stays in Korea.

Here is a clip of Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons) singing at a 2005 Leonard Cohen tribute concert in Sydney, Australia.