Amorous Ephemera
- Flashing tourist (NSFW)
- Man-beast erotica in advertising
- Raquel Welch turned 70 over the weekend
- The truth as rendered by Yakov Smirnov (NSFW)
Big Athletica
- Does Brett Favre’s invulnerability, and the endless agony it puts him through in terms of retirement choices, make him Faust? (Pal Rob introduced this theory to me last night.)
Cosmonautica
Deep-Fried Dystopia
- 18% of people think the economy is fit as a fucking fiddle
- Does speaking truth to power even work?
- Hitchens: “…I pause to take part in a thought experiment, and to ask myself: Am I in favor of the untrammeled ‘free exercise of religion’? No, I am not.”
- Jacob Weisberg on Obama, re: gay marriage: “How dismal that America’s first black president will be remembered as shirking the last great civil rights struggle.”
- Los Angeles school named after Al Gore full of toxic contaminants
- Seattle police, whom I’ve found to be quite friendly, nevertheless have much blood on their hands right now
Divine Illumination
- Sean Carroll expounds on Stephen Hawking’s recent God talk
I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind!
- “Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.” — Jessamyn West
Look at That Pussy!
- If you live in Austin, Texas and find yourself in dire need of kittens, here’s the place to go
The Road to Hell is Paved With Misspent Tax Dollars
- Light rail hijinks in Seattle
- Welcome to Portland, a city run by 16-year-olds prone to penis humor
