Broadsheet turned me on to Holla Back NYC, a blog on which women can call out/poke fun at guys who flirt with them on the street. Here’s Holla Back’s tagline:
Whether you’re commuting, lunching, partying, dancing, walking, chilling, drinking, or sunning, you have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of […]

Do the other kids in junior high make fun of you for talking about your feelings, using lotion, and enjoying the films of Almodóvar? That’s okay! NYT says you’re a winner:

It’s not just your mom saying it anymore.

In another fun and largely speculative item, NYT’s Pam Belluck talks to Michael Shinagel, dean of the Harvard Extension School. Apparently the average age of HES students is getting younger, although HES doesn’t actually keep count, presumably because such crass numbercrunching would be beneath them. Absent any sort of hard data, how does Dr. Shinagel […]

I’m reading an email from my friend. It’s about my job and his love life. But secretly, I’m thinking about . . .

Yup. Horse-lovers. Thousands of ‘em. Also, Watches for cats. Where can I get me some of these items? Luckily, Google AdWords knows!

Journalists from Maureen Dowd to Sara Vilkomerson of the New York Observer have taken to chronicling the dating habits of their peers. Naysayers dismiss the practice as so much elitist navelgazing — but they haven’t heard the latest:
Bay Area Twentysomethings Dating Other Bay Area Twentysomethings
Twentysomethings in the San Francisco Bay Area have discovered the next […]

Want to see the saddest picture ever?
Thought so.

Second in a series of investigative reports that reveal inconvenient things about conservative operatives:
Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.
Ex-chairman Kenneth Tomlinson’s missteps include illegal lobbying, submitting potential employees to […]

A report by the Government Accountability Office suggests that the decision to block over-the-counter sales of the contraceptive Plan B was more political than scientific. Observe:
While FDA followed its general procedures for considering the application, four aspects of FDA’s review process were unusual. First, the directors of the offices that reviewed the application, who would […]

Times have been rough for Knight Ridder, publishers of The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer. So rough, in fact, that they’re considering changing their business model:

Right. I guess they got sick of giving them away.

From a snide New Yorker item on the proliferation of the phrase “up-or-down vote” in the debate over judicial confirmation:
“We believe that every judicial nominee deserves an up-or-down vote,” said Karl Rove. Boing, boing. It was like watching a trampoline exhibition.
From Oracle Support, to me:
At 10:30, we need to “bounce the server” which will take […]