Next week in Science Times, “Pluto’s Deviant Orbit” and “Tail of Comet Found to Be Warm, Supple.”

When I saw this image of Lindsey Lohan, my heart filled up with love.

Love is not usually the emotion I feel when I look at Lindsey Lohan (more like embarrassment), so I knew something had to be wrong. Then I realized that, despite all that tabloid stuff about her mom Dinah, Lindsey Lohan’s real mom […]

Caitlin Flanagan turned in a singularly odd performance as a champion of husband’s rights on last night’s Colbert Report. She railed against the modern concept of Date Night for married couples, the idea that a man might “have to take his wife out for dinner and a Meg Ryan movie just to get some nookie.” […]

From The Onion’s “American Voices” series.
As a daycare provider, I sympathize with Rumsfeld. 2,500 kids die on your watch and suddenly you’re not qualified to do your job?

Great was my amusement when I discovered on April 5 that dictionary.com’s word of the day was cum. Cum as in “with,” of course, but anyone who has been to public school bathroom in the last 10 years knows what was really on dictionary.com’s mind.
Even greater was my amusement when I found that the […]

I’m all in favor of Google expanding into China. After some initial skepticism, I had come to appreciate Google’s policy of engagement. Then, yesterday, I heard this: explaining why Google won’t lobby for the end of censorship in China, CEO Eric Schmidt said,
I think it’s arrogant for us to walk into a country where […]

This very tempting ad was posted at the bottom of an NYT story about hunting captive wildlife:

If there’s anything I want to see, it’s 100’s of hogs. I have to ask: are they running hog-wild?

Lewis Libby told Judy Miller about Valerie Plame. No, Cheney told Libby to tell Miller. No, Bush told Cheney to tell Libby to tell Miller. No, Bush just told Cheney to tell somebody; he didn’t say who. And who cares, because Plame is a loser anyway! Recent coverage of the Plame affair sounds like […]