NYT. Hey, if my research grant money depended on it, I guarantee you that I could find over 500 reasons for mating.

I have to agree with Ross Douthat on this one.

WP. Fred realizes that the mainstream views media are worthless. Go, Fred.

NYT. And almost everything else, seems like.

WSJ. A hero that not even Arnold Schwarzenegger can screw up.

WSJ. The voice of the new generation. Apparently, one of the quickest ways to fame and fortune is to write a book about how to acquire fame and fortune without all the bother of working.

Works for me.

NYT. Tell the truth: Have you ever seen an old mole? There, I rest my case.

Engadget. Not sure how this will work in practice, but the concept is pretty cool.

Item. Where Jonah Goldberg finds these things I have no idea.

Techdirt. Apparently newspapers are among the middlemen getting eliminated.

Item. The real America is still out there, you just have to search for it.

NYT. I guess lawyers were just charging too much.

Item.

This would make the basis of a really neat science fiction story.

Item. I can’t wait for the movie.

Item. I bought a 35 when it came out, as did pretty much every guy in my Division on the USS John F Kennedy. It was $400, about a month’s pay for me at the time, and I was damned glad to get it.

Item. This is actually very clever.

Item. Oh, yes.

Item. Now that’s entertainment.

Item. We all want minions some day.

Item. Wonder how AlGore feels about that.

Buying in Los Angeles did not appeal to Ms. Pike, who says that although she finds it the easiest city to live in, she is turned off by its natural instability: “the earthquakes, the landslides, the fires.”

Not to mention the wierdos.

Item. Ah, but does it protect the surrounding community against tornados?

Item. Wow. You can keep your touch-sensitive coffee table.

Item. Every Noble Cause is a marketing opportunity. God bless America.

Item. Slow news day. Or perhaps they have a big “Connections” tournament coming up, and this is practice.

Item. The Kremlinology of cartoons, or: Some people have too much idle time.

Been there, done that….

Item. Yeah, tinkering is for wimps.

Item. Nice when you can afford to do that.

Item. How, exactly, does one get to be an “ethicist”? That sounds like a great job, for which I feel eminently qualified, but I can’t find any openings on CareerBuilder….

Item. Ya, sure, you betcha — eh?

Item. Pretty amazing.

Item. Oh, but what a way to go.

Item. From Language Log: The joys of following instructions.

Item. All it takes is a little motivation.

Item. Sometimes it will astonish you.

Item. I guess the “format wars” aren’t even close to being over.

Item. Wouldn’t that be cool.

Item. Unlike the New York Times, the WaPo will sometimes surprise you by printing sense.

Item. Breathe deep. BE the book.

Item. John Scalzi is a National Treasure. In his non-fiction writing he reminds me a lot of Harlan Ellison, although I like John’s fiction more than I do Harlan’s.

(I still have fond memories of Harlan’s shredding of the “Good Grammar or Good Taste” cigarette ads, back when he was writing The Glass Teat for the L A Free Press. Ah, those were the days….)

Item. I’m appalled that they didn’t mention Steve Graham’s book.

Item. Four Navy Crosses plus the Medal of Honor. There were giants in those days.

Item. Now this is just stone cool.

Item. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. No, really.

Item. Only in America.