Congrats to Vodkapundit Steve Green and his lovely bride Melissa on their recent nuptuals…! And if you’re reading this, Steve — well…then you’re just plain sad. Really. I mean, what are you thinking, dude? This is your honeymoon…! Shameful. I give it a year, tops.

Writing for The National Review, novelist Mark Goldblatt asks, “What Is Racism?” — and then he tries to answer his own question by drawing distinctions between rhetoric and reality, and between what he calls “racist truths” and racist beliefs: […] What does it mean nowadays to call someone, or something, ‘racist’? Is racism in the eye of the beholder, or does it have a proper sense? For me, this is

A while back, Atrios asked, “Why do so many conservatives always complain about campus leftists?” Not to be outdone, Matt Yglesias echoed that sentiment and added his own plausible deniability of the question’s relevance by way of anecdote and comparison: As a centrist college student, the campus left bothers me a great deal, but that’s because I need to live next door to them. Here on summer vacation, the whole

Thanks, everyone, for your kind thoughts and wishes. Posting will remain light for a while — I have some other projects I really should be working on — but never fear…there are plenty of other sites out there better than this one, anyway. For instance, I can think of like, two of them right off the top of my head.

While I’m off attending to personal matters, here’s some fiction to keep you busy. These are early drafts of a couple of chapters from the novel I’m supposed to be working on this summer. Taken totally out of context, of course. (But did I mention there’s sex?) Make of it what you will. If you will. Have a nice weekend. We’ll talk soon.

Found out this afternoon that a buddy of mine from college died yesterday — the second such death of a friend from my undergrad days inside of three weeks. He was 33. If I don’t post for a couple days, you’ll know why. Thanks for understanding.

“With just 116 yuan ($14), Shanghai office worker Han Bin could be the proud owner of a second-hand Volkswagen Passat, if he wins a court battle against the car’s disbelieving seller,” Reuters reports. Han, 20, put in his ridiculously low bid for the car when it was offered over a leading Chinese auction Web site, EachNet.com. By the deadline, no one else had bid and a jubilant Han received confirmation

From Rob Morse’s Monday

Are OB-GYNs cloaking their own preference for C-sections in the rhetoric of women’s choice? — or are today’s women simply too posh to push? US News & World Report’s Susan Brink examines the sharp spike in Cesarean sections and asks, “Progress? Or convenience…?” … For the record, either’s fine with me. Because to be honest with you, I don’t know how women do it at all. I mean, the responsibility