Secrets of Penis Enlargement Revealed! on “Two Missing U.S. Soldiers Found Dead in Iraq” (NOW WITH MORE SULLIVAN!) That’s what the kids are calling it?

Why Gallup chose to put the word “patriotic” in scare quotes in writing about its own poll is left for the reader to ponder. Inasmuch as it came up in the discussion of Barack Obama’s “national service” plan the other day, I highlight the fact that 78% of those surveyed find military service shows a great deal about the person’s patriotism, and 48% say the same about supporting US policies around the

No, not Jesse Helms. Opportunity for Chuck Adkins?

The influential New Jersey band (perhaps occupying the sonic space between the Talking Heads, Ramones and the Velvet Underground) that disbanded in 1992 has been doing a series of reunion shows this week, culminating by opening for Sonic Youth in Battery Park today.  Jon Pareles has had not one, but two articles on their return in the New York Times.  Video from their June 30th private warm-up at the legendary Maxwell’s

Today’s New York Times piece by John Branch on big American flags belongs to a genre perhaps invented by the Grey Lady (see, e.g., the paper’s elitist coverage of suburban chain restaurants), in which the paper attempts to explain the alien culture of the United States to its core readership: Once the gaudy lure of attention-seeking car dealerships or other roadside attractions, big flags have found a comfortable home inside the ballparks, arenas and raceways

As Karl and Allah note, we’ve got Obama! I mean, who needs more than the quintessence of nuance? That’s the pharmaceutical grade stuff.

I’ve been out to see the sky anemones with the younger Monsterlings and Mrs. Horrible up in Bristol on a chilly Vermont evening with temps in the mid-fifties, probably, and I’ll be working tomorrow and Saturday to buy a little breathing space for some co-workers. My buddy Bob is taking Brendan to see Cheap Trick at Summerfest in Milwaukee, while he’s got a little time off from the summer Arabic

Yesterday, I posted a link to an article about scientific research indicating that men’s and lesbian’s brains are similarly asymmetrical, with a preponderance of development in the right hemisphere, whereas women’s and gay men’s brains are more symmetrical. I jovially suggested in the title that lesbians were “men with breasts.” After I’d retired for the evening, Dr. Caric appeared in the comments and stated that my post was homophobic. What

Barack Obama now says he would be open to “refine” his policies about a timeline for withdrawing troops from Iraq after meeting with US military commanders in Iraq later this month.  This statement follows three different versions of his Iraq policy floated by Obama’s advisers and surrogates over the past two days. As Rick Klein of ABC News puts it: There will be only one relevant question now out of Obama’s trip now:

Head to the nearest Home Depot and ask if maybe you can give one of their industrial belt sanders a little test drive. Then, while the clerk in the unpressed orange apron stands frozen in horror, run that fucker along your forehead and temple until hairclumps and pressurized skull dust create a kind of chalky-smelling mist that settles on the wood plank like some gruesome sandstorm. — After which, turn