Next month, a younger friend of mine is getting married (I introduced them) and, well . . . I’ve visited their registries and there’s nothing that’s really for a guy. I’ve chosen something for her, but I’m wondering whether there’s, for example, a men’s magazine that doesn’t suck. I don’t have deep pockets. $75 is about my limit, I think. Ideas?

I ain’t got nothin’ (better to blog about).

No, it’s not about Scott Beauchamp: There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut. He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and

Writes Long Haired Weirdo: I don’t like shooting down conservative commentary too often – too many targets, so little time — and, it turns out, so little ability — – but there are times when I feel it might be a public service.there’s no checklist, and then list items from what it contains… uh, would contain… uh, if it existed… which it doesn’t. As soon as you start saying “this

Not sure Sean Hannity would recommend these, so forgive me. But here’s the stuff I’m listening to. 1. So That I Don’t Miss You – Nadine 2. The Ballad of Naked Man – Butthole Surfers 3. In Spite of Ourselves – John Prine and Iris DeMent 4. Faithless Love – J.D. Souther 5. Gimme Back My Dog – Slobberbone 6. Gravity’s Gone – Drive-by Truckers 7. The Man Comes Around

Melissa McEwan at Shakespeare’s Sister is justifiably appalled and disgusted with the details of a putative rape that are emerging from Minnesota. It appears that the victim was accosted and raped in the hallway of an apartment building while people passed by in the hallway, and tenants emerged to gaze upon the scene, only to turn their backs and return to their rooms. The accused is named Rage Ibrahim. Locke

…but rather the cover-up. (h/t CJ Burch) All of which reminds me of my own brush with the professional class. Ah, yes. Good times, those… **** update: Not at all related, really, unless you want strain to make a connection. But telling, nevertheless.

From Radley Balko, writing at Reason’s Hit and Run: You have lawmakers who feel they’re above the law. And who at the same time are criminalizing anything and everything they find tacky, repugnant, or immoral. Forgive the lofty language, but you know what? This isn’t healthy for our republic. Nor children or other living things — though ironically, it is always in the children’s name that criminalization of “anything and

I’m off to jump around a bit, so in the mean time, here’s Terry Hastings, via email. The study he’s covering is a couple months old, but I don’t recall reading it before, so it’s new to me: I thought Air America failed because the marketplace wasn’t buying what they were selling. Turns out no one listened because they weren’t required to. But, cheer up, the good folks at americanprogress