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