“Former Baywatch star and Playboy model Traci Bingham stopped traffic in Berlin by wearing a lettuce bikini to promote vegetarianism,” Reuters reports. “Bingham, who played the life-guard Jordan in the hit U.S. television series, spent more than half an hour Thursday posing for the cameras wiggling between a famous steak restaurant and Berlin’s Kurfuerstendamm shopping street.” The protest was organized by the animal rights group PETA. Bingham’s bikini of fake

“Authorities say Miami Dolphins linebacker Derrick Rodgers kicked and punched his wife and hit a man with a metal chair at a Miami Beach restaurant. “Rodgers is [c]harged with aggravated battery and other crimes after yesterday’s arrest. He’s still in jail, pending a bond hearing today,” the AP reports. Miami Beach police say Rodgers was arrested yesterday afternoon. Witnesses say they identified the 6-foot-1, 235-pound Rodgers as the man who

Armed Liberal has been hosting an interesting discussion of postmodernism’s role in shaping political culture — included in which is this latest post, wherein A.L. argues that […] in a world where competing narratives are ultimately equally valid�in Stanley Fish�s world�Israeli soldiers might as well have dragged women and children from their homes and shot them. Because that is the Palestinian truth. And no �fact-checking� or �investigation� could materially change

“One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately.” With explanations for why you should remove them. From Jaguaro.org. A cursory glance at the titles suggests that the compiler of this list is a know-nothing bastard. Either that, or that I’m so uncool that I may as well take to calling people “sport” and wearing socks with pastel-colored shorts and open-toed sandals. Sport. [via Subaverage]

“Thirteen members of a family are suing the operator of a [Chesapeake, VA] Pizza Hut for $2 million, alleging they were refused service because they are black,” Newsday reports. “Colonial Foods LLC maintains that employees tried to explain to the family that they couldn’t be served because the restaurant had run out of cheese and couldn’t make any more pizzas.” ‘It was a cheese issue, not a race issue,’ said

In response to growing criticisms leveled against the academy’s Middle East Studies establishment, MESA president Joel Beinin sent along an email to certain members of the Middle Eastern Studies Association urging them to fight to regain public credibility. The text of that email is recounted by Beth Henary, writing in The Weekly Standard: ‘You are probably aware that the public attack on American Middle East studies and MESA in particular

Writing in the Washington Post today, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel pulls his head out of his own ass long enough* to announce that negotiating for peace with a bloody, butchering, ratfaced terror monger is in everybody’s best interest: Young Palestinians need to see their future in a peaceful, fully functioning state with economic opportunities and democratic institutions. If they do not, and instead see violence and destruction as the only

You think anybody’d be upset if the Maryland and DC police started profiling pygmies…?

The brotherhood of non-signifying Pepperheads grows and grows. And America is stronger for it… Dr Pepper trivia, for you steganographers still paying attention: David Naughton, of American Werewolf in London fame, was the original “I’m a Pepper” teevee guy. And if he wasn’t, he was for me. Which is the same thing. He also sang the theme to the Streisand/O’Neal flick, The Main Event — which you have my permission