Oh, Britney! You naughty li’l minx, you! Such a nasty girl you are. All’s I can say is, somebody’s due for a good spanking. A nice, loooong spanking, too. Yup. It’ll be for your own good, though, honey. Trust me. This’ll hurt me a lot more than it hurts you, Britney baby…

Oh, Britney! You naughty li’l minx, you! Such a nasty girl you are. All’s I can say is, somebody’s due for a good spanking. A nice, loooong spanking, too. Yup. It’ll be for your own good, though, honey. Trust me. This’ll hurt me a lot more than it hurts you, Britney baby…

First, it was the Yale chick, with her “bobbin’-for-apples, if-you-know-what-I-mean”-lifestyle column. Now, even certain fish are getting involved with the intrigue of sexual politics: Swedish scientists have found that female brown trout fake orgasms in about half of their spawnings. Erik Peterrson of Sweden’s National Board of Fisheries said out of 117 spawnings they observed, 69 were false orgasms. During a normal spawning, the female digs a gravel pit for

Here. Here’s some Republican helmed Nanny-statism.

…So I’m watching “Good Morning, America,” and Diane Sawyer is interviewing some bossy health Nazi who’s just written a book, Restaurant Confidential, promising to expose the “dirty little secrets” of restaurant fare. Among the startling revelations? That cheese fries are high in calories and fat, and that restaurants are giving you too much food for your money. Curse your capitalism! Damn your double-edged potato skin generosity! In fact, Diane Sawyer

Gary: “Dominus vobiscum.” Meersman: “Et cum spiritu tuo.” Gary (grinning): “There’ll always be a Meersman.”

Gary: “Dominus vobiscum.” Meersman: “Et cum spiritu tuo.” Gary (grinning): “There’ll always be a Meersman.”

Good stuff in Jay Nordlinger’s latest NRO “Impromptus” column — including this undressing (sorry if the image scars you; me, I’m mildly excited by it) of the Washington Post’s Mary McGrory: Mary McGrory, longtime columnist for the Washington Post, ended her recent column this way: ‘George Bush would rather keep Cubans hungry than take any chances for himself and his brother with the folks who thought Elian Gonzalez would be

“Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created the first realistic videos of people saying things they never said — a scientific leap that raises unsettling questions about falsifying the moving image,” The Boston Globe reports. “In one demonstration, the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera, and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to

From Reuters: “Soccer-mad criminals have been turning themselves in to British police stations in the hope of completing a short jail sentence in time to watch the World Cup, British newspapers reported on Friday. In ‘Operation Red Card’, police in Hertfordshire, north of London, sent a simple message to defendants who have been failing to turn up in court: surrender now or spend the World Cup in a police cell