I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Schadenfreude, with wit: “Last month, Nevada Sen. John Ensign had to resign his Republican leadership post to spend more time with his sex scandal…. Like Sanford, Palin snuck away to visit a distant land and fell in love with a siren she cannot bring home or leave behind. Her fatal attraction was the national spotlight.”

Further on Palin, did she seriously say that she didn’t want to be lame duck because it’s not enough fun for her (or, generously, for the state)? She does know that term limits mean that lame duckishness is a feature of the system, right? Who’s supposed to be running the show in such circumstances? I am baffled.

( Steve Almond on everything and Mary Roach on sex )

I'm finally over my bitterness enough to rewatch the X-Files. Now nearing the end of Season 3, I must say that Teso dos Bichos really doesn't stand out as the fount of badness. I think coming right after Pusher and having no relationship moments at all made fandom bitter about it. The stuffed cat didn't help either, but honestly, it wasn't that much worse than many of S3's monsters of the week.

( nonfiction: gifts, copyright, sociology, sin, candy )