Here is a font, brought to our attention by designers House of Pretty, in which every letter is formed by a twisted jockstrap.

Institutions who have recently lost their Triple-A credit rating include Bristol-Myers Squibb, AIG and Merck. The next corporation to get downgraded could be Great Britain.

In the service of parents everywhere, Fox Atlanta today released a list of text acronyms parents should know. As much as we applaud their commitment to child safety and paternal supervision, many items on the list are inaccurate or flat-out wrong. Here are the actual translations…

Howard Hodgkin interview

“If you love someone, you include them in your life in any way you can.” This profile of weepy British painter Sir…

The future is becoming clear: it will be a place where we all must associate with Jews. Right now, America’s small, backwater, provincial country clubs are going under! “Out: the filet mignon for $30. In: super nachos for $7.95.”

Shorts: Not only are they inappropriate for grown men, but apparently, due to complicated structural engineering issues, they are more expensive than pants. I will feel so much better this weekend about my fully-clad legs and sweaty undercarriage. Also of…

Finance blogger Felix Salmon does some math and assures us that “a U.S. default is almost certainly not going to happen.” Just making a record of that, in case something goes awry!

New York Post letter writers: an educated, passionate lot.

Law firm Fish & Richardson just deferred two-thirds of their incoming first-year associates. That’s pretty bad! Though don’t feel terrible for them. Half those kids are all getting paid $5000 a month for a year to not…

USA Today: “Army commanders are failing to punish or seek treatment for a growing number of soldiers who test positive for substance abuse, possibly because they don’t want to lose any more combat troops, the Army’s vice chief of staff has warned.”

Today in the Brooke Astor estate-tampering trial:

“Who is the black fellow who is sitting next me?” Brooke Astor had asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at a dinner at her apartment in January 2002.

“He is Kofi Annan,” Mr. Kissinger replied.

In the space of twenty years Texas Republicans have gone from fondly reminiscing about being serviced by whores to demonizing whorehouses altogether. I suppose that’s progress of a sort?

Los Angeles is down to a mere 29 billionaires, after a year in which the city’s fifty wealthiest residents lost a combined $32 billion. “Activist investor” Kirk Kerkorian lost five billion alone. The only two names on the top ten list of rich people to have actually made money…

The economy explained: “We need good numbers as opposed to less bad numbers,” says a BlackRock portfolio manager. Makes sense to me!

So I guess this site is mentioned in Russ Smith’s interview with Michael Wolff, and he’s kind of dismissive of it? It would probably look petty if we didn’t link to it? But it is extremely long and, if the very beginning is any indication, full of the…

In re the latest latest foiled terror plot-four small-time criminals planned to blow up a couple of temples in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an air base in Newburgh-a few questions: Are the authorities only breaking up conspiracies planned by demonstrable idiots, are…