Here is a terrifying and not-really-safe-for-work pictorial project about two gay guys in harnesses on a picnic! I don’t know, it is dirty and there are Pepperidge Farm cookies, and was made by the collaborative duo of Julien and Stéphane, two 24-year-olds. ART APPRECIATION.

Today, New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat weighs in on the “controversial power grabs” of the liberal Supreme Court, though he notes that “right-wingers, too, have grown accustomed to turning to the Court.” The court overturns…

Michiko Kakutani reviews Renegade: The Making of a President, by Richard Wolffe, the MSNBC analyst who can claim the important distinction of having been in the tank and on the trail for almost as long as anyone else who covered Barack Obama’s race for the White House…

Carolyn Smeaton is worried. The 48-year-old resident of Fall River, MA, used to smoke 3 packs a day, but cut that amount in half by supplementing her habit with e-cigarettes-liquid nicotine vaporizers. “It’s far exceeded my expectations,” she told her local…

Congratulations to the Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd.! I wish it many successes with the Hummer, its newest product.

Agh. WaPo: “Air Force Finds Signs of Plane Wreckage About 375 Miles Off Coast.” Including… seats.

Postcard from Los Angeles! “Months before financial markets collapsed in fall 2008, boutique proprietor Lee-Lee Sprenger noticed that her usually free-spending customers were flinching at $900 price tags on sweaters fresh from Italy.”

Long-time blogger (and even longer-time Canadian) Joe Clark has announced his new book project, “The Cranky Copyright Book.” It promises to investigate that huge swath of intellectual territory between the RIAA and Cory Doctorow; his point being that neither party in…

Dude holds other dude’s hand.

Former Senator Rick Santorum suggests that President Obama could just as easily set a good example for black people-who hate marriage-by getting his wife loaded at some neighborhood dive. Everyone knows fancy dinners and Broadway shows are for white people anyway.

A thorough review of “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here”: “all I could think of was Herzog, Herzog, Herzog”!

Columnist Objects To Coconut Facial

Some lady in Chicago was not amused by the Enimem/Bruno stunt at Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards…

Newish Hollywood site The Wrap presents an “investigation” which reveals “that the reality of reality shows is not nearly so benign: at least 11 reality-show participants have taken their own lives — and two more who have tried to — in tragedies that…

TNR has a blistering critique of Arianna Huffington. It is over 6000 words long. Here’s a sample: “Huffington is one of those writers who mistakes press criticism for the entirety of social and political criticism. Her condescension toward the press is endless: ‘Someone please alert the media: not…

Meghan McCain is PISSED OFF: “# Hey Washington Monthly, so it’s only important to speak out for marriage equality if your an old man?”