Wow, well, here is an essay from N+1 by a straight man about the tyranny of marriage. In part, he is disappointed that the gays, on the whole, have given up striving for complicated…

Fresh news from the diaper beat: “In another unwelcome first for the world’s fastest-ageing society, the Japanese market for nappies is now split evenly between two groups: the under-2s and the over-40s. In a couple of years, says Japan’s largest…

Is contraception changing the way women choose who they’re going to sleep with?

Women’s preferences for certain male scents and features are thought to change during their cycle. For example, as they approach ovulation, women…

In the wake of controversy over its ad characterizing a father’s coming out as “super super gay” to his family as an unpleasant surprise, Canadian sandwich chain Mr. Sub has fired BOS, the agency responsible for the spot. “[W]e were very careful to downplay the reactions of the family…

To Knifecrime Island, where bouts are occasionally settled without the use of a shank: “Two yobs who attacked a pair of cross-dressers picked on the wrong guys — they were cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress. When [the bare-chested assailant] aimed a punch at one of…

Bad news for Silvio: “Italy’s highest court has overturned a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office. The Constitutional Court annulled the law, which had let him withdraw from several cases. In one he was facing…

A swine flu victim who suffered through the disease has described the horrors of her ordeal: “The worst of it came in slowly on Saturday afternoon: an excruciating, horrifying, unimaginably painful sore throat, the likes of which you haven’t experienced unless you’ve had strep…

Further signs of The New Poverty: “Neiman Marcus Group Inc. mailed out its annual Christmas Book catalog, which each year features over-the-top “fantasy” gifts, to one million customers on Tuesday. But for the first time in a decade, there isn’t a seven- or…

To the world of publishing:

News reports that Sarah Palin is planning a separate Christian version of her forthcoming memoir, Going Rogue, are false, according to her publisher, HarperCollins. The reports…

A crazy idea is apparently sweeping through the minds of those brilliant fat cats down in Washington: what if capitalists were rewarded for hiring workers? I guess we are setting aside the idea that businesses are already rewarded for hiring workers, because…

Via Fark, there’s this:

No one has ever told 7-year-old Dominic Osorio that he has brain cancer. Instead, his mother devised a story and made him the lead character. When Dominic undergoes surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, he…