Oh look, Mitt Romney is on a tour of Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan and the U.A.E. Maybe he is giving Hamid Karzai some free consulting. (Maybe he’ll run into Joe Biden! Awkwardsies.) New Gallup polling puts him as third, right…

Science says you remember your first kiss more clearly than the first time you had sex, probably because it lasted longer.

They’re having the Very Special Nanny State Meeting On Why The Snow Storm Was So Crazy and Who Will Protect Me from All This Snow-Gate down at City Hall today. Sad to say, the hearing opened with councilwoman Letitia…

Science is on its way to curing both baldness and the double chin. Now I can eat and take really hot showers with impunity!

The Aliens Are Going To Use Us All For Parts

Here’s a new thing to fear:

When considering the…

On this Day in 1938

Comes word of The 1938 Almanac for New Yorkers, a WPA Federal Writers’ Program publication, which is online in its entirety. What a week it was, and is again!

There is still an ongoing appeal in this one, but anyway: “A judge ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.”

The world’s worst mommy blogger: “Little Harrison is here! I was going to post a photo but he’s not looking his best yet. As soon as he burst out I thought, ‘Oh great, Grandpa Wenmouth’s nose.’ That was my worst fear (Sandy also has Wenmouth’s nose, and we like to tease her about it: Oh, Sandy…

Attention sports fans: Awl pal Dan Shanoff’s Quickish — a real-time news aggregator — launches today. Check it out.

Iconic designer Milton Glaser is the latest old Jew telling a joke.

The levels of rudeness among British shoppers have apparently reached epidemic proportions: “A few examples from my local supermarket. Over Christmas, a punch-up broke out in a queue after one customer accused another of pushing in. A few weeks before that…

Finally, a breakthrough in the battle against piracy: “Marauding pirates could soon find themselves up against a new long-range laser weapon, designed to leave them blinded, bewildered and all at sea.” Also: “While the effects are not permanent, the light should…