Oh, great: “[R]esearchers in Vancouver report that they’ve found bed bugs with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. The scientists studied five bed bugs, taken from three patients treated at St. Paul’s Hospital. All three patients…

By now, you will have tried to read Matt Taibbi’s latest, which makes the case, which in my book was already made, that there should be criminal investigations at Goldman Sachs. I say “tried” because this is…

Understanding England’s “Gag Order” Scandal

Balk: So, and this will never happen but I want someone to match all the silhouettes…

Here is an analysis of how the Daily Mail solves the problem of “how to optimise for the high-volume search term ‘Pippa Middleton’s arse’.” And here you will find an argument that newspapers write about Pippa Middleton’s arse (or, as we have it here, “Pippa…

“How did people make soup before stick blenders? They are the absolute stone cold nuts. You can fuck up a soup real bad and a stick blender will totally make it presentable. Having a stick blender is like a cheat code for Call Of Duty: Soup.”
 — Is this really a cooking blog by…

“Standing just 3ft 5ins tall and weighing a staggering 14st 5lbs, this child weighs five times more than she should…. She is the same weight as two Kylie Minogues, a Great Dane or England rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.”
 — Doing some rudimentary math, I have determined that a…

A tip from a pro: “In this hypertrendspotting environment, you have to be snappy. Once a Williamsburg trend hits the New York Times, it’s only good for laughing at the cluelessness of Manhattanites. The real prize is catching a possible trend in its early…

“I know I harp on Rand a lot, but I can’t get over the outsized influence over public life commanded by an utter nutball. If we had prominent members of Congress running around citing the theories of Lyndon LaRouche, people would freak out. That’s the situation we’re in.”
 — The…

From 2005–2008, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reviewed 156 books on Amazon.com. Slate’s David Weigel assess the critical oeuvre.

While the Texas legislature is currently on track to enact deep cuts to public schools, do not let it be said that the state’s lawmakers are completely against the learning process.