“Accusations of laziness have been levied against ‘kids these days’ for decades.”
 Every generation is lazy! (A follow-up to this not really rousing defense of the current youngs.) No, but seriously, the kids today are soooo much lazier.

Bank of America is paying just $20 million for having foreclosed improperly on 160 active-duty military service personnel. (This, of course, was frequent predatory lender suit-settler Countrywide in action; Bank of America purchased…

Here you will find the brief history of the cassingle, in graph form. Younger readers can probably just skip right over this one. [Via]

With a gay couple named prom king and queen in Sanford, Maine, and an alleged lesbian-gay male prom king and queen pair at a charter school in Hialeah, FL, and a trans prom queen and gay male prom king in Davie…

Do you know what New York City’s most photographed attraction is? Rep. Anthony Wiener’s penis! Kidding, it’s the Apple store uptown. Of course. Nerds.

Awl pal Meghan Keane explains how Fox News turned her into a “TV slut.” (Hint: It involves makeup.)

I’ve always kind of liked the moon. And have felt an instinct toward protection when friends and colleagues have attacked her in print. What did the moon ever do to us, I thought, except look pretty and give us tides to surf…

I have long thought that a Patriots-Cowboys Super Bowl would be the ultimate competition in which you wished both sides could lose, but apparently I was not being imaginative enough.

“An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies…. The group classified cellphones in category 2B, meaning they are possibly…

This guy will tell you how to lose a bunch of weight, but there is a terrible side effect: you will live considerably longer than you otherwise might have.

Close readers of this site will not find anything particularly new in this profile of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, but it is written by Ariel Levy, who is always a pleasure to read, so it is definitely worth your time. Enjoy! Meanwhile, back in Italy…