A couple of books.

I was just asking for some ideas for a conversation about end-of-the-year things, and now I've had the conversation, which I'll be ...

"Time honors Sandra Fluke as 'Person of the Year' finalist."

That's the Breitbart headline for an item that begins "Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itse...

Gender role reversal on a very old — and lame — scenario.

"A British woman is divorcing her hubby on grounds the erotic bestseller 'Fifty Shades of Grey' failed to get a rise out of his...

"Binders full of women."

Lots more here . Binders full! ADDED: "Big Bird, binders, and Seamus key tenets of Democratic plans for the future..."

"Self-reliance — the new edgy lifestyle for the trendsetters among America’s youth?"

Glenn Reynolds asks in a NY Post column. In today’s culture of immediate reward, a work ethic centering on self-discipline and the ability t...

"What sexbots will do is widen the already growing chasm between the sexes, until only the fittest of the fit... can successfully leap across it to woo a human companion in the way that our genetic overlord intended."

Writes Heartiste , noting that "fitness is whatever gets one’s genes to the next generation, whether beneficial to civilization or note...

What happened to all the manly men?

The NYT asks a bunch of people, including Natasha Scripture, who says : Come to think of it, I haven’t met a manly man in quite some time. M...

50 Shades of Gary.

Typo I just made, observed the comic potential of, and, after Googling , discovered had already been deployed. Speaking of typos and "S...

"I am interested in the culture... and in sexuality, so I'll talk about what it might mean that so many women are reading a novel that depicts sado-masochism."

Said I , in the comments to this morning's Drudge in B&W post , which invoked the popular novel "Shades of Grey, " and p...

Drudge goes black-and-white with Rahm, Brad Pitt, Uncle Sam, and Obama.

Look. Only Pitt and Rahm are photographs. Obama — like Uncle Sam — is done with artwork. Pretty bad artwork. It looks like a bad drawing, an...

Book reviewer's weapon: the Kindle search.

Chez Amazon, a customer review — voted overwhelmingly "helpful" — complains about bad writing in the form of repetition and prove...

"50 Shades of Grey" — the audiobook: "Hear it as it was meant to be heard."

NSFW... but really funny. Laughed 'til I cried at phrases like "the front wall of my vagina." CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Vi...