"This is the most ass-o-centric painting I've ever seen."

Say I, viewing this NYT article "Thomas Hart Benton Masterwork Goes to Met." The photo at the link is only one panel of said mast...

"A man... has been arrested after he was found to be carrying genitals in his wallet..."

In South Africa. It reminds me of that line spoken by Jimmy Stewart in the movie "Vertigo": "You shouldn't keep souvenirs...

Obama's speech is "coming from his loins."

Says Axelrod, apparently noticing how ... odd that sounds and adding, jocosely, "I just wanted to say loins. I wanted to see if I coul...

"That is the head of one who toyed with my honour."

Said the rape victim, arrested near the head she severed from her attacker.

Exactly what it says it is.

"A dramatic interpretation of Sir Mix-A-Lot's 'Baby Got Back' as if it were performed by actor Sir Ian McKellen." Via ...

"It’s hard to find pants"... size matters!

"Förstemann’s thighs, each comparable to a watermelon, measured 34 inches — wider than his waist."

"3D-printed sugar network to help grow artificial liver."

"Sugar is a very nice material that can be dissolved away in the presence of living tissue very friendly to biological tissue." We...

"The 'Today' co-host saga took an almost surreal turn Friday morning..."

"... with Savannah Guthrie slipping into Ann Curry’s old chair and everyone around her, including the network, acting as if nothing had...

Utilikilts.

Instapundit brings up the topic this morning, pointing to Manolo, who says he gets the idea: You are the unconventional, free-spirited, ma...

"Handless man throws volleyball-size rock through KFC window...:

"The 46-year-old also allegedly chucked a brick through KFC’s drive-through window..." ADDED: An element of this mystery — why did...

"New Jersey man stabbed himself, threw skin and intestines at cops..."

Reports the Daily News , where comments in the "That took a lot of guts" vein are accumulating. Don't tell me... bath salts......

"In France, they’d be unpacking their glorious foods and beverages. En famille! Not so here."

"We tend to like to plump down on a chair or a towel and feel the sun move from one point to the next. Or, in the inevitable quest for ...

"Keith Haring's Men's Room Mural Is As NSFW As You'd Imagine."

"Penises grow human heads with mouths that suck the toes of other human shapes that in turn contort into Mobius-strips of sucking, perf...

Angelina's leg...

... is everywhere.

"Women follow rules better than men do, so the women do better in school."

"But, there is no correlation between doing well in school and doing well in adult life. And there might be a reverse correlation, beca...

"If Brett Favre's penis could talk, what would it say?"... well, Bill Maher made it say something about Sarah Palin.

I laughed and yelled at Bill Maher when I heard this : I'm sure that, being a political comedian, Maher is perfectly happy that he was c...

"Obama's speech to Gen44 tonight knocked my socks off.... If you've forgotten why many of you worked your ass off for this guy..."

Socks off... ass off... You can discuss the substance of Andrew Sullivan's new celebration of the amazing oratory of Barack Obama, but ...

"Her exposed midriff that is the cynosure of all eyes has become the talking point in Bollywood."

Sorry, I've gotten absorbed in The Times of India this morning. I love the writing style. Cynosure . It has never in my life occurred t...

When mosquitoes come to the Althouse café...

... they always order elbows.

"The stomach is just a swelling in the gut - it's primarily a vessel."

"You can manage very well with no stomach and the sisters will live perfectly normal lives." 2 sisters have their stomachs removed...