"Angry residents pelted utility crews with eggs as they tried to restore power in Bridgeport, Conn...."

"... after the mayor claimed the local power company had 'shortchanged' the state's largest city as it tries to recover fro...

What if men sang about longing for life in the larger world the way the Little Mermaid did?

Via Metafilter , where I think people are experiencing this as really sweet, because these are — presumably — fathers and the fathers are wa...

Tammy and Tommy debated again last night.

We'd gone out to the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery to hear physicist Sean M. Carroll give a talk about the universe . The universe ...

"Cosmo remains the ne plus ultra of usually implausible, occasionally unfathomable, and invariably hilarious sexy tips..."

... so here are the 44 most ridiculous ones. Did I ever tell you about the job I had (before I went to law school) reading magazines? We pr...

"Somehow I get the feeling that when young Ann Althouse refused to eat the carrots on her dinner plate, her parents just sighed and got out the Cap'n Crunch."

Roy Edroso cuts and pastes some of my very best material onto his blog, but leaves me out of his Village Voice column "Dog Soldiers: R...

Politico's Ben Smith has trouble getting his mind around Rick Perry's manliness.

This is a weird column — titled "Was Perry packing?" Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a leading advocate of gun rights who likes to boast ...

The mysterious orange goo found in Alaska is... eggs!

But what creature's eggs, we don't know. The eggs were found on at least one roof and in buckets set all over the village to collect...

"Walkerville Summer Camp is officially in session, and there were minimal problems to report..."

"... in spite of David Blaska’s doom and gloom about some sort of Leftist Apocalypse happening as a result of the event’s city approva...

"He's a figment of her imagination. An eggment of her imagination."

He doesn't have ego. He has eggo.

"Kentucky man cracks, kills wife and four others over improperly cooked eggs."

Is that a properly written headline about improperly cooked eggs? 6 people are dead... Should you write "cracks... eggs"? And am ...

"The government is pushing these food poisoning events because they want to over-regulate."

Writes commenter SWWBO in  yesterday's egg thread: You should look into some of the regulations currently being considered by the FDA an...

What do you egg-spect?

What a waste! I always assume raw eggs are tainted with salmonella and handle them accordingly. Cook them. Wash your hands!

"The pain becomes early if it puts it in the plastic bag etc."

"Garbage of an egg to a trash box."

I'm nostalgic for Muzak.

You could ignore it. It was designed to fade into the background , and we used to scoff at it for precisely that reason. Now, I have to list...

We found morels.

We looked the hard way yesterday... and the easy way today: At the Dane County Farmers Market: Where they'll sell you the supplies to gr...

"Una had stretched out on the bed of the guillotine; I lifted the lunette, made her put her head through it, and closed it on her long neck, after carefully lifting her heavy hair."

"She was panting. I tied her hands behind her back with my belt, then raised her skirt. I didn't even bother to lower her panties.....

"My God, it's a mansion!"

"It's a house." Now, have a nice breakfast. And don't sell the house. I love this house.

"That's it then? That's the jumping on the eggs?"

(Via BoingBoing .)

The L.A. ban on new fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods.

Isn't it outrageous to limit only the restaurants that cater to poor people ? The moratorium’s definition of a fast food business is any...

"What do you think playground bullies grow up to be?" "Right-wing Republicans."

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich answers a question. Actually, when I decided I was going to blog this little interview, I planned to ...