"A paparazzo hoping to get a picture of Justin Bieber in his Ferrari after the vehicle was pulled over by police in Los Angeles got struck and killed by an SUV instead."

"And as it turned out, the 18-year-old singer wasn't even in the sports car." This seems to be an occasion for wheeling out th...

Seen on the internet.

Grabbed this morning from a major news website : I just wanted you to know what's out there. I'm not saying be afraid, be very afrai...

"A goat? In this restaurant? Eating pizza? No!"

Well... yeah .

"[T]he police seemed oddly uninterested in the gang graffiti in the area, but were obsessed with the goats."

Said Ed Butler, "who runs a used-record store that was once an art gallery." Others said the big white planters were an open invit...

Keeping track of digits.

This picture — over at Sartorialist — of a young woman reading a book in an outdoor café reminds me of something that happened yesterday. S...

"Be amazing."

Suggested by YouTube after watching this... Which was suggested by Metafilter and really is similar amazingness... of the goatish kind.

County Fair: the video.

"Goat stuck on ledge on Llandudno's Great Orme."

Just the latest random story that has come up as a Google Alert on the name "John Roberts."

"The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere."

Roy Edroso puts a lot of work into this thing , and it would have hurt my feelings if he'd left me out. So don't cry for me. And, ch...

Blogging the conventions.

I see the Democratic Party is about to accept applications to bloggers to cover their convention (in Denver next summer): The move gives bl...

"Thank God the Goats Don't Have E-mail."

Mickey Kaus responds to the rumor.

Bible verses the candidates didn't cite.

Last night at the big debate, Tim Russert asked each of the Democratic candidates to recite their favorite Bible verse. They all made a stab...

"They said to me: 'We get a pig? Great'... So I explained the exhibition. They said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, but give me the pig. We’re poor."

Another art project for you to rail against: A Danish artist has stirred up controversy by giving Ugandan villagers free goats, sheep and pi...

Now, I understand why I speed.

Insufficient goats.

"When I travel I tell hotels up front that 'Alexander Dog Cohen' is coming and he is my emotional-needs dog."

This is not a humor piece: The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act states that anyone depending on an animal to function should be allowed ...

A little Friday goat-blogging.

Aw. From a roadside market in Wisconsin, near Spring Green.

Hitchens on the Christian right.

Christopher Hitchens digs up a kickass Barry Goldwater quote: The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using the...

Hawaiian Cheney-love!

My cool Hawaii contact, "Yoshio," has this report on Cheney's visit (I've boldfaced details that especially struck me): I ...

Sunday morning with coffee and caramels.

The Sunday Times has been read, at least to the extent that I'm going to read it, and not counting the things I've set aside: the Bo...

Coffee conversation.

ME [Reading this ]: "Shakespeare didn't have coffee!" JOHN: "But Beethoven did. He cared so much about his coffee that he...