"I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names, and lunched with them in dark, crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee."

It means something that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "pig" instead of "pork." I think about how George Harrison sang abou...

"The Dirty Etymology of 9 Everyday Words."

"Oops, you just said: Pig’s vagina..."

"Court keeps alive inmate's quest for pork feast."

Headline at the National Law Journal makes the "quest" sound more absurd than it is. The prisoner, Derek Kramer, is an Odinist an...

Why would any meat-eater criticize someone for eating a roasted pig fetus?

Some people are shocked that Nigella Lawson said: "When I was in Spain, they aborted a pig for me and roasted the foetus. Soooo good.” ...

A plague of pigs!

Razor sharp tusks! Attacking humans! They only come out at night! "They eat everything... They’ll eat the understory in a forest and di...

County Fair: the video.

At the County Fair.

Dane County, Wisconsin, this afternoon: "After petting all the beasts, clean your hands before you feast": Pigs, sleeping like 2 ...

"The 5 Most Annoying Food/Drink Presentations."

Per Zagat: 1. Wine served in non-wine glasses... 2. Cold bread in a brown paper sack... 3. Drinks served in mason jars... 4. Dishes served o...

Protesters at the Capitol rally against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.

It was a constrained and organized media event, with the sign-holders arrayed on the steps around the "Forward!" statue and the sp...

Drudge finally shows interest in the Weiner.

Let's check out the display. Closeup: The links are: IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER... 'This Could Be The End For Him'... — the quote i...

Sean Hannity interviews Sarah Palin.

Video: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Excerpts. Commentary: 1. TBogg mocks Palin's speech. She does chatter through a lot of phrases that o...

"The Intent was to paint a Picture of Mrs. Palin in the Mind of the Audience as a Sow. Such a crude Jape..."

After my weekend jaunt to Hilton Head Island, I've got so many unread comments to review for spam and other delete-able things. I enjoy ...

"If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..."

"... comparing her to Islamic fundamentalists, Pontius Pilate and porn stars, and dismissing her as a dysfunctional brood mare who can...

"'It’s still a pig,' he said to loud applause," says Jeff Zeleny of the NYT, featuring Obama's defense of the Lipsticked Pig remark.

Here. But the thing is I know that the crowd laughed -- and Obama paused to encourage the crowd to laugh -- after he said "You can pu...