I'm off to quickly have my fill of the northwestern Wyoming scenery.

I'll return -- unless I'm terribly unlucky -- with pictures. Meanwhile, you can use this post to talk about whatever comes up today.

"You're dealing with somebody who agrees to your rules."

Says Robert Wright, explaining why male homosexuality expresses male sexuality more purely than does male heterosexuality. Watch the whole ...

48°.

That's the temperature here. Strange! It's supposed to go down to 33° tonight. It's raining now. Can it snow in August? Meanwhil...

Things about hotels.

Douglas Coupland is doing a TimesSelect column this month. ( Link for subscribers .) Today he's got a list of 7 things he hates about ho...

Whale song.

Visualized.

"This is freedom for us... The tyrant is gone! We can see our country free at last!"

Fidel Castro isn't dead yet -- as far as I can tell -- but the exiles are already celebrating : In South Florida, which with Castro'...

"The 9/11 commission has its conspiracy theory, and we have ours."

More Kevin Barrett blather , in today's NYT. More from me over on Instapundit, which you can comment on here.