Today's articles

• An Esquire writer impersonates his gorgeous 28-year-old babysitter on an online-dating site, Cyrano-style. Sweet, funny, and enjoyable. Life from the other side of the computer screen from freaks, geeks and creeps...an insightful view into what it's like to be a beautiful woman.
  
• Yeah, we know everything and everyone is going to die. But 50% of species on earth? Doesn't that seem a little high? This article in Mother Jones, if everything in it is accurate, scares the living shit out of me. Because if anything, 50% seems low. Reminds me of this essay by David Quammen a number of years ago. Is our planet really becoming a planet of weeds? And are we one of them? What is it Carlin says? "The planet is fine, the people are screwed."
• Almost as an addendum to the Josh Bell experiment a while back, Washington is having real auditions for Metro entertainment.
• I really had to pee! Tommy Thompson continues to make his case for being leader of the free world. He's more unbelievable than Tancredo... OK, not quite, but close.
• Why has everyone kind of decided that Gonzales has somehow saved his own skin? This kind of story drives me nuts. If Bush won't fire him and he won't resign, we need to impeach this guy. "Deflection"? Please. Only if deflection means refusing to answer/remember ANYTHING. This is the guy that said, "I think I may be aware of that." He's a schmuck. Either he actively tried to put Bushie loyalists in U.S. Attorney positions, or he's so incompetent that he doesn't know what happened, what got approved, who on his staff did what, and which lawyers approved what for him to say about things about which he knew nothing. This is the guy running the federal justice system? Geez. Get this guy out of office right now.
• Cubs have dropped two in Philly. This is gonna be a long stretch. Shea doesn't look promising.
• 9/11 begins to creep into our normal artistic worldview. Don DeLillo's 9/11 book, Falling Man, is right around the corner. I wonder how 9/11 will look in the rearview mirror ten years on.
  
• This guy catches sunglasses with his face. The video's good, but it's the funk soundtrack that makes the YouTube. Pimptastic.