Like booze? Like dogs? Like doing things for charity?

(The raffle benefits Lucy's alma mater.)

Photo documentation of contraband seized by customs officials at Kennedy airport.

Spam email subject: "Your dog will sleep soundly with this foam bed."

My dog sleeps soundly laying on her back on a hardwood floor, just for the record.

Nate Silver discovers a reliable predictor for Congressional races - socioeconomic status. It's more interesting than it sounds.

Ten orange things less orange than the Jersey Shore premiere, brought to you by the Old Gray Lady.

I have never been more indifferent toward anything the media won't shut up about than Chelsea's wedding. Can't Lost have another finale or something instead? Or maybe Lebron can switch teams?

Scientists - as in, people who study evidence and make statements based on fact - have released another report demonstrating an incontrovertible link between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change.

What's the argument against this again? That there isn't 100% complete unanimity, so it must be wrong? Or that the scientists are in league with socialists who want to destroy business or something? What is it?

I'd love to see the Chamber of Commerce's graphs akin to those in the report.

IMPORTANT. I super-glued my thumb to my laptop. I recommend not hiring me to babysit.

Genius, perhaps revolutionary: fabric created by a 3D printer, built without seams.

I am in love with the Arado tiny house (#13). I think I'll try to sneak it into Central Park.

If you think the phrase "reflections on flag" makes sense, I have the book for you!

Says the woman who's organizing a dog-oriented protest against a mosque in Temecula:

"I want you to stress this -- I'm not prejudiced," Serafin told me. "I worked retail for nine years and I didn't even know my manager was gay until someone told me. And when I found out, I didn't care."

That's all the proof I need!

Someone else pointed this out to me, but it's interesting that the Bloomberg piece on the today's Astor activities declines to mention the prime mover of the nonsense - a woman who happens to be in their employ.

If you thought TweetDeck was a time-suck before: tweets are going to be updated in real-time. The video is scary.

Here's the nut graf from Judge Bartley's denial of the defense's motion in the Astor case.

The defendants aver, in the first affidavit of investigator Clemons, that they have offered an explanation - namely, that Ms. DeMarco refused to execute an affidavit out of fear of "the prospect of a media frenzy" such as had occurred in the wake of news coverage concerning the granting of the defendants application for bail pending appeal. Thus, it would appear that either Ms. DeMarco is placing her own prviacy concerns over her purported belief that a terrible injustice has occurred or, as this Court believes, that her verdict was in fact based on the evidence and the court's instructions, and she does not now wish to engage in perjury. This view is supported by the fact that after the Court's instructions to resume deliberations with "civility and respect" the jurors, including Ms. DeMarco, apparently did just that as no additional notes were sent out indicating that any juror was unable to continue deliberations or still felt in fear for their safety. Nor did Ms. DeMarco, herself an attorney, communicate to court personnel at any time that she still felt threatened.

Emphasis added, emphatically.

Revelation: Real Housewives of New Jersey is for people my age what Jersey Shore is for those ten years younger. Discuss.

On humid days, walking down 28th feels like being at Rochester's Highland Park Conservatory.

The judge in the Astor case threw out the defense's claims that a juror was intimidated.

Probably because it was completely untrue.

The Internet strongly recommends that you avoid Regal Pizza in Boston. Thanks, Internet!

Richard Lawson is the Andy Warhol of reality TV. Or maybe the Roy Lichtenstein. Either way: genius.

If the world stopped spinning, first, you'd go flying off into space. (Unless you're inside I guess.)

But then, the oceans would migrate to the poles, exposing land around the equator. New York City would still be on the coast - but the ocean would be to the north, not the east.

You think your mom is hot, which is kind of gross.

(MILF jokes would also have been accepted.)