Quote of the day

"Sweeney explained his fondness for the man hug."

I would share a man hug with Mike Sweeney (or any of the Phillies, for that matter) any day.

Must love pandas

Thousands enter panda keeper contest in China.

Sounds like a job for the News Team!

That's a pizzly!

I don't get how a picture of a grizzly bear fits with the headline Why "feminist" is a dirty word.

Sometimes, the NY Times is just baffling.

And is it just me, or does this particular bear look like the infamous pizzly/grolar bear? I apologize in advance for the photo in the link... I know, hunting bears just seems obscene, but the content of the story is quite fascinating.

Quote of the day

"We can see some nice cracked edges that do look very much like a bullet hole."

Nice is not an adjective one thinks of when describing a bullet hole, generally. Anthropologists are just so damn quirky, gotta love 'em!