Wednesday Links

Why am I so lazy on Wednesdays? Don’t ask questions, just click.

Hot Off The Blogosphere:

This hilarious blog post gives you the juicy/frightening details about a new over the counter weight loss drug. Disturbing, grotesque material covered in a really, really funny way.

Have you been staying up nights since the series finale of The Sopranos? Feeling a little empty, unfulfilled? Humming Journey all the time and being unable to concentrate at work because you’re unsure of Tony and Meadow’s ultimate fate? If so, get a life. But also, watch this great alternate ending. Best of all, the meaning of the yello cat is finally made clear…

Also, there is a really interesting piece in the Readings section of this month’s Harpers. “Variations on a Mirage,” by Edward Luttwak of CSIS, has been stuck in my head for several days. I’ll be writing more about it later but maybe you should read it to and then we can have a really engaging and intellectual discussion via comment thread, and it would be so cool. Anyway, in addition to having a thoughtful and unusual take on the situation(s) in the Middle East (Iran in particular), the piece has tons of great funny-but-serious lines, like,
“There are awed descriptions of the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard, inevitably described as “elite,” who do ineed strut around as if they have won many a war but who have actually fought only one — against Iraq, which they lost.” I like it when policy wonks are snarky.

And, saving the best for last, I introduce to you Bitter Laughter, the blog of one of my favorite pals, Timo. Timo is very smart and funny but watch out, because he is also a big literature nerd and is likely to befuddle you with allusions to Ulysses and/or Finnegan’s Wake at inappropriate times. Consider yourself warned.