Lou Perez is Luis Amate Perez

1. “not the white man’s bitch”

2. Sol Stern on “The Nakba Obsession”

3. Christopher Hitchens’s “Topic of Cancer” + his interview with Anderson Cooper

4. Lookwell! (a TV pilot created by Robert Smigel and Conan O’Brien)

1.”U.S. Defense Spending Subsidizes European Free-Riding Welfare States” by Ted Galen Carpenter and Marian L. Tupy

2. John McWhorter on Jesse Jackson

3. Dave Kim’s “Walking the Rockaways” in The Brooklyn Rail

4. Michael Shermer writes about dining and drinking with Christopher Hitchens

1. The government is still prosecuting people for obscenity?*

2. Reason‘s interview with Constance Penley:

(And you should read David Foster Wallace’s piece, “Big Red Son,” in Consider the Lobster. He writes a little bit about John “Buttman” Stagliano.)

* An update on the trial

3. Note to self: when in Africa do not shoot up the blood of heroin-users

4. Radley Balko on “the involuntary manslaughter verdict for Oscar Grant’s killer [, Johannes Mehserle]”

5. “Study Confirms Unconscious Linking of Blacks with Apes“—but what about my racist uncle’s conscious linking of Blacks with apes?

6. Chimp Mouth-rapes Frog (via Gregor)

7. Fanhouse’s Ariel Helwani’s two-part interview with Joe Rogan:

1. Will Wilkinson & Jonah Goldberg on bloggingheads.tv

2. Breastfeeding…at 8.

3. William Saletan on “The depravity of Major League Eating.”

4. Sophia Lear’s review of “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” by James Shapiro

5. “Call the police! Someone is opening a new business in Chicago!“ By Beth Milnikel, Institute for Justice

1.Vanity Fair interview with Penn Jillette

2. The Horror on Second Avenue

3. William Saletan asks “If it’s OK to reject blood from gay men, what about blacks?“

4. Rapists, beware, when cruising South Africa

1. “Exile in Dogpatch: The curious neglect of cartoonist Al Capp” by Stefan Kanfer in City Journal

You may remember Al Capp from his confrontation with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Lennon and Ono are the ones in the bed:

And if you’re wondering what’s up with Capp’s limp, well:

He enjoyed a typical New England boyhood until the age of nine. In autumn 1918, he sneaked aboard an ice truck, jumped off—and fell into the path of an oncoming trolley car. His left leg was severed in mid-thigh.

2. “Children Carry Guns for a U.S. Ally, Somalia”

3. Rudyard Kipling on meeting Mark Twain and something about Twain’s vibrator (Thanks, Shay, for the vibrator link)

4. “Candidate May Have Lied About Heroic Death In Vietnam”

5. William Saletan’s eight-parter on memory and Elizabeth Loftus

6. From Vice, “Bring Back Animal Trials“

1. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert go at it over Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

2. “Chosen, but Not Special” by Michael Chabon and “Israel and Turkey: It’s Complicated” by Christopher Hitchens

3. “Is It Interesting to Criticize the Civil Rights Act? Down to Cases with Rand Paul and John Stossel” by John McWhorter

4. “Recently, the Saudis have issued a fatwa that forces women who come into contact with unrelated men on a regular basis to breastfeed them so that they can be considered ‘relatives’ and not potential lovers.” I know. What the burqa fuck!

5. David Boaz discusses libertarianism on NPR’s Radio West w/ Doug Fabrizio

6. John Waters on The Leonard Lopate Show

1. “Gentrification and Its Discontents” by Benjamin Schwarz in The Atlantic

2. E.J. Dionne Jr. on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

3. Your first warning: it’s called “Bushmeat”

Primate parts smuggled inside cases of fish. Suitcases stuffed with dried duiker antelope that’s later sold door to door. Smoked cane rat strapped under a smuggler’s clothes. These are the hallmarks of the unregulated, underground bushmeat trade in America.

Isn’t it normally the case that smugglers come about as a response to regulation (or perhaps in this case, the illegality of the items in question)? I’m thinking about the illegal drug trade, the legal drug trade and how it relates to black markets, prostitution, etc.

(I tried to contact Jennifer H. Cunningham, the author of the article, to ask her this question, but I couldn’t find her contact info, and I had no idea how to “Login and Post” on The Grio.)

4. Will porn help move 3-D TVs?

5. The stories of Steven Millhauser. Some are available for free online, like “Cat ‘N’ Mouse.” Some require a subscription, like “The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman,” “The Next Thing,” and “Mermaid Fever.”

I’m two stories into Millhauser’s collection Dangerous Laughter, which includes “Cat…” and “The Disappearance…” and I’m loving every sentence. Rock!

1. bloggingheads.tv “Meet a Tea Partier”

2. “Big Love Soaking the State” by Michael Scott Moore in Miller-McCune

3. “Skinny Business”: Brilliant improv from UCB’s Lennon Parham and Zack Woods

4. From The Onion: “Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming”

5. Radley Balko’s “Lessons from the Death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones”

6. “President Obama’s War on His Own ‘Youthful Irresponsibility’” by Gene Healy

7. Brandon Arnold on a new challenge to direct-to-consumer wine shipping