They Shoot Penguins, Don’t They?: A Larry King Not Live Tuesday Open Thread

Hello, friends, Larry King here.  Things are heating up across the world of sporting, and I couldn't be happier if they also managed to preserve my penis in this cryogenic storage pod.  Baseball is finally starting to cook, playoff hockey continues to surprise and delight with ever-more-gruesome penalties, and basketball

In Defense of Intelligemence: A Polemical Discourse on Self-Mediocritization (and Tuesday Open Thread)

Hi kids.  I apologize for the even-more-aggressive-than-usual tone of tonight's Open Thread, but I have Grievances. The readers, commenters and authors (be all of them!) of this site are a weird lot, with interests ranging from football to cooking, obscure history to tawdry reality shows, alcohol to other, stronger types of