PUT THE BLAME ON HER: Reissued albums from the woman who sang while Gilda smoldered. [Edited to add that I got this from the same City Paper issue that included the dumb bread story. Credit where it's due.]

NONCONFORMIST: Lileks’ Bleat today (2/28/02–check the archives) is better than the uberblogged Screed. Read it.

THE GODFATHER, PART IV: The mob is still on the waterfront. Check out this article, “How to Run the Mob Out of Gotham,” from City Journal. And need I mention that “On the Waterfront” would be a great movie for a right-wing campus group’s movie night?

“To the men we have loved! Stinkers!” –Eve Arden, “Mildred Pierce”

GAUDI ONLINE: Even his storage shed is cool.

MORNING STAR: A moving account of the naming of Venus, a baby girl, in liberated Kabul.

READ THIS. I don’t know what else to say. Here’s the description of the essay: “My friend Tristin is the publicist at Lookout Records and the smartest person I know. One of her dearest and oldest friends was on American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on [...]

“I know what’s going on inside of you, Frank. You’re just like any other man, only more so.” –Pamela Britton to Edmond O’Brien, “D.O.A.”

VOLUNTEER SLAVERY: Christian anti-slavery groups have been getting scammed in Sudan, according to this Independent report. The anti-slavery groups “redeem”–buy–slaves, then free them and send them back to their villages. But the report is full of stories of villagers posing as slaves, and there’s lots of convincing evidence that the slave-redemption numbers don’t add up. [...]

CLICHES BITE BACK: The Libertarian Party’s answer to those Super Bowl “if you smoke pot, the terrorists will have won!” ads. (Link is PDF.)