REAL POSTING will resume tomorrow. For now, here’s a sensible article about women’s sports that’s interesting even to “sports-negative” types like me. (In sixth grade, during the required “mile run” portion of Presidential Fitness Testing, I unleashed my inner adolescent jerk and walked the entire mile reading a copy of Keats’s “Hyperion.” Or maybe “Endymion.” Whichever, it’s not as if either one of them is a great masterpiece, but hey, I was in middle school.) Link via The Rat.

And here’s a post about (could I make this up?) Red China Panda Porn. I have to admit that I really dig the pandas–when The Rat was here in the fall, we got to see the guy panda soaking up a jacuzzi bath (or zoo equivalent) and looking just like the Japanese businessman in the “Mr. Sparkle” Simpsons episode. We also saw the pandas play-fighting. And it was really cool. But good grief, they are expensive! And freaky. And, of course, Communist. They should defect, that would rock.

And here’s an awesome, awesome picture.