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One of the web’s most graceful prose stylists, intueri, is hosting Grand Rounds this week, and she’s coaxed the unwieldy mess of links into a clean set of pickup lines and smooth comments. Head over to her place and get your freak on. Yeeeah.

From an otherwise good Urban Institute report: The most vulnerable populations in New Orleans—the elderly, people with physical and mental disabilities, and single mothers out of the labor market—arguably were hit hardest by Katrina. You don’t say? Isn’t being hit hardest by massive disasters sort of intrinsic to categorization “most vulnerable?” You see this a […]

I think Scott (and Jacob Levy, who he quotes at length) gets a lot right here. The discussion over housework has a strange tendency to take the distribution of chores as the only mutable variable, while leaving the actual quantity alone. In fact, my hunch is that in an age of multiple wage earners, standards […]

Becks: Ah, so the famous Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition comes out this week. If I ever found out that a guy I was dating bought the SI swimsuit edition, I think I’d have to break up with him. Not for the typical feminist reasons that you might expect, but because it’s just so lame. You’re […]

I think Tyler Cowen’s future is in advising the lovelorn and ill-mannered. His attempt to assume Dear Prudence’s column for a day ended with a question over whether a cohabiting couple with a nicely appointed house could ask their wedding guests for money rather than registering for extraneous crap. No, obviously — how gauche! But […]

One thing to be clear on: Dick Cheney wasn’t hunting. He wasn’t doing what Ted Nugent does, or what Indians used to do. Cheney was killing things. Update: John Cole notes that the linked report is a couple years old. Whether or not this hunting trip was like that “hunting trip” I don’t know.

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Via Pam of Pandagon, here’s the first picture of Cheney’s shooting victim!