Iced Borscht

AMOROUS EPHEMERA

• London Andrews covered in blue cupcake cream

AURAL LIFE

• Brian May interview in the Guardian

BIG ATHLETICA

• My fantasy football impulses are out of control this year. As usual, I’m overseeing my own league, but I’ve also joined one run by some swell fellows at the conservative blog, Real Debate Wisconsin, and still another run by anti-drug war journalist par excellence, Radley Balko. And…there’s still plenty of spots available in my NFL pick ‘em league, which entails scant knowledge of football. It’s free and easy.

• The audacity of tennis fans – clearly a rogue bunch of miscreant dirtbags and retired insurance actuaries.

BACK HOME ON THE FARM

• Portrait of a Wisconsin cheesemaker

BIG HYGIENE & WELLNESS

• Sick Lit, done right

DEEP-FRIED DYSTOPIA

• 6 global warming skeptics who did a 180

• Fred Siegel: “Like the Tory Radicals, today’s liberal gentry see the untamed middle classes as the true enemy…“

• Is that a tumor in your pants, or are you just overcome by the excitement of martyrdom?

• The unmitigated awfulness of Obamacare has only just begun

• Vlad Putin has a way with words. Of peaceful protesters, he recently said “…you will be beaten on your skull with a truncheon. And that’s that.”

ESOTERIC SENTIENCE

• Frank Wilson weighs in on Philadelphia’s silly blogger licensing fee

• The black heart of Facebook’s summer lies

LOCAL

• Insane, emaciated Oregon do-gooder sprays fat piles of rectitude on Missouri college

WHAT MY FRIENDS, ACQUAINTENCES, ALLIES and VIRTUAL PEEPS ARE DOING

• Pal Nick is campaigning to change Aaron Rodgers’ nickname from “A-Rod” (or “A-Rodge”) to “Ace.“

ACE RODGERS