Man, is this a busy pre-vacation week! First up this morning, Morning Edition aired the episode I taped a while back about Real Housewives of Washington, DC, and I posted an interview I did with one of the stars. It's absolutely fascinating seeing the gap between how these women are cut and portrayed on screen, and what it's like to talk to them in person.
Then, yesterday at The Atlantic, I did some musing on the severity of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (I think it's hilarious that Larsson's got everyone reading this insanely anti-capitalist book), and wrote about the modernization of Scouting in the U.S. at Ta-Nehisi's spot.
And as a treat for those of you who made the Song of Fire and Ice discussion here so insanely awesome, there's a huge post about world-building up there and a great discussion going, with some regular commenters here popping up.