No one much likes it when something—an empty cab, an out-of-service subway train, summer—goes by without stopping. It’s like a tiny taste of death. [The New Yorker]

The End of Gay Culture by Andrew Sullivan.

The Harriet And George Letters: "Cool!" That's her opinion of him and it speaks volumes.

And, in the meantime, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to this.