Said to Tom Baker: "I’m such a big fan of your work that I’ve just named my baby son after you… but my wife can’t stand you!”

A frank interview.

Moroccan police harassing RFK's granddaughter.

A psycho mother writes.

Hilarious.

First person to swim from Scotland to Ireland (as far as we know).

A roundup of links about Lance Armstrong and doping.

That's one modestly-sized microwave for man...

Georgian politics: a US consultant writes.

A grim actuarial reflection.

The key moment.

Gaiman, Stephenson, and Armstrong: 'If you ever wondered what my face looks like when I'm going "This is really happening, and I am the luckiest man in the world," it looks a lot like it does in this photo.'

The best so far, with the great picture taken just after they left the Moon.

Another book about the Moon landings.

My review of a book about the Moon landings.

Review of biography of Neil Armstrong.

Romney/Ryan weakest GOP ticket since 1948 on foreign affairs. (My question is answered.)

Republicans and the Resolve Fairy.

Glorious!

The very few states where votes actually matter.

No boundary changes; so what changes are possible?

The title says it all.

"By choosing Ryan, who has little foreign experience and who despite, like most of the people on the planet, being more exciting than Romney, is hardly an inspiring figure or great orator, Romney did not help himself"

Tracking down a fake tweeter in the Dublin suburbs!

"A decade of rule by Saakashvili has left the country more divided, and its democracy more endangered, than at any time in its post-Soviet history."

Read down for the glossary: "HARI-PARTER. Committing a form of tekstual suicide by increasingly expanding the parts of an ongoing tale until they reach such size that the guts of the story split open and spill all over the ground (see Rowmbling). Painful and grisly."

With comments from prominent martial arts practitioner and ex-ambassador.

Extraordinary.

Old news, but fascinating.

...government getting too nervous to be subtle?