Pointers

• I show not the picture. I but run the headline link -- Giant Inflatable Vagina Dentata, Tentacles Writhing -- and move along. [Update: Not enough for commenter Ghagdad who notes, "It's great to live in a country where a giant vagina dentata with tentacles writhing can run for president."]
• Local bars, not liquor stores, associated with heavy drinking Lack of barstools in parking lot probably has something to do with it.
• University of Toronto finds humans and chimps differ at level of gene splicing ... as well as the ability to ride small tricycles in their later years.
• "If you ever had a set of Micronauts – toy robots with removable body parts – you probably had fun swapping their heads..." Or you could try it with a set of Politibots during the forthcoming Presidential debates.
• Freakonomics strains at a gnat and squeezes off early with today's dumbest blog question: How is Abstinence-Only Sex Education Like South Africas Driving Exam? Tune in tomorrow for, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
• Revolting blogger of the day confesses: When I was in college if I didn't like the person sitting in the desk in front of me I'd wear my nasty shoes and slide my feet under their seat.
• Foreplay of the day @ The Female Condom: "Open the package carefully. Choose a position that is comfortable for insertion - squat, raise one leg, sit or lie down. Make sure the condom is lubricated enough."
• Woman least likely to use above foreplay method? The new Bond girl. Mexican telenovela star Mayrin Villanueva has apparently landed the role of the Bond girl in the upcoming Bond 22....

  
  

• Those who wish to research this item more deeply can start HERE. You can thank me when you get back.
  
• Back? Good. Now you can review how Shrinkwrapped detects A disturbance in the force: "It appears that a similar intolerance of dissent is brewing on the Conservative side of the Blogosphere and this is troubling." Bad bloggers! No doughnuts.
  
• Ninme wants new airfare standards: "Hell they should charge people by the ounce. Like the mail does. I'd show up at the airport with my swimsuit." So sez Ms. Slimjim.
  
• Publishers vie to lose millions. "A bidding war has erupted for the rights to Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-Mass.) autobiography, which could end up well into the mid-seven figure range." Titles with the word "Bridge" in them now being accepted.
  
• By their rhetoric ye shall know them: neoneocon looks at the Democrats' compulsions for revenge.
  
• Elsewhere the soppy Jane Hamsher sez :Writers' Strike Why You Should Care. Sorry, Jane, but as with so many other things you care passionately, deeply, and sincerely about, we just DGAS.