Quotes of the day

The case didn't crack like a nut between the steel-plated thighs of a Hillary Nutcracker, but still – by now it's pretty well accepted that those of us whining like so many nagging housewives were documenting something real. … In the meantime, it's hard not to wonder if this column is a preview of what we can expect from Parker and Spitzer's new CNN show…lord knows the world is dying to discover whether Eliot Spitzer thinks Obama is man enough. … At some point it will be easier to make a list of the things and people Obama hasn't been compared to in the mediasphere's continuing effort to pinpoint exactly who Obama is than it will be to comprise a list of the actual comparisons…

The ultimate female aphrodisiac: Armpit sweat from nursing mothers?

If the key compounds in the sweat, breast milk and baby's saliva could be identified and bottled, they could be turned into a powerful aphrodisiac for women, the study added. … By the end of the study, those given the sweat-soaked pads found their desire for their partner had risen by around 42 per cent, while those who were single had more sexual daydreams than usual... … Unless you've got a friend who's just had a baby, your options are pretty much limited to hanging out at the gym and wiping down the machines after a new mom has used them…

Video: The most Christiany candidate of them all

Or, per the latest turn of events, does that distinction belong to Mitt? … A surprisingly amusing turn here from the Red State Update boys, made all the more surprising by the fact that for once it's the chubby one without the beard who carries most of the comic load. … Look at it this way: it's either this or posts about robots or beta males…

Video: Kevin Federline’s stupid Super Bowl commercial

I take it he'll be joining me in celebrating the "Day of Purity" this year? … It's nice that he could cash in one last time on his way back to the gutter, though. … A man who rightfully should have been a fry cook but somehow ended up having sex with Britney Spears parlays his celebrity into a Super Bowl ad in which he plays a fry cook imagining what it would be like to be the kind of celebrity whom Britney Spears would, presumably, have sex with. Meta…

Video: Revenge of the Nerds?

That's even more true of the Apollo 13 crew, who had every reason and plenty of time to "freak out" but maintained their discipline and survived an in-flight disaster that probably should have killed them. … The catalyst to this video, the suggestion that we need Alan Alda types (as a pop-culture archetype, not Alda himself) rather than "right stuff" astronauts for deep-space exploration, is ridiculous on its face. … Jimmy Stewart ends up with a brilliant political career after supposedly overcoming his pacifism and shooting the town psycho (a great performance by Lee Marvin), but the truth is that it took John Wayne to take out Liberty Valance, not the pacifist…