Arts and Letters Daily (link) is a venerable and no-doubt venerated listing of journalism, arts, editorials essays, opinions and stuff Phil Dutton really likes. It’s unapologetically thoughty, academic and high brow (in a good way). The Onion, is, of course, America’s Finest News Source.

Arts and Letters Daily just linked to The Onion’s article about social commentator Christopher Hitchens being hauled away from his trailer park after getting in a domestic with his common-law wife. I just think this moment of social and literary cross over deserves some kind of recognition.

Police were initially summoned when neighbors reported hearing shouting and a loud crash, followed by a rambling polemic on Kissinger’s alleged covert approval of Indonesia’s illegal invasion of East Timor in 1975.”
— From the Onion article.

Maybe they were excited by Apple’s Hot News linking to Crazy Apple Rumors Site a couple of weeks ago.

This seems like a good time to point out that my current favourite CARS installment is Schiller Defeats Army Of Robots from a few weeks ago.