Matthew Yglesias has a lovely chart showing the change in public opinion towards women’s role in society.

Dawn Friedman, the godmother of all mommybloggers, has a piece on PJM on being a pro-choice adoptive parent.

Slow day at work? Watch 150 Monty Python sketches. (via Dooce)

Brooks is worrying about the growing racial segregation of music taste. He says never has alternative music been so white. Not. I don’t think remember a whole of lot of urban youth running out to buy REM’s Murmur album.