More women than ever are the primary breadwinners for their families.

These dumpster pools are awesome.

I've been reading tons of obits on Frank McCourt. I wish I had gone to one of his book readings. Drat.

Cops arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for breaking into his own home. More from the Boston Globe.

Really excellent article by Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker on why Americans got so fat in the 1980s.