now that i'm trying to avoid the nytimes, i'm having some trouble finding reasonable sites. current headlines on slate:

What's the Deal with Moms Who Won't Wash Their Hair?

Trick-Shot Doc: You Won't' Believe what This Guy Can Do With a Tongue Depressor

Ode to a Composting Toilet

Prince William's College of Love: The Bizarre Sex Toy Collection at St. Andrews University, Where He and Kate Middleton Met

Are Those Texas Wildfires Really Setting Horses on Fire?

David Foster Wallace's Stunning Critique of Boredom

that sex toy thing is probably the most gratuitous headline ever written, like 'insane! the schizo dude located 23 miles south/southwest of kate middleton's dress designer.' who'd have thought that boredom required a critique? much less an interminable critique by our greatest postmodern intellect and transcendent genius novelist? i am literally stunned, so much so that i'm tempted to write a critique of stunnedness. if david foster wallace hadn't hanged himself, i'd hang him, if only to relieve the meta-tedium.