There are three and only three circumstances under which a man may wear a bracelet.

People are seeing irony where it doesn’t exist.

Megan McArdle is taking a break of unspecified length from blogging to “work on another project.” Said project, she hastens to add, is not a baby.

The New Yorker’s cover has Rick Santorum in a doghouse strapped atop Mitt Romney’s car.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

CBS Sports’ Mike Freeman takes a new look at New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s bestseller Home Team in light of the bounty scandal that broke yesterday.

Janelle Nanos investigates her relationship with her iPhone.

Barbara Boxer takes the Daily Show’s “The Vagina Ideologues” bit out of context and deconstructs it during the Senate’s Blunt amendment debate.

GM’s big gamble on the future, the Chevy Volt, isn’t yet paying off.

The conservative columnist argues Republicans should concentrate on winning back the Senate and stopping Obama through 2016.

Over the last decade-plus of war, the US Army has relaxed its promotion and retention standards for commissioned and non-commissioned officers. As we transition into peacetime, the pendulum is swinging the other direction.

This morning’s unexpected death of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative muckraker, has sadly if unsurprisingly brought out a wave of nasty commentary.

Billionaires have been free to donate as much money as they want to activist groups since the dawn of the Republic.

President Obama talks sports with Bill SImmons.

Davy Jones, the face of The Monkees, has died.

Romney eked out a win in the Michigan primary. He’s going to have a harder time there in November.

A discussion in the comments thread of my “Time Running Out For GOP?” post led me to a post from four-plus years ago by frequent commenter and erstwhile blogger* Michael Reynolds titled “Money, Bombs and Jesus.”

The Pentagon has released the name of the US Army National Guard major murdered in an Afghan ministry this weekend.

2012 may be the last chance for the current Republican Party to win the White House.

David Brooks points out that, despite the mythology of America as a land of rugged individuals and Europe as a socialist experiment gone wrong, the amount of social welfare spending is roughly the same.

Why should lying about having served in combat or been awarded a medal for valor should be legally different from lying about athletic prowess in high school, the number of sexual partners you’ve had, or the size of one’s sex organs?

The Associated Press has rolled out a slightly new logo for the first time since the Reagan Administration.

A pattern that never ends: Perceived insults lead to mayhem and murder.

The Republican debacle of 1964 offers some lessons for the current cycle.

France is moving into the 1970s, phasing out titles which distinguish between married and unmarried women.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

An odd meme’s developing that Mitt Romney’s campaign is in financial trouble.

Dick Lugar sold his Indiana home 35 years ago but still lists it as his official residence.

Rick Santorum is Michele Bachmann level crazy. Yet he’s arguably the Republican frontrunner right now.

Cal Thomas made a tasteless joke at Rachel Maddow’s expense. He describes the lesson in civility he learned.

Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s money guy, probably shouldn’t be his media guy.

The military promotion system does not reward top performers rapidly enough.

So, you thought the people running the Iowa Caucuses, who had to count something like seven votes and yet declared the wrong winner, had egg on their face. Well, their buddies in Maine have upped the ante.

Today’s the 20th anniversary of Wayne’s World

We can feel that we “know” athletes, entertainers, politicians, and others that we’ve followed, rooted for, or whatnot over a period of time and feel a genuine sense of loss when they’re gone.

Unlike TV, real life medical examiners take weeks, even months, to establish a cause of death.

The MLA is pushing to guarantee adjunct professors $40,000 a year.

While I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction with the degree that CPAC has embraced the worst elements of the conservative movement in recent years, it does appear that there is a line.