• Jimmy Carter still delivers. It's hard to imagine Bush being able to pull this off. Ever.
• A visit to execution chambers in Japan.
• If you feed a chicken bad feed you get bad eggs. Who knew?

[This post comes from Anna Hanks, who'll soon be joining the Austinist staff!] Oh how we love our brooding bad-boys, full of emotional conflicts and divided loyalties. From James Dean to Marlon Brando, we just adore our theatrical time-bombs ticking down to an eventual emotional explosion. Black outfits only accentuate their outlaw charms. Biblical bad-boy Judas Iscariot — beautifully and brilliantly portrayed by John Pointer in Zachary Scott Theatre Center’s new bilingual production of Jesus... more ›

• Not even your Nalgene bottle can save you now.
• Elton John could experiment and make a rap album. We're confident he's got the bling part down.
• We must ask ourselves, "What does Miller know about brewing beer?" Especially craft beers.
• Hey ladies, are you farting a lot lately? Maybe you should take a pregnancy test...or stop driving thru the Taco Cabana.
• We like to think of re-gifting as our way of helping to save the planet and some cash.