Blowhard, Esq. writes:

• Are L.A. restaurants better than NYC ones? I’ve been to two of the places mentioned in the article, Baco Mercat and animal, and would highly recommend both. Sir Barken wrote about animal here.
• Not The Onion: North Korea edition.
• What Would Orwell Think? Speaking of Orwell, some mischievous Dutch artists recently celebrated his birthday.
• “I don’t think the Fourth Amendment would make it out of committee at this point.” — Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation, via John Perry Barlow on Twitter.
• A defense of evolutionary psychology.
• Exploding actresses. Misogynist. (Also, exploding Disney princesses.)
  
• Face Mashups