Before Weapons of Mass Destruction, American soliders faced a different type of war-time casualty: venereal disease. While we remember the posters of Uncle Sam declaring "I Want You to Join the U.S. Army", the Army was also concerned that their potential recruits were clean.
Hilton Tweeted this pic with Richardson "on set of my Vogue cover shoot! Love him!" She didn't mean American Vogue; Anna Wintour may inexplicably love Blake Lively, but she's not dumb. Turns out Vogue Turkey's taking the trip to 2004.
The recession is making our hearts bleed as well as our pockets: an "international poll" finds that our love lives have taken a harder hit since the economic downturn than those of the (less materialistic?) other countries polled. [Reuters]
Candacy A. Taylor's Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress is a tribute to career servers; the author-photographer interviewed fifty-nine waitresses in forty-three cities across America. [New Yorker]
"Tell me where your grandmother came from and I can tell you how many kinds of pie you serve for Thanksgiving," wrote Clementine Paddleford.
