1. How to avoid having a frustrated dog.
2. Seems to me this fellow should get a reward for thinking for himself rather than being arrested.
3. Noam Scheiber at the New Republic has an interesting profile of Zeke Emanuel at OMB.
4. An interesting, and at times moving, portrayal of Detroit's black middle class, from the NYT.
5. Top ten fetishes (okay for work).
Various hat tips.