Life imitates Viz: Those who remember alleged artist Spencer Tunick's mass nude photo shoot in Barcelona will have a good laugh at this one, especially since rude British comic Viz has already come out with a Sid the Sexist episode spoofing it.

Here's Christopher Hitchens in the Wall Street Journal on Iraq and Al Qaeda. And this is Fred Barnes on why Bush should shake up his Cabinet.

A&L Daily links to this excellent piece from New York magazine on September 11 conspiracy wackjobs. I hate conspiracy theories. Here's Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe and Ken Kesey. I love history-literature pieces. And here's a review from the Weekly Standard of two books on suburban sprawl; the thing we have to remember is that both Americans and Europeans have voted with their feet in favor of living in the suburbs.

Here's Dennis Prager in Front Page on the European welfare state.

You'll want to read this article on the Western Sahara from Slate. This is one of the very rare mentions in the US press of this particular bit of oppression. And here is a piece by Fred Kaplan on ways the Bush Administration could have made better decisions in Iraq.

Here's a funny one from Urban Legends Reference Pages on silly questions supposedly received by tourist bureaus.

This is a depressing piece by Mark Steyn in National Review. I think he might be about to go wobbly on us.

Here's Sports Illustrated's World Cup preview for Brazil, which might be of interest to you soccer fans. I personally cannot believe that either Ronaldo or Roberto Carlos will start for Brazil. I wouldn't have either one on my team, period. Both are playing very poorly this season, Roberto Carlos is old, and Ronaldo is always injured and overweight. He has also developed a very bad attitude.