Links to while away your empty hours today, mostly cribbed from Arts & Letters Daily:
– Chess hotties. Move over, Polgar sisters!
– Yep, crop circles are fake.
– A nice critique of Putnam’s Bowling Alone.
– Calvin Trillin on wine snobs.
– Umberto Eco on the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
– Ron Rosenbaum on journalism and pastries.
– How to write well about sex.