• Thursdays with Tina: "Yesterday, I crammed my maid into my new Whirlpool and dishwashed her for two hours."

• The drill was called "Gallant Fox III," which delights me because more interior decorators should get to make up drill names...

• Inside Chez Ashcroft: "The bedrooms gave off the type of warmth normally reserved for Marriott Courtyards, although without the feeling that something dirty might ever have occurred there."

• Bill O'Reilly: Wet, warm, and battling for American values at 65 MPH?

• The Pill turns 40 and is still looking great.

• Hip-hop soldiers release an album about their experience in Iraq.