• Pick up a libertarian at the America's Future Foundation happy hour. [AFF]

• Ask if that's a pubic hair on your date's Coke. Peaches w/ Young Heart Attack. [9:30 Club]

• Consider the ways in which democracy can go wrong. Fareed Zakaria. [Politics and Prose]

• Not going to the WHCD? Eat all the Goddamn garlic you want. [Food Network]

• Dodge Jay Leno's chin. [Olsson's]