The biggest question raised by Jennifer Senior's upsettingly entertaining interview with Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia in this week's New York magazine is the metaquestion: Why is Scalia running his mouth? What leads a sitting justice to keep building a public dossier of his crotchets and prejudices, rather than just delivering them from the bench, robed in the neutral authority of the law?

Jennifer Senior has landed a book deal from her recent New York magazine story on "Why parents hate parenting" (Spoiler: because kids suck). Could this be the start of an anti-parenting cultural backlash? Let's hope so! [GalleyCat]

Today at Gawker.TV, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell parody LeBron James' "Decision"," the Old Spice guy makes the GMA anchors swoon, Jennifer Love Hewitt loves her stripper pole, and Fox & Friends explore the Russian Hot Party.

Jennifer Senior wrote a massive cover piece on the Obama communications machine for this week's issue of New York that is, to put it mildly, a nauseatingly fawning tribute to the communications genius of our president and his advisers.