Tuesday evening roundup

Here's an update on the sport Russia most excels at these days: beating the shit out of journalists.

For a journalist in Kyrgyzstan, Twitter to the rescue.

Sigh. Apparently I've been eating the wrong kind of wild rice.

I always hate wasting the rest of hotel soaps. Good for Hilton.

Men are delusional about their being funnier than women, but I still maintain that that study is flawed and not generalizable to the conclusions that the press is reporting.

The Onion on Berlusconi.

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Ran out of my usual pasta and had to made do with back-up pasta, and let me tell you, Trader Joe's whole wheat pasta doesn't hold a candle to Whole Foods' whole wheat pasta.