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Racism is hot. The media smells the blood in the water and is (finally) making some good cases about how anti-Obama sentiment is tied to racism. Some, not so good. Maureen Dowd pretty much called everyone opposed to Obama a racist. But race is a very small factor in what's going on. READ MORE

Given the apparently endless fascination so many of you have with the contextual ads that appear on the inside pages of this website, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy this gallery of Google's Worst Ads Ever. And if not, well, you can always hope there's some bizarre juxtaposition on the inside of this post.

Plants: our friends? Our enemies? Uncaring monsters who are only interested in screwing everything in sight? Oh wow definitely the latter. Wave Hill (a "public" garden, which means "only eight bucks!") is the pervertedest, sexiest, pollen-iest place in New York City (249th St., hello!). Up there, overlooking the Hudson, you can watch the foreign flora, from near and from really far, basically get on top of the other flora and hump it until it bleeds sap. All over. Actually very sexy and fun to be around! READ MORE

Don't miss Sophie Calle's show at Paula Cooper gallery. Oddly this has not much been written about here, even though this is the first time her enormous sweeping tribute to getting dumped has been shown in the U.S. Prepare to spend about an hour there, because the video interpretations of her breakup are particularly magical. (Yes, magical!)