Iron Chef Idea: This article on slow cooking from Slate may be of interest to the various master chefs in training I know. I'll be more than happy to sample your efforts.

What's In a Name: As we know from Freakonomics, it is not necessarily the name. But an article on the new Supreme Court nominee analyzes what the fact that he is a "Jr" bodes. Moving beyond specifically John Roberts Jr, the article discusses more generally: "The pressures of being a Junior tend to drive offspring either to great success or to mental breakdown... Nowadays, naming your child after yourself is much likelier to be met with societal disapproval. The feeling is that to Junior a child is unacceptably narcissistic and patriarchal, the extreme example being the boxer/grilling tycoon George Foreman's naming of his sons George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, and George VI. In Germany, it is actually illegal to name your child after yourself."

How Not To Be Gay: More from Salon's series looking at Christian groups that cure gay people. Part 2 goes inside the therapy: "Christian counselor and licensed clinical social worker, is explaining to me what causes homosexuality. 'Take the young boy who is more sensitive, more delicate, who doesn't like rough-and-tumble, who is artistic,' he says. 'He can't hit the ball, fire the gun or shoot an arrow. There is a high correlation between poor eye-hand coordination and same-sex attraction.' "
Part 3 is on a female reverend who is preaching that homosexuality can be overcome, using herself as an example (she pretended to be a man so she could marry a woman before repenting her sins.) Warning: this series sounded so ridiculous I thought it would be funny, but it mainly made me sad.