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According to the Los Angeles Times, chihuahuas are out and pugs are in for the tiny-dog-carrying set.

Those of you who were raising hundreds of chihuahuas in hydroponic tanks in your closets have just found yourselves at the top of the market; sorry about that. If you're lucky, you can unload the li'l barkers to clueless social climbers in the Inland Empire before they get the message.

Otherwise, it's chili night!

CitizenX just sent me a link to a book called "Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History". I'd probably like it; I enjoy that kind of boutique pop science book. They can be awfully precious, and the writer often believes that THIS ONE THING IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVERYTHING, but they're fun like candy and I do learn from them. It's like the enjoyable bits of college lectures.

Anyway I realized that there are about a hundred books out in the last decade with titles in the form: [FAMOUS PERSON]'s [NOUN] and they're almost all this kind of book. Some of them are just [PERSONAL NOUN]'s NOUN

Examples: Galileo's Daughter, Halley's Quest, Miss Leavitt's Stars, The Mapmaker's Wife, Humboldt's Cosmos, Kepler's Witch, Einstein's Heroes... Those are just from a quick look at Amazon's "History of Science" category.

Maybe we should make a matrix of Famous Dead People and Nouns and write all the ones that aren't done already. Dibs on "Kropotkin's Bicycle", here!

A cultural trend in my country follows a particular course, with few variations. A marginalized minority or subculture produces it. It propagates via pop culture, especially music and film. Teenagers adopt and adapt it. A major motion picture blesses the trend. Older people who idolize teenagers take it up. The rougher edges of the trend have been removed at this point and it is a marketable commodity. It is now an ordinary and acceptable part of daily social life.

At this point, if the activity has any physical expression at all, it finally and permanently becomes a method of exercise.

The New Porn Culture of suburban middle-class America is no exception.