GENTLEMEN: just because you are bachelors living alone does not mean that you have bachelor pads.

Pair this with the piece in the latest New Yorker, "The Gils Next Door", especially the part quoted by Jello:

This whole "bachelor" world, with the brandy snifters and the attractive guest arriving for the night: did it ever exist?

Yes, as a fantasy. Now, however, it is the property of homosexuals.

Today, if you try to present yourself as a suave middle-aged bachelor, people will assume you're gay.

The Bachelor Pad Still Lives

A gunman fatally shot six people at a private house party Saturday morning before committing suicide in the worst mass murder in this city in more than two decades, the Seattle police said.

The gunman had, like others at the party, attended a "rave" concert in the neighborhood and been invited back to the small two-story house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

7 Dead in Shooting at Seattle House Party

Raves are back.

This was no rock club. This was someone's home.

The loft, shared by several art school graduates in a desolate part of Bushwick, is transformed every other month into an underground club, the High Five.

"I've always been pretty obsessed with underground music," said Peter Buxton, 24, one of the roommates. "In the back of my head I was thinking it would be cool to do shows. And as soon we spotted this loft, we thought it would be a crime not to do something."

Dark 2BR Loft? That's Code for a Club

A turbaned Sikh hostage who has been released complains about always being detained at security checkpoints these days, and the detective played by Mr. Washington says, "Bet you can get a cab, though."

Play It Again, Spike. It's Worth It.

"People are far more interested in the price of petrol at their local petrol station than they are in probably what's happening in Sudan," Mr. Parsons said. "That's just a fact. But there is a hunger for international news. If you do it through human interest, people will always relate."

Translation: Is the Whole World Watching?

His resignation seems to me, in any case, a fairly notable event, as these things go, and that is because, among the neoconservative intellectuals, Fukuyama has surely been the most imaginative, the most playful in his thinking and the most ambitious. Then again, something about his departure may express a larger mood among the political intellectuals just now, not only on the right. For in the zones of liberalism and the left, as well, any number of people have likewise stood up in these post-9/11 times to accuse their oldest comrades of letting down the cause, and doors have slammed, and The Nation magazine has renamed itself The Weekly Purge.

Nowadays, if you are any kind of political thinker at all, and you haven't issued a sweeping denunciation of your dearest friends, or haven't been hanged by them from a lamppost -- why, the spirit of the age has somehow passed you by.

'America at the Crossroads,' by Francis Fukuyama

This is a short life story about the CEO at Craigslist.

About a year and a half into medical school I started having doubts.

I backed into computers as a way to make a living.

It was a religious experience being shown the Web for the first time.

Not Easily Classified

there is a decision pending within the bowels of the federal government that may be the single most incomprehensibly wrongheaded decision of the century. It's small when compared with Iraq, but it's still maddening. It involves allowing passengers to talk on their cellphones while they are in flight.

Cellphones in Flight? This Means War!

"At most companies, especially technology companies, the most brilliant insights tend to come from people other than senior management. So we created a marketplace to harvest collective genius."

Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but who has the most compelling "architecture of participation."

The next frontier is to tap the quiet genius that exists outside organizations.

"We are talking about the democratization of science."

"The problem is when experience gets in the way of innovation."

Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas

Are search engines making today's students dumber?

"Google's simplicity and impressive search prowess trick students into thinking they are good all-around searchers, and when they fail in library searches, they are ashamed as well as confused."

Searching for Dummies