Today is the last day of Movember. That's right, Movember. Don't look for it on your caledar, mofo, unless you belong to some weird pagan sect that can't spell. No, Movember is so named because it's a MOVEment, about MOustaches. If you've noticed your gentlemen friends sprouting wantonly on their upper lips, well, that may be why. Here, we'll let Thrillist explain:

By now you most likely know the essence of Movember: that magical month in which folks all over the world grow moustaches for charity, be they jaunty, distinguished, menacing, filthy, magnificent, wispy, or "other". raise some sweet cash for prostate and testicular cancer research.

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Lights! Camera! SCOTUS! All eyes this week are turned toward the confirmation hearing of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court and the person who has added "Wise Latina" to our lexicon. Legal eagles from around the land have flocked to the nation's capital to breathlessly cover these hearings, or at least stream them live on C-SPAN so that various Senators can put on their best camera-ready outfits (smashing blazer, Kristen Gillibrand!) and invoke those twin American traditions - case law and baseball  - in sonorous, stentorian voices and, in the case of Chuck Schumer, voices that sound like my former rabbi. (more...)