Off-Topic: Mary Ann Caught Smokin' Dope

Well, not actually caught smokin' dope -- but TV's Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, was nailed by the Teton County, Idaho, sheriff's department with a couple of roaches and "two small cases used to store marijuana." According to the Yahoo article, "[s]he was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving." I don't know why I get such a kick out of a 69-year-old TV star getting busted for doobage, but I will say that I thought Mary Ann was way hotter than Ginger when I was a baked teenager watching those old reruns.

Off-Topic: That Crazy Freakonomics Guy Looks at Chicago Prostitution

Via Jason Kottke, these days Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame has made a prelim available of an analysis (with Sudhir Venkatesh) of Chicago street prostitution. There are blog posts by Tyler Cowen, Matt Yglesias, Radley Balko and Kerry Howley commenting on the draft paper.

Off-Topic: Chocolate Chip Cookies WITH BACON

A friend told me about these at a dinner party over the weekend. Incredulous at the barefaced audacity of combining chocolate chips and bacon, I literally shuddered. However, he followed up with a recipe, and this comment: "Oh, yes. They're real, and they're spectacular."

The pictures on the blog are essentially the definition of food porn, and the comments are pretty uniformly positive on this, so if you think you won't like them: Try them! Try them! And you may! Try them and you may, I say!