I'll take 8:1 on a Brazilian

How to bet on the next pope, from the new york times.

The Man Date, also from NYT -- oh, like you haven't gotten this in your inbox already.
It's priceless. This has never occurred to me before, but I can see my male friends testifying to it. A small excerpt:

Almost all men agree that beer and hard alcohol are acceptable man date beverages, but wine is risky. And sharing a bottle is out of the question. "If a guy wants to get a glass of wine, that's O.K.," said Rob Discher, 24, who moved to Washington from Dallas and has dinner regularly with his male roommate. "But there is something kind of odd about splitting a bottle of wine with a guy."