Morning fun

A new website, Media Matters, will be devoted to examining right-wing media bias. A NYT story quotes the founder, conservative hitman-turned-liberal David Brock: "The right wing in this country has dominated the debate over liberal bias... My belief is they've moved the media itself to the right and therefore they've moved American politics to the right. I wanted to create an institution to combat what they're doing."

I blogged last week about the NY social-set book The Right Address. Today the London Evening Telegraph has a pice on an author of similar ilk and her book Bergdorf Blondes (the two books are sometimes mistaken for each other, at least by me). This interview, part puff and part hit, is particularly remarkable for use of the word froideur. I don't know if the writer just made it up or not, but it is, you might say, ab fab. (Courtesy Gawker).

To spare the feelings of any Muslim visitors, officials at the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela -- terminus of the famous pilgrimage route -- will remove a statue showing their patron saint "slicing the heads off Moorish invaders."

Fr. "John" blogged several memorial May Day links, including one to a site for some British "Christian Socialists." Their publications page is interesting, while the homepage is less so.

Finally, here's a piece about a home-made online reference guide to sex especially for phone-sex workers. Said to "revolutionize" the industry, which I'm actually kind of surprised still exists, what with the internet and all. (Courtesy Romenesko).