The front page of Slate today features The Economics of Spanking and The Many Varieties of Sodomy. Shortly below that is the headline for this week's diary feature - "We live in a pornocracy—everything has to be on a screen to be truly experienced."

Is there something going on at Slate that I don't know about? Such silliness amuses me when I've got exam-head.*

* You know, that feeling one gets after an exam that one's brain has been switched off for the rest of the day. You just know that you're not going to get anything out of it for the rest of the day.