Well, this one just smacks of implausibility — what “tall and handsome 6′3″ and work out daily” kind of guy do you know who would have to go on Craigslist looking for a party date? — but whatever, we’ll bite. He does not care if you are an 89-year-old skeletal space monster, as long as you look vaguely humanoid and want to go to an inaugural ball with this guy. He will buy you a dress, too! Oh but here is the HOOK: He’s got tickets to the Texas State Society’s Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball, which of course nobody wants to go to. Texas is dead to the rest of the nation. [DC Craigslist]

The Republican National Convention has brought truckloads of new visitors to the Twin Cities — and with every event getting canceled in honor of the poor black people who didn’t get killed in the hurricane yesterday, veritable dozens of GOP males were left in their swank hotel rooms with nothing to do. Let’s find out what happens when a bunch of closeted, discreet hairless dudes go looking for good clean fun on Craigslist … MORE »

Ok, why didn’t any of you tell us about this? Don’t read Australian papers? That’s no excuse — Maureen Dowd is soliciting personal ads; this is the sort of thing we need to be kept abreast of, people. MORE »