Washington Post reporter Ben Terris, who on Sunday wrote about Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock’s Downton Abbey-themed office, published a few more photographs of Schock’s inner sanctum after the article went up. They are quite something.

Looking for a reason to join al Qaeda? How about a "3,000-foot indoor dog park/canine club" offering "holistic mud masks and facials"? New York City: 38,000 homeless people and a goddamn dog night club. [NYP; image via]

It's hard for the rich to find good, expensive things to spend their money on these days without causing a populist uproar. So a $28 million chair is, like, perfect!

"There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century," Sherman McCoy thinks in Bonfire of the Vanities, eulogizing Manhattan from the Triborough Bridge. That was quoted in yesterday's kinda pointless Times piece about the 20th anniversary of the Tom Wolfe novel and how New York is no longer that fractured, dangerous city. But! Maybe New York is actually the 20th Century Paris of the 21st Century! Look at the evidence!

Last Thursday, the Times' Styles section told us that fashion was taking its cues from the eighties. It also told us that fashion was taking its cues from the sixties. Which is it? As of today, it's apparently the sixties. Fine with us, so long as it never ever ever goes to the seventies. Because that decade was a fashion partial-birth abortion.