Tattoos can often symbolize bad decision making, but the Louisville basketball coach got his new ink because his team won the national championship.
The First Dad told the Today show Wednesday that he can stop the First Daughters from getting tattoos... by getting his own, and taking it viral. But if history has taught us anything, kids are always going to find a way to screw over their folks. Like so, perhaps.
People have tattoos. The New York Times has noticed! But a lot of people are still hiding their tattoos, even though they got them and they like them. This is because of the office.
Vladimir Franz has more face tattoos than Lil Wayne, but that hasn't hurt his poll numbers. The odd man out in the Czech presidential race has earned a sizable chunk of the vote by calling out ruling parties on corruption.
Yes, there's something absolutely poetic about Eric Hartsburg dropping his support of Romney because of Mitt's offensive "gifts" comment, then cashing in on a FREE gift to get the symbol of his newly found regret lasered right off his temple.
Today in books and publishing: Martin Amis talks class; agent to the literary stars Tina Bennett has a new employer; the Justice Department responds to criticism of its investigation of Apple's e-book pricing; dispatches from the Rare Book School.
Discovered: Baboons can (almost) read, the baby boomer generation is dying alone, a totally unsurprising correlation between tattoos and drinking, and a super-sucky sponge.
The tweets that tied us up in knots today
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