Via Curbed LA: In the early 1990s, Senior Curator Emeritus of LACMA Maurice Tuchman commissioned museum architect Brent Saville to design the perfect Hollywood Hills home. According to an interview with Luxury Culture, the architect then put Tuchman to work: "At the outset, Brent insisted that I take the time - two months, as I recall - to write an intricately detailed three-page memorandum to him with the precise way I anticipated, ideally, living in the house on a day to day basis... From this exacting program, the architect made his plans."

The result was a 5,582 square foot home that both showcased Tuchman's extensive contemporary art collection and was, in itself, a work of art. There are two bedrooms and four bathrooms, an office, a library, a fitness room and heated pool. The original listing boasts about the home's star quality as "the subject of the Discovery Channel documentary 'Dream Living, the Astral House' and filmed in Steven Soderbergh's movie 'The Limey.' " Rent at $14,000 a month comes with original furnishing, a contemporary art collection, and housekeeping twice a week.

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The release of a Bob Woodward book is something of a tradition in politics, and here's how it works: the week before its release, copies are obtained by reporters, who comb through the tome to find zazzy parts of the book to write about, baiting the hook for pundits to gnash their teeth over the odd quote or shiny detail. It's like your book club, if your book club were filled with sozzled megalomaniacs instead of normal people.

In this case, Woodward's new book is called "Obama's Wars" and it is about Obama's wars. But not just the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's about the "wars" within the White House, which explains why it gets so much attention -- everyone in the media believes that "war" is something that primarily affects the relative fortunes of fascinating political insiders, not something that kills and maims soldiers and destroys the homes of children half a world away.

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You are a slave boy passing by the Athenian Agora when suddenly you are approached by a bald, bumpy-headed old man with a crooked nose and wild, excited eyes. Stooping at your feet, he scratches out a dusty square and begins pummeling you with a series of odd questions. Quite accidentally you have become a small but critical player in human intellectual history. You are about to help the old man settle a dispute with his friend Meno. The old man is Socrates and the dispute is about the Truth -- whether it really exists. You are about to show that it does.

In his dialogue Meno, Plato argues for the existence of a world of Forms -- a world of perfection. Socrates, the hero in most of Plato's dialogues, queries a slave boy about his knowledge of geometry. Unsurprisingly, he has none; or he thinks he has none. With careful questioning, Socrates shows that this simple, uneducated slave boy understands the Pythagorean theorem even though he has no experience of geometric formulas. Instead, his only experience has been with the imperfect shapes and measures abounding in the everyday world. But of the pure invariant mathematical relations that lie behind abstract geometry, he is utterly naïve.

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We all know by now that Mel Gibson is crazypants: A racist, sexist, anti-Semitic man with a god complex and a misunderestimation of the ability of people to turn on him. If you had any doubts about these claims, the two-minute tape posted by RadarOnline will not only push you over the line, but throw you there. In it Gibson tells his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that she's dressing like a whore and it will be her fault if she's raped by a bunch of black men (yep, he used the N-word) because her p--sy is hanging out everywhere. You have to give it to Mel, he has an amazing ability to unite whites, blacks, women, hispanics, and Jews by making them all hate him. What peace activists have tried to do for decades, Mel did with a couple of slurs and threats.

How, may you ask, does this terrible terrible story end up in the comedy section? With a remix of course! HalfDayToday.com took the tape and made it the world's scariest dance single. The only thing funnier about the situation is that his soon-to-be-released next film is called "Beaver."

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