Worth A Link

• Try this one at home: via BoingBoing, a 1939 marital rating scale for wives. She gets demerits for wearing red nail polish, failing to darn socks, or putting her cold feet on hubby at night to warm them. She gets credits for dressing for breakfast, letting her husband sleep late on holidays, and playing the violin.
• Hendrik Hertzberg has three stories from the Failed War On Drugs, including one about a man who was refused a spot on the liver transplant list until he completed a 60-day drug treatment class. The drug he was using? Medical marijuana. The 56-year-old man didn't need rehab, he needed a liver, but he didn't get one, and now he's dead.
• How do you go from being a manager at Home Depot to the new lead singer of a touring classic rock band?
• Nerve.com has compiled a list of the 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies. Most are from "SNL," but they included this one from Dave Chappelle's show, too.
• Drew Carey and Reason.tv did a "Footloose"-like piece recently on a restaurant in Arizona that got in trouble for allowing its customers to dance to pre-recorded music on the patio. Last week, a judge ruled against the local authorities and said the restaurant wasn't doing anything wrong.
• Remember that judge who lost his seat on the bench after filing a $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner over a pair of lost pants? Now he's suing DC for $1 million, claiming he was wrongfully dismissed.
• How Dick Cavett beat the polygraph