Friend of the Law School. The Capital Times reports : Frederick W. Miller, the longtime chairman of the board of The Capital Times Co. who ...

Life in Madison: chilly, musical, and overworked. Well, I'm horribly busy today. With an edit of a long law review article on one side ...

Journeys With George. I didn't have HBO back when Alexandra Pelosi's documentary Journeys With George was on originally, so it was...

"George Bush has launched a full-scale assault on women while the war in Iraq continues to provide cover for the damage he is doing to...

Slightly off Madison windows. Maybe you should use a window sill as a bookshelf, especially if your window is at street level and people lo...

Chants recently chanted. The AP reports: The Massachusetts Legislature adopted a new version of a state constitutional amendment Monday th...

Lidrock. We were just talking last night about why CD packaging hasn't been improved (after all these years of complaints about how har...

A Borders encounter with a Bush supporter. I was browsing at the front display table at Borders last night, when an old woman, for some rea...

Kerry in 1971. C-Span showed an old episode of The Dick Cavett Show with the young John Kerry debating a Nixon supporter, also a Vietnam ve...

The Evil One relents , just enough to preserve the allegiance of one who was about to turn to the light .

The original Eternal Sunshine ending. I can't find a link for it, but the original text of Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for Eternal...

Madison themes merge here. In the window of Badger Liquor, there's this chalked sign: And one of their more traditional signs: And, to ...

Scenes From a Marriage. I've been watching the DVD of the Ingmar Bergman TV series Scenes From a Marriage , which had been edited down ...

The Kerry surgery-snowboarding mystery. There are reports today that John Kerry is going in for surgery on his shoulder, to deal with an o...

The science of reality show casting. The NYT reports --on the front page--on the science of casting for a reality show: [T]o be cast in the...

"A small incident will shortly develop to your advantage." So says my fortune cookie (which is in no position to know). Time to l...

But what movie did you see? I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the first movie I've gone out to see since House of Sand and Fo...

Small pleasures. At the restaurant where I've stopped for an after-movie, mid-afternoon meal of the day, there's wifi. So, a little...

At the Kubrick archive, the dog is not well. ( Via Metafilter ) Access to the Kubrick archive leads to strange discoveries: … a large roo...

The kinder, gentler Madison. It's not all divisive politics. There are spring flowers taking hold in the concrete: Music in the offing:...

Local politics. Here's a new Madison character, perhaps exemplifying the level of public discourse:

Things I've averted my eyes from. This says it all. (Link via Wonkette .) What a shameful display it's been! Must the Presidential...

And the best medicine is.... Okay, kids, go ahead !

Outliner 2.0. The Law School Bookmart is selling a product called Outliner 2.0. Could it possibly be that anyone could think that an automa...

Players. Here 's the leaderboard for the Players Championship, where my nephew Cliff Kresge is in the 32d spot, after 5 holes, in the ...

Sex and The Apprentice. Prof. Yin aptly notes that the all-female team, Protege, has now become all-male: the rules of the game providing ...

Madison photographs. So, you may be wondering (maybe one person is wondering), what happened to all the Madison photographs? Nothing since ...

Simulblogging The Apprentice. Gordon decided to join me and Prof. Yin by blogging The Apprentice, but he ups the ante--note clever gamblin...

Conservative students at Wisconsin. At the UW Law School we have a coffee & doughnuts session about once a week with students. This wee...

"[T]his kind of very comprehensive supreme being, Seeger-type thing." That's a quote from Justice Breyer from the oral argume...

Jabari was wronged. From The Life of Pi : [Zoo] animals do not escape to somewhere but from something. Something within their territory h...

In its anti-binge drinking zeal, did the UW organize a cartel? The Capital Times reports : A class action lawsuit was filed today in Dane C...

Straightforwardly. In the hope of finding more news reports that discussed Justice Souter's comment, quoted below, I Googled "tepi...

The Newdow oral argument . Early reports on the oral argument are emerging. The AP report makes it hard to tell how the standing issue will...

Curly hair. About last night's American Idol: they have taken away Jennifer Hudson's beautiful curly hair and have made a big deal ...

Who cares about standing? 56 briefs were filed in the Pledge of Allegiance case, but the word "standing" appears in only 10 of the...

Safire's Pledge solution. William Safire discusses the Pledge of Allegiance cas e, which will be argued in the Supreme Court today, and...

A right not to reveal your name? Here's the nice website of Larry D. Hiibel who was convicted of a crime in Nevada for refusing to tel...

The Iraqi Federalist Papers. What do you do when you find there are "wild negative rumors about the interim constitution" in Ira...

The Dawn of the Dead/Passion of the Christ Joke. I predicted here that Jon Stewart would go for the ready-made joke about Dawn of the Dead...

Madison, weekend. I don't understand sports enough to explain the presence of greenness in redville this weekend. I don't think it ...

Boo to American Airlines for demanding that one of my sons get off the plane going from O'Hare to Madison at 9 o'clock at night beca...

Overblogging. Clearly, I was overblogging on Saturday and Sunday, fueled by the return of my iBook and the fun of figuring out my new camer...

"Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, thank you so much--you've been just lovely--a real knock out." That's Prince, at the Hall...

The politics of your zip code. Go ahead, just type your zip code here and find out who in the area gave money to which presidential candid...

Blogspot ads. I suppose I'd like to be able to get rid of the Blogspot ads, but at the same time, I find it interesting to see what the...

What plays did William Faulkner see? What did he read? I hadn't exactly been wondering, but this article by Javier Marías in Threepenn...

Are you done talking about the New York Times yet? Well, I wanted to talk about the philosophy therapist and Al Franken and Spalding Gray...

Xiaoze Xie. Here's another artist. (Cool name, too.) More images here . This is a good insight: "When I was in China, my fellow s...

"The Weather Project" I like this Olafur Eliasson installation in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern. The NYT writes : An instan...

An easy to laugh at correction. The NYT has to correct two things about its review of Jayson Blair's book. Here's a more significa...

The Plot Skeleton. I wanted to include some discussion of the Scott Meredith "plot skeleton" in that last post, and did some Goog...

Art formulas. Should we shake our heads at the production of formulas for art, like "Hit Song Science" ? PolyphonicHMI says the s...

Punks for Bush. The Times notes a trend: "Punks will tell me, `Punk and capitalism don't go together,' " [22-year-old Ni...

Too much ready-made humor. Dawn of the Dead has defeated The Passion of The Christ at the boxoffice this weekend. The potential for jokes ...

Dada in Canada. What do they give high artistic awards for in Canada these days? Well, according to the NYT, Istvan Kantor got $12,000 for...

Madison, Saturday morning. With my restored iBook, I'm at Espresso Royale, where the cappucino is extra-hard on the nerves, I'm rel...