" 'Femmebomb' brought down by windbomb ." What might have been.

Talking heads who can talk. In Entertainment Weekly, Jessica Shaw recounts the behind the scenes drama of the Barry Manilow episode of Ame...

Do passive students need more toys? Prof. Maule has some thoughts on that classroom clicker device that I wrote about yesterday. I came o...

Howard Dean will have his own talk show. (Cheap humor: scream show.) I'll believe it when I see it--where's Clinton's talk show...

"The sniper community." For years, I've been following the overuse of the word "community." Not everyone who can be...

Simon guesses who will be the AI final two. My guess, as I clicked on this article in Entertainment Weekly, was LaToya and Diana. Turns ou...

Striking ... splinters. Jeremy links to some blogs written about the stresses of striking by striking TAs, like this one : this morning i ...

Omarosa and ... the ordeal of the bier! According to Jeannette Walls at MSNBC News: The much-loathed reject from “The Apprentice” was sche...

If only law students had a remote control ... not that they could click off their boring lawprof, but they could conceivably be kept consta...

Sex in Space. So, what's the expert scientific opinion on who should be sent on a Mars trip? According to Peter Bond , "a British ...

Prince/Musicology. VH-1 ran a nice, but ridiculously short concert show with Prince last night. The first part, with new songs, featured a ...

Blog conversation instead of in-person conversation. Tonya has remarked on our tendency to converse via blog, but I'm still going to a...

Kerry on Hardball. I'm watching Kerry on Hardball. This is billed as an "exclusive" interview with Kerry. What does that mean...

What do I have to do to get some crab around here ? Here, being Hokkaido. And: the cutest kids in the world.

Harmony and order have been restored in American Idol Land. Aw, that was a sweet results show. The dear boy, John Stevens, had to leave and...

"Whereas, Ann A. Althouse, is known to represent the highest Republican ideals and principles..." Okay, a week or so ago, I made ...

Meandering about gerrymandering. I haven't chewed over the new gerrymandering case, Vieth , enough to want to take position. It's h...

Madison cops. I'm typing this in a café on State Street, looking out the window at two Madison police officers. They are wearing shorts...

The speed spraypainter guy. Here's a local street artist, putting on his speed spraypainting show and gathering a crowd. (But what'...

Trivia about the Park Street pedestrian bridge. In the Rodney Dangerfield movie, Back to School , filmed here, the bridge is draped with a ...

"Good people don't cross picket lines." The TAs undertake the teaching of ethics on Day 2 of the strike. I know it looks like...

The semester has ended. It's a beautiful day and the last class is over. Time now to write exams and tie up all the many loose ends and...

"Kerry is in an impossible box on Iraq." I keep waiting to hear Kerry say what he will do in Iraq, and I can't even think abo...

I say she looks great. Maybe everyone is making fun of her, but you can't really make fun of a person who's having so much fun dar...

"No Strike in Our Name." Things chalked on the sidewalk on Bascom Mall relating to the TA strike : Get to work hippies Students h...

"The holy city of ..." What are the journalistic standards for referring to a city, in an ordinary news report, as the "holy...

Yay! Nina's blogging photos from Hokkaido! Glad she got the camera/website coordination problems fixed, over there in Sapporo. She...

Simon's new tactic. Here's my take on Simon Cowell on tonight's American Idol. He took stock of the way American voters reacted...

What are the chances that John Edwards will end up as the Democratic nominee? Interesting speculation in The Village Voice (via Drudge ).

Blogging your way to free housing at NYU. Wasn't there always a story about an NYU student living in the library? I remember hearing su...

"Freedom is keeping us free." Ah, Television Without Pity has its recap of last week's "American Idol" shows up. I ...

"Kenny Boy" and the Times and the oral argument in the Cheney case. I know the Times has a standard policy of alerting its reader...

The music of the strike. Well, the TA strike is on and visible, audible from my office window, which looks out on Bascom Mall. There was a ...

That Dick Cheney case in the Supreme Court. Nina Totenberg had an excellent presentation this morning on the case about compelling Dick Ch...

Shocking blog-related thing I did last night.

I guess it was a slow comedy day. I was told by someone who seemed to know that "The Daily Show" had given up on doing a segment...

More blog dangers. Tonya notes that having a blog can make you cut short an ordinary personal conversation by saying I've blogged abou...

Things to read. Ooh, I see Nina's finally gotten around to blogging from Japan . And blogging an awful lot. It's late, so I'm j...

I can't improve on Wonkette's priceless wisecrack about this picture , but, oh, does this T-shirt irk me! What the hell kind of fem...

The area where Clinton hopes to be the equal of Ulysses S. Grant: Writing a worthy memoir . But Grant only wrote a good memoir because he ...

The VMI dinner prayer case. The U.S. Supreme Court denied cert. today in Bunting v. Mellen (link via How Appealing ), a case that present...

The looming Bucky. What’s this they’re setting up on Bascom Mall? A giant-headed mascot badgers me to have my picture taken with him. That’...

"The pursuit of beauty is honorable." So Estée Lauder used to like to say. The announcement of her death at age 97 along with a p...

A new dimension of law school nurturing. The worst thing about that Adam Liptak article (discussed in the previous post) is that it present...

Has Concord Law School conquered law school? Adam Liptak, in today's NYT, writes about a law school--Concord Law School--that exists o...

Stylish punctuation. Edmund Morris gives a pretty bad review to the brilliantly titled book about punctuation, "Eats, Shoots & Le...

"I really feel like we were discriminated against..." The outrage of being denied a twelfth slab of roast beef at the $8.99 buff...

The Times gets the Quote of the Day wrong again. It should be : "We're a victim of the drug war. It seems like we still got plenty...

"You were wrong dissociable brindle." You know it is bad enough that I couldn't sleep at all last night (except for the first...

Marrying the father figure. So if a teenage girl goes for a year believing an older man is her biological father, but then finds out it was...

The TA Strike. The TAs here are about to strike : But I wonder how much student support for them there is: (You may need to scroll down on...

"Defend your beloved country." The NYT reports : L. Paul Bremer III, chief of the American occupation authority, delivered a star...

Inferiority or superiority? David Brooks has a meditation on misunderstanding the Columbine murderers (who suffered, the evidence now show...

Technical difficulties experienced. It was a morning of minor technical difficulties. The Charter cable internet access was down again, so ...

Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple. Today is Shirley Temple's birthday, and TMC is showing a lot of her movies. I love Shirley and have m...