"American Idol" -- the "guys."

Simon reveals that he has already identified the winner. Mario Vasquez: He's my favorite, but he was a little bland tonight. Simon's...

About those high-heeled boots.

This amused me.

Free-floating anti-SUV hostility.

The NYT has some letters to the editor today about that op-ed that said the reason Frenchwomen don't get fat is that they smoke a lot. ...

"German to build corpse art factory in Poland."

So reports Reuters. It's just Gunther Von Hagens back in the news. I like that photo and recommend clicking to enlarge, but you might ...

The morning after the Oscars.

Last night, I simulblogged the Oscars . The morning, what sticks in my mind? First: how mad I am at Jamie Foxx for romanticizing child abuse...

5:51 Central Time. There is still an hour to go before the big Oscars show begins, and I will be going strictly live beginning then. No TiV...

Oscar-blogging.

The BBC has a reporter live-blogging behind the scenes at the Oscars. Are you better off blogging the Oscars from inside Hollywood or in fr...

Who's emigrating for political reasons?

The NYT reports on the large number of Dutch citizens who are eager to emigrate: Many Dutch also seem bewildered that their country, run fo...

Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide -- redux.

Here 's a long piece by Hog on Ice about the Hunter S. Thompson suicide. ("I guess that if there's anything more ignominious th...

Podcasting.

I'm not saying I'll ever podcast, but I'm trying to figure out how I would do it with my iBook. I've got a decent microphone...

Mr. Moderato.

A new trend ?

"Scissors count, but the knife does not."

Now that we've defined what a gadget is, let's identify the top 100 gadgets of all time. Or, let the fighting begin by having one ma...

The Oscars!

Yes, I will be simulblogging the Oscars tomorrow night. Will I be playing the Oscars Drinking Game while simulblogging? Better not! But gre...

Why does Road Kill candy send the wrong message?

A rash of criticism has already bullied Kraft into getting rid of its Road Kill candy, a Gummi-style candy in the shape of various animals ...

Power and image.

My post about Condoleezza Rice on GlennReynolds.com brought a lot of email, some of which I reprint here , but one email really stood out. ...

"These boots are made for running for President."

So you want to know what I thought about that Washington Post article about the sexuality of Condoleezza Rice's new clothes? I put my o...

Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide.

Under big red block letters that say " ENTERTAINMENT " over on CNN.com: Thompson shot self while talking with wife 'He set th...

Lips.

Like the new lips festooning my sidebar? I do!

Blog game ironies.

A ridiculous irony in the game of blogging is that you can score a lot of links by saying something that people disagree with vehemently. It...

Confronting terrorist plane hijackers -- circa 1985.

Goodbye to Uli Derickson, whose story appears on the obituary page today: On June 14, 1985, when a pair of Lebanese gunmen commandeered a T...

What the heavy metal musician is really thinking.

Citing his Christian beliefs, guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch leaves his heavy metal band , Korn: Welch told The Bakersfield California...

The good teacher's nightmare.

Richard Lawrence Cohen reports this true story from Austin, Texas: In an Austin elementary school known for its diversity, a second–grade c...

The horrible Mr. Wead.

I'm officially abandoning my theory that Bush knew Douglas Wead was taping him -- because things have gone so badly for Mr. Wead: Mr. ...

Descent into karaoke hell.

Tom Bozzo has some nice photos of last night's blogger dinner, both before and after it descended into karaoke hell. Tonya writes : ...

Some blog thoughts.

There's a blogger dinner tonight, and we're bringing our laptops and cameras, so who knows what might get posted. I look forward to ...

Comparing the reactions to the deaths of Hunter S. Thompson and Arthur Miller.

Have you noticed the difference in how the press has covered the deaths of these two prominent writers? When Arthur Miller died, the press d...

Pseudonymity.

Coy lawprof blogger "Oscar Madison" has some some thoughts about blogging pseudonymously. (What is the blog equivalent of "p...

Women and blogging, re-Drummed.

Kevin Drum collects responses to his recent Women and Blogging post, including mine . He concludes: Hmmm, should I defend myself? Only to ...

Condi's glower.

I'm an early enthusiast in the Condi for President movement. See here and here . But I still laughed a lot at "The Daily Show...

Let Oregon be Oregon?

Here's Linda Greenhouse's analysis of the Oregon assisted suicide case, which the Supreme Court announced yesterday it would hear. ...

Surgical -- and plumbing -- wonders.

Not for the faint-hearted .

Which pre-blogging writer created the style of writing found in blogging?

Ambivablog introduced the topic, we emailed, I said that one of her choices is the answer, and she updates her post to add that. (This wri...

"American Idol": the hazards of splitting up the "guys" and the "girls."

The restructuring of "American Idol," separating the male and female contestants for the middle phase, is making me hyper-aware of...

Federalism and the assisted suicide case.

I'm glad to see that the Supreme Court has taken cert in the assisted suicide case: The Oregon law was intended to help adults with inc...

Why does the word "bloggers" appear in the NYT's Hunter S. Thompson obituary?

A bold-faced, pull-out line in the paper NYT reads: Like bloggers, building his case for the state of America around his opinions. Here ...

"Fat is sinfully complicated."

That's the title of my new post over on GlennReynolds.com . Someone emailed to denounce me for ignorantly ripping on the Atkins diet, wh...

In the style of MSM, fiction-writers worry about bloggers.

Some fiction writers blog about bloggers making them obsolete. RLC concludes it's the "Americanization of the arts, going along wi...

Wolfe on Thompson.

Tom Wolfe writes a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson, who shared his first-hand research for "The Hell's Angels, a Strange and Terribl...

A rabbi looks at Christo's "Gates."

On Kesher Talk . An excerpt: The gate is the threshold between the known and the unknown, past and future. It's a place of risk, where d...

Speak English.

Gregg Easterbrook writes in TNR that it's great when languages die out. [ADDED: The link is for subscribers only -- sorry.] The fewer l...