Surprisingly risqué comedy material for Laura Bush.

Laura Bush took over for her husband doing the comedy at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight. I was surprised by how risqué it wa...

You know you've been working on the computer too long...

When the mouse starts to resemble Angelina Jolie.

The racial side of the filibuster controversy.

Lawprof Steven Calabresi has this piece in the new Weekly Standard: Why are Senate Democrats so afraid of conservative judicial nominees wh...

Songs transformed with the sex of the singer.

What songs well-known as girl songs would take on intriguing meaning sung by a guy? Tori Amos comes up with a list of 20 songs , but I find ...

"Too immature" to decide to have an abortion?

A state judge is preventing a 13-year-old girl from having an abortion, the theory being that she is "too immature" to make her o...

Virtual high school.

I'm interested in virtual high schools, as I wrote here . And now, I see there's this virtual high school blog .

The runaway bride.

"14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen"! Maybe it's not such a great idea to have a super-huge wedding. On the other hand, if the s...

"That's not what a guilty man does."

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports a victory for the Wisconsin Innocence Project of the University of Wisconsin Law School: The first j...

What would Robin Hood do?

John Tierney has an op-ed today about Bush's plan to reshape Social Security to give the greatest benefit to the poor: [Democrats] trie...

Beware of the man with a cause, a guitar, and a belief in his own way with words.

Michael Newdow -- the man who opposed "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance -- what's he up to these days? Look out, he'...

Most laughs ever received by a right-leaning guest on "The Daily Show."

I'd say it was Christina Hoff Sommers, this past Wednesday, promoting her book about how the self-esteem movement in schools has gone t...

Pretty/ugly street.

Such a pretty street. Look how the cherry blossoms lean out next to the old brick building, as a solitary woman makes a private call: There...

Isn't this the Rosie O'Donnell movie you've been waiting for?

Virginia Heffernan writes : [L]ike Tom Hanks's Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump" and Sean Penn's Sam in "I Am Sam" ...

What happened to "The Apprentice"?

After watching all of the first two seasons of "The Apprentice," I abandoned this season somewhere in the middle, though I did occ...

Two things Matt Drudge thinks people make fun of him for caring about.

1. Human cloning. 2. Surveillance cameras everywhere. He's on C-Span with Brian Lamb right now. At one point, we see him check his traff...

Blogging, not slogging.

" Movies encourage passive titillation; videogames encourage active involvement, and often present consequences as well." True? N...

The scream is over.

I hope not .

"You Really Got Me."

The Telegraph reports : The Kinks' You Really Got Me is officially the best song of its period. Radio 2 listeners voted it above Dusty S...

Bo Bice ≈ Bob Ice.

Did you know if you Google "Bo Bice," you're asked if you meant "Bob Ice"? I could make an ice/snow wisecrack about...

The Hindu Disneyland.

Gangadham . I love it! Not every religion could be expressed as a theme park.

The Lord God bird lives.

Thrilling ! A grown man breaks into sobs when he realizes what he has seen. Beautiful!

It's the end of the radio as we know it.

Here 's a piece in the Washington Post about how people in Washington don't listen to talk radio much anymore. The station with Al F...

Camille/Constantine: the vote.

If the comment count on this blog can be regarded as some sort of vote: Constantine Maroulis is trouncing Camille Paglia . People are way m...

Octopus pants! Pelican wigs!

Eggagog is back from vacation! I'm going to be smiling all day!

Odd odds.

I'm very glad they caught this serial rapist . I remember how it felt to be a woman living in NYC at the time these attacks were occurri...

Summer!

Today is kind of the first day of summer. The last class was yesterday. I've still got two exams to write (and, later, grade) and a big ...

The Constantine shocker!

The American people voted off my guy! Constantine! I can't believe it! So that was a weird "American Idol" tonight, and everyo...

"Try to survive a tornado with a post-structuralist."

Camille Paglia in Madison. I show up early for the Camille Paglia reading at Borders this evening. The place is packed. I find a seat and th...

And then what?

That last post got an Instapundit link for the proposition "HAVING A BLOG means that no research idea is ever wasted!" I could ma...

Constitutional blood.

Sometimes, going over lists of documents on my computer, I find things that I've entirely lost track of. Today, I saw in my "conlaw...

Last day.

It's 37 degrees here in Madison, but at the same time, it's the beginning of summer, because today is the last day of spring semeste...

"American Idol" -- songs of the past few years.

The "theme" tonight is songs of the past few years, and with only six contestants left, we're going to while away the extra mi...

Late afternoon, redbud reflected in the glass table.

ABC vs. "American Idol."

Drudge is reporting that ABC is going to run an exposé revealing how Paula Abdul is somehow "cheating" on "American Idol...

Laboratories of justice.

In constitutional law, we often speak of the states as "laboratories of democracy" -- Justice Brandeis invented the term. Less oft...

"They don’t dare stand up in their own defense because it’s not the attractive thing to do."

Did RLC take a big lurch right yesterday? Meanwhile, relativist leftists are starting to look more and more like their liberal, well–bred c...

Judges and religion: the Young-Bainbridge debate.

Cathy Young responds to Stephen Bainbridge on the question whether it is discrimination against religion to oppose a judicial nominee who ...

Chaos without the filibuster?

In The Atlantic, Stuart Taylor writes from the imaginary perpective of post-election 2008 and sees disaster for the Republicans -- all foll...

The ambitious baby.

~~~ Originally uploaded by John Cohen . I took this picture in 1981.

Our local idol, Bucky.

I hear some shouting out on the Hill, and I turn away from my work to see what's going on. They're putting up a big Bucky Badger flo...

Sincere divas.

Camille Paglia is appearing at Borders in Madison this Wednesday at 7 p.m. Not to be missed, if you're in the vicinity. And here 's...

The big, foaming mass-o'-celebrities blog.

Arianna Huffington thinks she's discovered something new in blogging: the group blog with famous people, a lot of famous people. If yo...

It has something to do with Satan and a toad.

Richard explains why he's still not posting photographs on his blog.

Oh, do I have to go out?

I'm getting a lot of things done sitting right here at the dining table today: blogging, newspaper reading, pulling my notes together fo...

Does this make me look like a tourist?

No, it's not the sandals, the fanny pack, or the camera anymore...

"All nine actors put on the owlish glasses to play Lennon himself, including the four women and two black men."

It's that new "Lennon" musical, playing in San Francisco -- described by Newsweek. Sounds heavy on the Ono: It was the Lennon...

Cool photos.

~~~ Originally uploaded by John Cohen . I gave my son John one of the free Flickr accounts I had, and he's uploaded a ton of ph...

"I'm a waiter!"

Chris says happily. He's got his summer job -- his first waiter job, the one after which you can always say you have experience as a wai...

Shooting the caviar.

Hey, did you know Tonya returned to the world of active blogdom? I just noticed she blogged last Thursday's dinner , replete with a hila...

Finally, Satan!

So what do we want from a third season of "Joan of Arcadia"? The last episode of season two laid out some options . Do we want Joa...

But he loves lemonade and kitty-cats.

Pope P.R. "Those who describe him as cold, detached, inaccessible and too intellectual have not met him."

"Since your title is my quote..."

A person quoted in an article I linked shows up in the comments section here . (Scroll down to Jennifer Mickel. I assume it's really the...

Should we screen out mean?

The fuss over the Bolton nomination leads to a more general examination of the phenomenon of mean people in politics. Apparently, there hav...

"The university was in chaos... It was horrible."

The NYT portrays the new pope's conservatism as an emotive reaction to leftist protesters. Interesting article. A sample: [W]hile his d...

Comments persona.

An emailer writes: I immensely enjoyed your comment response appended to the Feingold post . If I read it correctly, it was not quite writte...

Shopping.

Nina has a nice post commemorating our shopping trip today, complete with photos of: the black Corvette that passed us, cute kids at the Ap...

Disappearing.

A blank page seems to have replaced my blog. Maybe a new post will cure things. I hope. UPDATE: Well, the second time it worked. What the he...

Disappearing.

Disturbingly, when I try to go to my blog right now, I get nothing but a blank. Somehow, I'm thinking publishing a post will cure the pr...

The "right" to change the Pledge?

Tyler Cowen asks if a teacher has "the right to change the Pledge of Allegiance." As The Washington Times reports : The students ...

Readability.

Stephen Bainbridge and Gordon Smith are fooling around with a website that purports to calculate the readability of your webpage. Gordon ...

Theater reviews that make you very nervous.

Here 's a correction in today's NYT: A theater review in Weekend yesterday about "The Beauty Inside," by Catherine Fillou...

Did Moussaoui admit to being part of the 9/11 conspiracy?

He tried not to : He said that despite his guilty plea he had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead, he said, he had been plannin...

Senator Feingold lectures at the Law School.

The topic: "Upholding an Oath to the Constitution: A Legislator's Responsibilities." Russ Feingold spoke about his devotion to...