"American Idol" -- a tasteless display.

Tonight's a bit of a horror, isn't it? The judges are very hard on the "girls," and this is a relief for me, so I don'...

"This is a national problem. It’s not just a Harvard problem."

Here's Camille Paglia talking about the Larry Summers affair on Open Source Radio : The humanities have destroyed themselves over the p...

"We like the sound of her voice, she uses really good phrases."

Said about me . "She's obviously a professional speaker and lecturer, and it was a cool way to use these words but not make it too ...

Anna Nicole Smith goes to the Supreme Court.

First, the great picture: Now, for the substance of the WaPo's report : The justices are dealing with a technical question: When may fed...

What do women want?/What should women want?

Blogging about "The Apprentice" last night , I happened to write, "The Synergy folk are pushing manicures and massages -- you...

"I lived 13 years in New York, I see a lot of big cases on TV. I think the judges is fair."

Says Ehab Elmaghraby , an Egyptian man who the U.S. detained and then deported after 9/11. He's settling his lawsuit --for $300,000 -- o...

Blogs "have nothing to do with scholarship."

The National Law Journal has an article on lawprofs blogs: An increasing number of law professors are using blogs... to break free from tra...

"The Apprentice" is back again already.

Are you going to watch? Funny that they don't give you time to miss it, the way "American Idol" does. It seems the last seaso...

The gender mysteries of Don Knotts.

Virginia Heffernan has a nice piece about the late Don Knotts: He was wonderfully unthreatening to other male comics, all of whom could thi...

Trying to build the World Trade Center memorial.

It's been difficult raising the money for the World Trade Center Memorial. For one thing, the amount is $500 million. And there have be...

Audible Althouse #38.

Religion, chaos, iconoclasm, originalism, the Golden Mosque, what God wants, and "if it feels good do it." Here . Live-stream here...

"The actor embodies his subject right down to the hesitant flare of his nostrils."

Nostril acting, praised! (Nostrils and acting, an ongoing topic on a blog called Althouse.)

Listening to Supreme Court arguments.

A reader emails: A few weeks back you mentioned in passing that audio of Supreme Court arguments are available at www.oyez.org In the conte...

Karl Pilkington!

There's a little article about this hilarious man in today's NYT: Karl Pilkington has debated the merits of eating a kangaroo's...

Business management lessons from the Larry Summers affair.

Patrick D. Healy writes: If the board says it wants you to "shake things up" and "bring change," don't believe them....

Why do all those members of Congress agree to go on "The Colbert Report"...

... where they are subjected to all manner of foolery? At a time when surveys show younger voters turning away from the mainstream media in ...

"The split mirrors the rift among gay-rights advocates over the question of same-sex marriage."

What do anti-abortion advocates want right now , as they look to their next go-round in the Supreme Court? Some, like Daniel McConchie of Am...

"Many do not realize that the schedule of the flaneur, it can be very demanding..."

"... what with the strolling of the boulevards, and the sipping of the Camparis and the cappuccinos, and the reading of the gossip rags...

"Next to the SEX PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain."

The Sex Pistols decline to show up for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Frame. "Were (sic) not your monkey and so what?...

Goodbye to Don Knotts.

Everyone loved the brilliant comic actor Don Knotts. He was 81. As the bug-eyed deputy to Griffith, Knotts carried in his shirt pocket the o...

Upstairs and downstairs, at the Madison Borders.

I was just wandering around Borders today, sipping a large latte, glancing at the occasional book. I was certainly not looking to buy any bo...

"Project Jay" -- what's really going on here?

I finally got around to watching "Project Jay," the reality show that follows around Jay McCarroll, the Season 1 winner of the rea...

"I didn't feel my inner peace, I didn't feel my aura."

The WaPo is giving out its own Olympic medals . Example: Best Johnny Weir Quotes Gold: "I never felt comfortable in this building. I di...

More about that Federalist Society conference.

Rick Garnett was also at the "Rehnquist Legacy" conference on Thursday. Here 's his post about it over on Prawfsblog. My post ...

"Suppose people picked hotels based on how intelligent they expected the other guests to be."

They'd be acting like someone who chooses to go to Harvard as an undergraduate, writes John Tierney -- TimesSelect link -- in his colum...

Religion, free speech, books, quotes.

Andrew Sullivan has some nice photos from a rally in D.C. in support of Denmark and free speech. I like the H.L. Mencken quote on one of th...

Twins rights.

Schools often have the policy of breaking up twins (and triplets, etc.), putting them in different classrooms. The schools think separating...

Arakawa... and that unitard!

Despite spending most of the day separated from my beloved internet, I stayed off all the news sites and even blogs and my own comments sect...

"American Idol" -- the results.

How they fill out a whole hour is a big TV mystery. They're eliminating two girls and two guys. First, it's Becky who must go. Here...

Afraid?

Are you like me: afraid to click on anything, lest you read who won in women's skating? I guess this is your big chance to muck up the c...

At the Rehnquist conference.

I'm back from Milwaukee. I got there on time, despite some bad traffic and the fact that the ramp listed on my Mapquest instructions was...

Conference..

Today is the Federalist Society conference, "The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court." I'm on the second panel, but I certainly don...

"Why the cutthroat thing?

Says Daniel Franco to Santino on the "Project Runway" reunion show. Santino: "It's just straight shit talking. There'...

"American Idol" -- the guys!

Oh, yeah, I am here, ready to blog the guys. Sorry, I had to talk on the telephone. Now, to the TiVo. Patrick Hall . "Come to My Window...

Mutual mosque destruction.

After the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra: Shiite militia members flooded the streets of Baghdad, firing rocket-propelled grenades ...

Photo.

By Christopher Althouse Cohen:

"When it's a pool day, we ask people to put in five bucks. So if you wasn't there, or you didn't put five bucks in, sorry."

The 8 meat packing workers who pooled their money for a lottery ticket won $365 million . At least three of the winners Wednesday are immigr...

A powerful implicit argument against the death penalty.

A judge orders anesthesia for an execution by lethal injection, but anesthesiologists decline to participate. [The judge] then said officia...

Slutskaya wore pants!

And Sasha Cohen? As they say on "Project Runway," "too much tootie." Quit aiming that thing at me. Seriously, I love th...

How will blogging affect legal scholarship?

For the better! That's what I've been saying. Here 's an article in the Wall Street Journal on the subject: [A]ccording to Danie...

The Court will consider the "partial-birth" abortion law.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case about the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which makes it a crime to kill when ...

Dome.

Done .

"American Idol" -- the first 12 ladies.

Now we can finally vote, and we see the females, two of whom will be eliminated this week. Mandisa sings Heart's "Never." I t...

Just[ices] say yes to hallucinogenic tea.

The Supreme Court is back from a long break today, with Samuel Alito on the bench for the first time. There's a new opinion , in the hal...