Audible Althouse #56.

Oh, yes. Audible Althouse is a podcast about the odd last few days on a blog called Althouse. And I do mean odd. Because it's a Friday ...

"Why don't they impeach the m*****f***** already?"

I need a new blog photo -- and just generally a photo to send to various places when they ask me for a photo. I enlisted a colleague of mine...

"I knew he loved Elvis.I didn't realize how much he loved Elvis."

Said President Bush, who thought up the idea of taking Junishiro Koizumi to Graceland : Mr. Koizumi, whose penchant for belting out Elvis on...

The Black Factory truck.

Strange: Encountered outside the humanities building: What is it? Check their website. Off in the distance, Music Hall: Let's go:

The deLatification of Wonkette.

David Lat is deWonkettifying himself to go work with Elizabeth Spiers on a new law blogging project. Great! I love Elizabeth Spiers . I was...

"Is blogging jazz?"

Amba asks.

"I think he was awe-struck that the court would rule for him, and give a little man like him an equal chance."

"Where he's from, that is not true." Says the lawyer for Salim Hamdan.

"The Court is giving the administration a mulligan."

Writes Randy Barnett about Hamdan. "But the do-over will be much more difficult than the initial shot would have been. It did not have...

Hamdan as the new Kelo.

Ronald A. Cass paints Hamdan as the new Kelo . That should be hard to do, since Kelo was about deferring to government and putting a low ...

Yap.

Pay.

The phony laptops-in-the-classroom problem, continued.

Law.com has a piece. (I'm quoted at the end.) Why all the articles on this subject? I keep getting phoned up for quotes. Well, somethin...

"A rush of generalized nostalgia, a soft-centered melancholy."

Holland Cotter opines on Edward Hopper: To me he's a period illustrator with something extra. Like most effective graphic design, his pi...

Supreme Court invalidates Guantanamo military commissions.

SCOTUSblog reports: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Congress did not take away the Court's authority to rule on the military co...

The judge and his...

... penis pump . Oh, no! Now, he's on trial facing up to 40 years in prison, and the jurors keep laughing . A man who once served as a ...

15 years!

A harsh sentence for Katrina looters.

"Alcohol is the No. 1 date-rape drug."

The Wisconsin State Journal reports: The nation's top party school could get a sobering jolt from a change in state law that puts alcoho...

That Texas redistricting case.

Here 's Linda Greenhouse's report on the Texas redistricting case: With only Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joining both parts of the de...

"What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage."

That's the title of a "Modern Love" essay by Amy Sutherland that has sat at the top of the NYT "Most E-Mailed" list...

"So now, I'm going to make like a divorce and split."

Said Bob Dylan, at the end of his "Theme Time Radio Hour." After last week's marriage theme, this week's theme was divorce...

Job title: Blog Advisor!

Peter Daou signs off over at Salon , as he leaves to serve Hillary Clinton as "a blog advisor to facilitate and expand her relationship...

Bush and Koizumi will make a pilgrimmage to Graceland.

It's immensely charming , isn't it? Japanese Prime Minster Junichiro Koizumi is a huge Elvis fan and our President -- whose predeces...

Rewatching movies.

Slate asked several directors and critics to name the movies they've rewatched the most. Spike Lee names "Election." He's...

Where should we eat lunch?

On the terrace of the University Club, with the profs? Or should we just get something from one of the food carts? Either way will be swell....

"Ever since the Boy Scouts first taught me how to care for our flag over 40 years ago, it has always held a special place in my heart."

Blecch! I got a call to do a radio show on the flag issue just now, and I had to say I haven't been paying any attention to that nonsen...

The past is in front of us, the future behind us.

Here 's a Science Times piece about a language, Aymara, that -- uniquely -- visualizes the future in back and the past in front: [T]he A...

"Nothing is of so much importance and of so much use to a young man entering life as to be well criticized by women."

That's a quote from Benjamin Disraeli, "man of fashion, satiric novelist, twice Prime Minister, and the dominant figure of the Con...

A week without TV.

If I'd done it on purpose, I could feel morally superior, but I find I've just stopped watching TV because nothing seems to be any g...

Hillary hires a blogger.

The NYT reports : Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has hired Peter Daou, one of the most prominent political bloggers in the na...

"Why is [Scalia] blogging his concurrence....?"

Read Dahlia Lithwick's write-up of yesterday's death penalty case, Kansas v. Marsh , in which the court upholds a state law that re...

"I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son."

"That was from the age of about four or five, before I even knew who he was. And for seven years people would follow me about school si...

Let's say it again: Alito is not "Scalito."

The decision in Gonzalez-Lopez , just handed down, is no surprise. Justice Scalia joined the liberals -- Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg, and Brey...

5 new Supreme Court cases.

SCOTUSblog has a preliminary account. ADDED: The campaign finance cases -- both called Randall v. Sorrell -- lack a majority opinion. The C...

"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are."

Wrote Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, quoted by foodie Kelly Alexander in TNR . She's riffing on a cookbook -- published two years ago --...

"Better for me to grab an hour in which to sit looking at the garden and sipping rooibos tea..."

(My ex) Richard decides to cut way back on blogging... on the occasion of (my son) Chris saying he's up and quitting altogether. My ot...

"A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an 'intellectual' -- find out how he feels about astrology."

So wrote Robert Heinlein. RedState mobilizes the quote in the context of excoriating beseiged blogger Jerome Armstrong. Commenters on my v...

Macondo/Aracataca.

The people of Aracataca, the hometown of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, had a vote on whether to change the town's name to Macondo, the name o...

"There are two major narratives in the world, the narrative of fundamentalism and the narrative of consumerism."

Do you watch that PBS show "Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason"? Edward Rothstein -- paid by the NYT to subject himself to such ordea...

Renegade publisher.

A great obit. Read it.

"Scalia twisted my words."

The Supreme Court doesn't cite too many scholarly works, so it's a thrill when one of yours is cited -- at least until you see your ...

Why not keep track of whether every child in the country is eating enough vegetables?

That's what they mean to do in England and Wales. In fact, the new database will track all sorts of "concerns" and developmen...

Audible Althouse #55.

The new podcast . Streamable here -- no iPod needed. But the sane thing to do is subscribe: This is a podcast about insanity -- about brea...

In the Heights.

Here are some exterior views from yesterday's architecture tour of University Heights. First, the Sigma Phi House (you remember the inte...

Joe Lieberman's website.

Go and click on the "get involved" button. Notice anything? It really is quite pathetic. (Via Kos .)

Do you recognize these faces?

Have you seen the movie ? Quite a trip! It's what "I Shouldn't Be Alive" would be with a larger budget and the most harrow...

Why is Althouse blogging at 5 a.m.?

It's a day about 5. I'm waiting for my 5 millionth visitor today.

Newsweek goes after Kos but if he says they do, he's paranoid.

Newsweek has a big article on Kos that starts off looking like a puff piece. He's listening to hummingbirds and finally getting that f...

"Islam's Ann Coulter."

An op-ed (by a rabbi) about Wafa Sultan (whom we talked about a few months ago, when she made a big splash): As I experienced the fervor s...

"Turn off your mind, relax, float downstream."

Luc Sante reviews Robert Greenfield's new biography of Timothy Leary: He was initially known as an expert on personality assessment, bu...

Inside the Sigma Phi House.

Hey, it's another architectural tour. Yes, it's a frat house -- an inhabited frat house -- but the place was designed by Louis Sulli...

5 million!

The Site Meter is getting awfully close to 5 million. That's pretty cool. But I'm not offering a prize for the 5 millionth visitor,...

"The car has broke down. The chicks have buttoned up their shirts and put their guns away. The midget has gone home."

It's Aaron Spelling Tribute Day over at Faster Than the World. Next time you make a reference to Tattoo yelling at some plane, think of ...

How I know that crossword solvers google.

I'm getting an immense amount of action on this old post , as the NYT puzzle from May 13th appears in other papers today. Funny that it...

"Pesto bong?"

Incomprehensible wedding gifts. My prediction, based on personal experience: The day will come when you'll want to sell your oversized ...

"And so I know now I'm on a different plane."

Byron York quotes Markos Moulitsas. Mickey Kaus piles on (amusingly). But let's look at the quote: This week has been a very interesti...

Michael Jackson onstage with Bob Dylan?

That's the rumor. Jackson is said to be in Kilkenny, Ireland, ready to do a cameo performance at Bob Dylan's concert there tonight....

"Boobs..."

"...hardly bombers." I love Daily News headlines, but, really, what's the suggestion here? That because these guys were such ...

I'll make nice to the kitty cats today.

I've been a little hard on the kitties lately -- with good reason . But it's Friday, and what the hell. Here I am, somewhere in the...

"Americans have a third fewer close friends and confidants than just two decades ago."

USAToday reports: In 1985, the average American had three people in whom to confide matters that were important to them, says a study in tod...

"A 58-year-old, slump-shouldered Queens genius."

Meet Steven Finkelstein , "an unlikely 'Casanova' who used the smarty-pants club Mensa to meet women and bully them into giving...

"Perhaps it's time to rethink the whole 'law school as default' mentality that infects so many otherwise sane young minds."

Says Cameron Stracher in a piece in Opinion Journal. Smart young people who want to do well but can't figure out exactly what they want...

A potato update.

A cat update.

You know, some folks like cats beyond all reason . Me, I was bitten by one yesterday. Readers said we want a photograph. I thought they mea...

"Jacob Weisberg is engaging in cynical manipulation of regional and class prejudice in order to enrich himself."

Language Log looks at "Bushisms." The linguistic expertise is appreciated -- go over there and read why it's "regional a...

"G.O.P. Decides to Embrace War as Issue."

What a strange turnaround ! Just a few weeks ago, some Republicans were openly fretting about the war in Iraq and its effect on their re-ele...

What Senators do for fun.

In an interview with GQ , Russ Feingold talks about Hillary Clinton, whom he traveled to Iraq with (along with John McCain): What was it lik...