I mean, really. Deep down inside. Don't lie. UPDATE: A FOX News poll shows 51% of Americans think Hillary Clinton is prepared to be Pr...

I mean, really. Deep down inside. Don't lie. UPDATE: A FOX News poll shows 51% of Americans think Hillary Clinton is prepared to be Pr...
What are you going to do on the last day in August, here in Madison, Wisconsin? Get started on the reading out at the end of a pier, with La...
Ever go to a restaurant and know that something is wrong with the food -- for example, that it was cooked in rancid oil -- but you eat it an...
Andrew Rosenthal asks: Student protesters helped drive Lyndon Johnson — in so many ways a powerful, progressive president — out of office be...
They're just getting around to the name "John" after all these years?
Oh no! "She became a prima donna," said one insider. "Being on 'The Apprentice' went to her head. She was no longer f...
That would be UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone at UW Marching Band boot camp (as described by a young tuba player): It was day two o...
Mark Green, the Republican candidate for governor has to somehow divest his campaign of $468,000: The state Elections Board today ordered ...
In Turkey, they're giving schoolkids a book full of Western stories touched up to make characters like Pinocchio, Huckleberry Finn, an...
Jeff Jacoby has a column in the Boston Globe railing about the way "diversity dogmatists" have imposed requirement on school text...
The challenge -- designing a "jet set" outfit for yourself -- was rather unfair, since the men got stuck designing men's cloth...
Long shadows at 5 o'clock on Block 200. I'm looking down from high atop MMoCA : The students are back in Madison, and nearly everyon...
David Lat -- late of UnderneathTheir Robes , later of Wonkette -- is back, with a new blog project called Above the Law . And he thinks I...
That and the salad eating.
Styling for serious sincerity without crossing the line into seriosity. It's quite the challenge. But why pick on Condi? She's fash...
You wake up and look at the clock and see it's really early. What's the earliest you're willing to interpret as time to get up a...
I'm listening to the interview with Judge Posner on the Glenn & Helen Show podcast. He's got a new book, "Not a Suicide Pa...
Isn't this where we will have to end up? The solution is to make the money through advertising , the same solution that we've alread...
The NYT has a front-page article about women's prayer groups in Syria. The girls at the madrasa say that by plunging more deeply into t...
Michiko Kakutani reviews Jonathan Franzen's new memoir -- "The Discomfort Zone" -- and seems rather horrified to gaze upon th...
The conviction of Judith Scruggs -- whose son killed himself -- was overturned yesterday. The charge was putting her child at risk by creat...
John Hawkins, worried about the progress Rudy Giuliani is making toward the presidency, spells out the reasons a conservative should oppos...
"We are going to sue and we hope that this teaches people a lesson. Also, Barbie is 46 years old, she should be respected!" So sai...
Reading Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons," I was amused to run across this description of a man wearing shorts. (At page 9...
Larverna! The caterpillars! In Sweden. Scroll through the pictures . Very dramatic and disturbing... but artistic.
The DNA doesn't match in the Jon Benet Ramsey case. UPDATE: Charges dropped . Why didn't they test the DNA before they went public ...
Says Samuel Alito in this long interview . (Via Howard Bashma n.) About the confirmation process: Self-doubt, he said, was a constant compan...
Don't you? But the oldest person in the world just died , and she was only 116. The new oldest person is also 116, and you've got t...
Niall Ferguson asks how the response to "8/27" -- the liquid bomb plot -- would have differed from the response to 9/11: From an ...
Oooohh... that illustration.... we're still cringing over here....
Natascha Kampusch will not reveal the whole story of her 8 years of captivity: [Wolfgang] Priklopil "was not my lord, although he want...
So you wouldn't want to read a big book of Elvis interviews, quips Louis Menand , who's saying a big book of Dylan interviews isn...
Yahoo News reports that Matt Stone -- one of the two "South Park" creators -- says that marines guarding Saddam Hussein have forc...
The Emmy show gets off to a spectacularly bad beginning with a prerecorded comedy sketch. We see Conan O'Brien on a plane, asked by a fl...
Just an old, old stuffed animal that resides chez Althouse.
What would you do if some neo-Nazis were demonstrating in your city? Go shopping and hope that they'd play to an empty house? That's...
Wikiality. There's a co-buzzword -- "truthiness" -- which I do know, but I don't like the phenomenon of co-buzzwords. If ...
So Anthony Rickey signs off. Scroll down for advice to law student bloggers and some links to new 1L blogs. Are you an incoming 1L? Are you...
Oprah Winfrey builds a $40 million school for poor girls in South Africa, then goes there and interviews the applicants, and to let them kn...
Writes Michael Isikoff in Newsweek , revealing that the source was Richard Armitage. ...Armitage was a member of the administration's sm...
Says Fox correspondent Steve Centanni, just released from captivity along with cameraman Olaf Wiig. In a telephone interview , he tells of h...
The Austrian girl held captive for 8 years , since the age of 10, kept a diary. Will she publish it? Imagine the rich offers she is hearing ...
But I didn't know they were trying to get us to smile for the camera . (Via Metafilter .)
Did you watch Episode 1 of the new season of "Real Time with Bill Maher" last night? I hope you didn't, because it was Friday ...
Yeah. Really. ADDED: The first comment is laugh-out-loud funny. And I'd just like to say that worse than not letting your dog walk is no...
Are we fat because we're prosperous ? I've been assuming the "obesity epidemic" -- hmmm, what if it were contagious? -- is...
I know some readers come to the blog and don't see the new posts -- at least not unless they hit "reload." This happens to me ...
The Seventh Circuit has a new opinion today -- Toeller v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections ( PDF ) -- dealing with an issue we talked abo...
You may have noticed that the new BloggingHeads episode is called "Tornado Watch Edition." You can see me reacting to the insane ...
Okay, picture this. You move to a new city, and you want to set up internet service in your apartment. The most reputable seeming service pr...
Here it is. Topics and times: Sloppy cases make bad law (09:13) Pluto gets the ax (04:48) Have Democrats lost the stem cell issue? (04:56) ...
Entertainment Weekly has a big cover story on "Project Runway." I'm thinking you might need to subscribe to actually go to it ...
David Savage writes about the school integration case that's pending in the Supreme Court. Parents have challenged programs that take a...
The NYT has an editorial about the controversy that has boiled up connecting Judge Anna Diggs Taylor to the ACLU, the party she summarily ha...
Japanese censors back away from their initial view that a poster of naked, pregnant Britney Spears is "overly stimulating." You ...
Here 's news of an advance in stem cell research which threatens to destroy the political issue elaborately built on the old technology ...
Did you agree with the outcome tonight on "Project Runway"? I was going to do a very detailed post on tonight's show, like las...