Al Gore jokes, then quips about the Supreme Court.

On "The Tonight Show": Former Vice President Al Gore took a swipe at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday, referencin...

"I used to be bi-curious, but now I've just gone all the way to becoming 'bi.'"

Says Glenn Reynolds. I approve! (And despite my long experience, I have no idea what to do about that problem. It never works that way for...

Hanging in there... for -- what is it? -- 30 years?

I believe I have discovered the last surviving "Hang in There, Baby!" poster. Do you remember these things? They used to be all ov...

People seem to be enjoying the new complexity to this Kramer character.

Sales soar on the new "Seinfeld" DVD. Still, no one could think it was a deliberate publicity stunt. No. No. Life's not that...

Survey.

Please take this survey about blogs. I did, and it's a research project that I think is worthy.

Who can sue to force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases?

Here 's the Linda Greenhouse account of yesterday's oral argument in the global warming case, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protect...

"We're going to stay in Iraq to get the job done so long as the government wants us there."

Said President Bush today , responding to what he called "a lot of speculation that these reports in Washington mean there's going ...

The economic analysis of cosmetic medicine.

Here 's a big article about how all sorts of doctors are moving into cosmetic medicine -- where the patient forks out the money up front...

Bob Dylan meets Ricky Gervais.

And Bob's the interviewer. Perfect.

"Webb... has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator."

Says George Will , who, deploying a triple-D alliteration to express his dismay, opines that "Washington has a way of quickly accultura...

"Only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations."

"More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some f...

It's an uphill slog.

Here in Madison, Wisconsin, as the semester winds to a close: It looks a little grim and foreboding from here: But it is kind of nicely warm...

The Bush-Webb encounter.

I wonder who reported this as verbatim dialogue (via Memeorandum ): “How’s your boy?” Bush asked, referring to Webb’s son, a Marine serving...

"It's good to be on top."

The ad agency celebrates itself with an ad that everyone will see and talk about. You got a problem with that? In a stab at paying tribute...

Are you buying the Borat broke up Pam's marriage story?

I'm not. Too PR-y.

News flash: Sad people look sad.

Experts explain.

Catchphrases, caught and uncaught.

100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases -- via Throwing Things -- currently arranged in alphabetical order.... Well, so, have your fun: ...

"So how about that Kramer?"

"The way he just says stuff." (Via Throwing Things via Hypertext .)

"Sorry, haters, God is not finished with me yet."

So said Alcee Hastings , responding to the news that he will not chair the House Intelligence Committee.

Do you have "every right" to create a new word and "deploy" it as you see fit?

Neologisms are fine, says Stephen Bainbridge . I agree. I played the neologist -- -ist! -- early on in this post -- twice! -- when I said ...

Why does Andrew Sullivan keep talking about me without linking to me?

See the update on this post . It's getting ridiculous. I consider it a gross breach of blogging ethics. UPDATE: And he doesn't tip.

"Christianist."

With all this talk of the word "Christianist," I thought I'd do a Lexis/Nexis search to see how often it appears. In the Law R...

Global Post Barometer.

It's the Global Post Barometer , and right now it's showing the U.S. trending negative, and the Islamists trending positive. ADDED: ...

My brain as a hypodermic needle. Your brain as an international airport.

A new book: [W]omen talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the ...

Are tall people better because they are tall...

... or tall because they are better? Let me rephrase that: Is the relative success of taller people the result of the favoritism they recei...

"Americans know who he is, and have pretty much decided they don't like him."

John Kerry finishes last in a likability poll. Possibly a botched poll. (Via Memeorandum .)

"Pay is a complicated thing."

Linda Greenhouse elegantly explains a difficult Supreme Court case about the lingering effects of long-ago job discrimination: Is each new ...

150 things to love about Madison.

A nice list. Let me highlight a few things: UW-Madison students . A continuously cycled transfusion of new blood for the city. Plus, move-i...

The end of "Air America" in Madison.

I'd say: if they can't make it here , they can't make it anywhere. Mike Malloy reading long passages from Orwell's "198...

"A 'quintessential Madison case' of animal rights vs. the university."

A local contracts case with a nice free speech dimension: Dane County judge said Monday that the law is on the side of animal-rights activi...

Why not engage with me instead of trying to make me into your enemy?

Despite yesterday's forbearance , I feel I have to respond to this post of Andrew Sullivan's. I didn't say I'd resist forev...

"Maybe the next frontier in the academic battle against all varieties of oppression should be 'drunk studies.'"

Cathy Young riffs , a propos of "Fat Studies": Why not an academic program championing the idea that "alcohol abuse" is ...

"And then they went to the 20th-year reunion and saw that somebody else who was 10 times less smart was making much more money."

Hey, it's front page news in the NYT that some people make a lot less money than others who begin their careers with worse credentials ...

Resisting...

I am resisting getting drawn into intrablogospherical squabbles. I hope you appreciate it! After that long, sole post this morning, I feel I...

So much for moderation.

After writing a post on Saturday , expressing my dismay at seeing Andrew Sullivan showing disrespect toward Mormons (and denying it), I did ...

"I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her. And she's right in the bedroom."

???!!!

Keisha and Mary.

The 16-year-old actress Keisha Castle-Hughes , who plays the Virgin Mary in the new movie "The Nativity Story," is pregnant. More ...

"Can Romney endure the media exposure that awaits him? What if his great-great grandfather was a bigamist? And what about that underwear?"

And that's from the so-called Moderate Voice . Steel yourself folks. There's going to be a lot of this sort of thing in the coming ...

Fat studies.

Why not major in Fat Studies? Proponents of fat studies see it as the sister subject — and it is most often women promoting the study, many ...

Cool people can't go out on Saturday anymore.

Because the uncool people are out. “In the old days, Saturday was the destination night for chic New Yorkers headed to Studio 54 at its mos...

The new "blog magazine" trend.

Stephen Bainbridge is back from his blogging hiatus and has revamped his bloggage into "a blog magazine in three sections." The p...

The Top 100 Cover Songs.

I love Retrocrush , and I'm just finishing the 99th podcast , which is about the top 25 of the Top 100 Cover Songs. If you haven't h...

"'Strawberry Fields Forever' builds ... into a psychedelic swirl ... of 'Hello Goodbye,' 'Baby You're a Rich Man,' 'Penny Lane' and Piggies.''"

Are you listening to the new Beatles album "Love," the soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil show? I am. "I had fresh ears -- ...

"I mean no disrespect."

Says Andrew Sullivan , chided by a Mormon for his post about Mormon undergarments. Here 's the post. Do you buy "I mean no disrespe...

"But he's quiet, introspective, even paranoid. He's a very wound-up guy. But I don't think he's a racist."

The real Kramer reminds us that Michael Richards is not the real Kramer. "I know the public is smart enough to realize that Michael Ri...

"The central principle of spin: However bad the trouble you're in, you can generally make the other side look worse."

From a description of Christopher Buckley's book "Thank You for Smoking," from a list of the 5 best books about PR .

A man who saved us so much time.

H. Donald Wilson, the man who thought up Lexis-Nexis, back in 1969, has died: A turning point for the acceptance of Lexis came in the early ...

Why the wine ads don't mention the benefits of resveratrol.

They don't want to litigate: In 1991, some aggressive winemakers sought to trumpet the health benefits of wine, but they were quickly sh...

Audible Althouse #72.

It's a new podcast! It's about: how I don't want to be called "Ann," what it means to be "Conservative Blogress ...

O.J. on eBay.

There's a selling frenzy on of O.J. Simpson's canceled book "If I Did It." Here's a current auction, with the bid now...

Doesn't Althouse watch any reality shows anymore?

Now that TV seems to be the subject of the day -- TV and leftover squirrelage (≈ squism) -- you may be thinking: Doesn't Althouse watch ...

"I found myself saying 'these girls don't look all that thin...'"

A Television Without Pity comment on the HBO documentary "Thin," about a treatment center for anorexics: [O]ne of the most distur...

Is "Seinfeld" ruined? (My advice to Jerry.)

David Bernstein has started a conversation over at Volokh Conspiracy about whether Michael Richards' racist rant makes his Kramer chara...

Looking back on the Thanksgiving squirrel.

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. What did you have? Squirrel, because it's not only different, it also happens to be the only type of...

Holiday.

The commenters on the previous post claim to be suffering from withdrawal on account of low Althouse bloggage today, so let me give you anot...

Oh, my! There he is!

It's the Thanksgiving Squirrel! Keep safe everyone. Boil your meat well.

The Thanksgiving fish.

Godspeed on your trek to Grandmother's house! May the fish be crispy and the squirrel succulent!

Hasn't it all been said before?

No. Everything is actually amazingly new: [D]on't people accidentally repeat each other's sentences all the time? It seems to me tha...

Why this strange preference for a digital camera with AA batteries?

Glenn Reynolds has a big post about digital cameras with this line: Ann Althouse has this small Sony , and a look at her blog will illustra...

"A minor show-business miracle took place."

Virginia Heffernan admires the genuine spontaneity of Michael Richards' apology for his (also spontaneous) comedy club rant. [T]he acto...