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Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men...

It's Audible Althouse, #76. On New Year's Eve, and I'm reviewing the year in the life of the blog and trying to explain what th...

The two most useful health stories of the year.

1. This one , explaining why your brain will be sharper if you stay a bit hungry. Maybe you've been trying to lose weight, but feeling t...

Have some Psapp.

I've been listening to Psapp . I love when musicians play objects that are not musical instruments. Many years ago, I saw the Incredible...

"When he was the Naked Guy, he was completely sane."

The NYT Magazine has its end-of-the-year set of articles about various people who died in the past year. The one that caught my eye was the...

The divas of neuroscience.

The NYT has a big article about Daniel Levitin , who studies the effect of music on the brain. Read the whole thing if you're interested...

Death TV.

The last two nights of television were Death TV. On Friday, talking heads talked for hours about the hanging of Saddam which we could watch ...

"Several Democratic strategists last week urged Clinton to unleash a 'charisma offensive'..."

Is that even something she can do?

A year in the life of the blog.

This is a New Year's Eve eve tradition -- see? I did it last year -- to select one blog post from each month. What is the basis for the...

"Then, with his eyes wide open, no stutter or choke in his throat, he said his final words cursing the Americans and the Persians."

Marc Santora writes a vivid description of Saddam Hussein's last moments. I believe the full video of the hanging can be seen on the we...

I love this new moderation!

I've switched to moderating comments on Blogger. Forced by annoying circumstance... but it turns out to be saving me an immense amount o...

Are we having Fund yet?

Dan Drezner, having encountered the giant to-do about my experience inside an exceedingly right-wing Liberty Fund conference, makes some gen...

Should judges accept amicus briefs from former judges?

Here's a conspicuous rejection: A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which will s...

"It’s like the suffocating rubber clown suit begins to dissolve."

David Lynch explains Transcendental Meditation. He's into it. Is it going to change his films? “You don’t have to suffer to show suffer...

The exclusion of African Americans from "the social, communal and intimate cultural life of white Americans."

Harvard sociology professor Orlando Patterson calls this "The Last Race Problem" ( TimesSelect link ): [A]ccompanying [the integr...

"That I could feel pity for him struck the Iraqis with whom I talked as evidence of a profound moral corruption."

John Burns on Saddam Hussein: The man who stepped into the court had the demeanor of a condemned man, his eyes swiveling left, then right, h...

The mature-woman porn genre.

Eh... The NYT is covering it , so I'm flagging it for you. Maybe you're interested in the 50-year-old "administrative assistant...

Do you worry more about dancing or the kind of people who worry about dancing?

Dad tries to write an essay about a middle school talent show "without sounding like a prig." He sounds like a prig: They writhe ...

"If you take a cold bath in pure libertarianism... it's horrifying. It's not a world you could want to live in."

So says Mark Schmitt about 14 minutes into the new Bloggingheads episode (with Jonathan Chait). And I'm not just linking to this becaus...

The creepy death watch...

... for Saddam Hussein. UPDATE: I've been watching the cable news stations, mainly Larry King, and it is quite something. "You'...

Moderating comments.

If you want to know why I've started moderating comments, it has nothing to do with the Reason Magazine attack. I'm up to fending t...

When divas attack, Part 2.

Virginia Postrel seems to approve of her colleague's attack on me. It's just a short post. I can't tell how she feels about gov...

Here's the post where I take on Ron Bailey of Reason Magazine.

Ron Bailey has put up a long attack on me on the Reason Magazine blog. It's his version of what happened at the Liberty Fund colloquium...

A benevolent law plays out unfairly in real life. Surprised?

Here 's a story about how statutory law is forcing Old Greenwich, Connecticut to oust a family who has been operating a coffee stand for...

Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane Moore.

Two women who tried to kill Gerald Ford. Must we look at them again? No, but we want to anyway: Although the two would-be killers' root...

Edwards.

He said he would say he was running that then he did . Do I need to post about stuff like this? A news thing happened. Ah, what the hell. Th...

21 favorite dishes, eaten in Madison this year.

The Isthmus has a nice list. Let me see which ones I've had: Cocoliquot -- Braised short ribs Framed by velvety smoked potato purée, th...

New light on the Nixon-Ford relationship.

Bob Woodward reveals information he characterizes as showing that Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were closer friends than we'd thought: ...

"Local singer loses dog while in Germany."

Just checking the morning headlines. What if that 's the most exciting news of the day? It would be the best day in the history of the w...

Schnappi.

Das kleine Krokodil: (Via Metafilter .)

Oh, noooo! I'm in the future!

Oh! How could it happen!!! It's the year 2066!!! If only I had voted for John Kerry , maybe none of this would have happened! ADDED: Sip...

The Postal Service versus The Postal Service.

I love amicable legal settlements. This one is perfectly charming : In 2004, the United States Postal Service sent the band a cease and desi...

In a glitzy but filtered place.

I'm here at my car dealer's getting a glitch in the window fixed. Yesterday, I got in my car -- an Audi TT Coupe -- and saw that the...

The Daily News was hilariously paraphrasing.

I can't believe people think Ford actually said "Drop Dead" to New York City.

"Hatred does not leave space for a person to be fair and it will blind your vision and close all doors of thinking."

In his farewell letter, Saddam calls on Iraqis "not to hate": [T]he letter says: "Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrific...

"Joe, you're 23.... Can you be expert in anything?"

Hugh Hewitt grills Joseph Rago, that (surprisingly young) guy who put down bloggers in the Wall Street Journal the other day. Hugh rakes h...

Ben Stein hates Borat.

Let's see why. I should say first -- and before reading Stein's comments -- that I saw the movie a few weeks ago. Why didn't I ...

Unfinished.

I'm sorting through all my CDs, making five piles in preparation for loading them into the computer so I can fill up a new iPod, and we ...

About that tainted federalism.

On Christmas, Orin Kerr weighed in on what I said about federalism on Bloggingheads . Now, two more Volokh Conspirators have taken on the s...

He told them they were losers for being there.

So they essentially told him he was a loser for being there. [Bad link fixed. Sorry.] ADDED: Some people are saying this picture is not wha...

"How long do you think it will take before they make a James Brown biopic?"

I said yesterday. Answer: here .

Cinematic, but real.

Is this photograph -- by Akintunde Akinleye -- too beautiful to illustrate this story?

"Our long national nightmare is over."

I woke up to the long-familiar words in the familar voice of our long-lived former President, Gerald Ford. NPR was reporting what I already ...