The 2007 posts-of-the-month.

January: C'mon, guys, wear leggings! February: That polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo. March: I'm going to watch "An Inc...

Blogging the presidential campaign — month by month, 2007.

January: Analyzing the text of Hillary Clinton's announcement. February: "Wearing an overcoat but gloveless on a frigid morning, Mr...

Here's where I pick out all my favorite quotes from the things I've collected on this blog over the past year.

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Joe Biden o...

Happy Year's End.

I hope you had a good year. If not, it's over anyway. I thought I'd mark the occasion with three posts gathered from the things I...

I wave good-bye to a beautiful year.

Just a picture from back in April , which I'm seeing tonight as a frantically survey the past 12 months of posts to put together 3 year-...

"What one's sin is, means it's missing the mark. It's missing the bull's eye, the perfect point."

Mike Huckabee explains what he means when he says that gay people who do not abstain from sex are sinners. From today's "Meet the P...

Remembering the carrots.

After calling that last episode with me "The Forgotten Carrots Edition," Bloggingheads now has the explanation at the top of th...

"Is Gen. Petraeus Killing Kos?"

"Was the left-wing blogosphere always mainly about Iraq?... Maybe the whole blogosphere was about Iraq!" Traffic problems — noted ...

We never dreamed that a little girl might lie to get something she wanted.

The store Club Libby Lu gave a big prize — a trip for 4 to a Hannah Montana concert — to a 6-year-old girl for writing an essay that began:...

"Life spans measured in years don’t take into account how fast we live them."

Bernard Holland says , as he looks at the lives of great composers: Composing at the speed of life (forgive me), Schubert at 31 was like any...

"Does he have sex appeal?... Can you smell the English leather on this guy?"

"Does he have sex appeal? . . . Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man's shaving cre...

"Supporting anyone except your dad for President when your dad is running for President. Bad idea, Giuliani kiddies."

Bad ideas of 2007 — from the Daily News. That's #3 of 25.

"I think he would play the role that spouses have always played for presidents."

"He will not have a formal, official role, but just as presidents rely on wives, husbands, fathers, friends of long years, he will be m...

Notice anything terribly wrong with Hillary Clinton's answer to Wolf Blitzer's question?

"I really regret that anybody would try to politicize this tragedy. I personally knew Benazir Bhutto..." Huh? The question wasn...

Do you love a movie that everyone else hated?

In the first post of the day today, I condemned a movie about Heaven : This was an early CGI film that was enough to make me never want to s...

"Mike Huckabee is learning how it feels when people actually pay attention to what you're saying."

Huckabloopers.

"You may have seen that some Hillary Clinton 'sock puppets' were recently outed on a New Hampshire blog, to the campaign’s great embarrassment."

Thanks, Matt Bai , NYT Magazine writer who is now also blogging on the NYT website. I'm extremely interested in that story, which I miss...

"If he overidentifies with Sharpton, he looks like he’s only a black candidate."

"A black candidate doesn’t want to look like he’s only a black candidate.... A white candidate reaches out to a Sharpton and looks like...

Exiting through the door marked 2007.

The NYT Magazine has its annual "Lives They Lived" issue , with short essays on a wide range of individuals who died in the past y...

Bloggingheads! The Forgotten Carrots Edition!

It's me and Stephen Kaus. Topics: Covering the Bhutto assassination: NBC drops the ball (08:47) Would a second Clinton presidency offend...

You'll cry. You'll laugh.

The Death and Life of Ice Cream: (I love the comments over there : "dude.. i would of ate that.")

"When a fly lands on a ceiling, does it execute a barrel roll or an inside loop?"

Questions The Explainer never answered.

"We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen."

Al Qaeda claims credit for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. ADDED: "It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed ...

"Bhutto was fearless."

David Ignatius on Benazir Bhutto: I remember encountering her once when she was a graduate student at Oxford, shaking up the august and occa...

How dare you talk about Hillary's voice for an entire minute!

Greg Sergent is disgusted that a minute was spent analyzing a campaign ad on "Hardball" last night. The commentators found it not...

"The 10 Most Anti-Christian Movies of All Time."

From New York Magazine. Don't miss the film clip at #1, which is "Uh, NSFW, unless you work in Hell." (Via Feiler Faster .)

Great unknown musicians.

The 10 best of the year. No They Do is the all-robot musical collective led by musicologist and "future's Alan Lomax," XJ3. It...

"We welcome and accept Will Smith's statement that Hitler was a 'vicious killer.'"

Noted.

What various law types read in 2007.

Collected at Legal Times — including an entry by me. ADDED: You have to register to read it, so let me copy what I wrote: My favorite readi...

Why does Naomi Wolf regret working for Al Gore?

Was it because her advice that he wear "earth tones" and establish that he is an "Alpha Male" brought him and her ridicu...

"David Gregory Does Battle With Talking-Point Dispensing Robot."

Writes David Linkin (linked by Stephen Kaus ). He's talking about Hillary Clinton in a maddening exchange with David Gregory. What stru...

Shame on NBC News.

At 7:26 this morning, Central Time, I received a "breaking news" email from CNN, saying "Ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir B...

Benazir Bhutto has died.

Terrible news. Pakistan former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has died after a suicide attack, according to media reports. Geo TV quoted her ...

Trees, snow, moon — at 7:26 a.m.

Nothing subliminal here.

(Via Bloggingheads .)

"If you want to find out if someone's really a libertarian, ask him: Do you think children should be allowed to buy heroin from vending machines?"

"A real libertarian will answer: Only if the vending machines are privately owned." James Taranto retells an old joke (and then l...

"WaPo writer Keith Richburg's journalistic hand-job" on Al Sharpton.

TNR's Dayo Olopade graphically expresses displeasure at WaPo journalism.

Unserious.

I've been looking back over my 2007 archive and putting together some year-end posts as I've done in the past, and I ran across this...

Vlogging the alternative radio studio.

I'm passing the time, waiting for the show — described here — to go on: You should be able to listen to the show here ("A Public ...

A tiger escaped from its enclosure and roamed around the San Francisco Zoo preying on human beings.

Astounding. Imagine going to the zoo — on Christmas — and encountering a free-ranging Siberian tiger. Three men were severely mauled, and o...

The hangdog photo is bad, but "[w]hen the news is about your son actually hanging a dog...."

Great laugh line shoehorned into a WaPo article on bad photographs of candidates. But let's read the article, which displays that terri...

How to make patients think of the nurse as a doctor?

Have the nursing program give doctorate degrees and start calling the nurses "doctor"? [O]pponents... say a plethora of professio...

What was Hillary Clinton's experience as First Lady that might qualify her for the Presidency?

Patrick Healy writes an important piece in the NYT, and I urge you to read the whole thing. The first few paragraphs stress that Hillary Cl...

Christmas decorations, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and a radio alert.

I'll be on WORT radio today at noon Central Time, talking about Christmas decorations and the Constitution with Annie Laurie Gaylor of t...

The Christmas cat.

(No, I didn't get a cat for Christmas. I'm not allowed to own pets. That cat just found a warm spot on my car.)

Merry Christmas.

I hope you have a happy Christmas, if you're celebrating Christmas. Is anyone here not celebrating Christmas today? If so, is it because...

"I know it's the holidays but we hope people use some common sense when traveling."

Did the weather wreck your Christmas plans? Highways remained slippery for some holiday travelers Monday in the upper Midwest in the afterma...

It's Christmas Eve, and thus far the posts aren't looking too Christmasy."

So let's go back to the previously blogged Christmas Eves and republish the most Christmasy one from each year. 2004: First Encounter wi...

"What we do is try to inject a brief moment of wonder that helps wake them up from that rushed stupor. That’s the true holiday spirit, isn’t it?"

Shopdropping = planting some item of yours in with a store's merchandise. Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with ...

What's the bloggiest sentence ever written?

Can you come up with anything to beat this? Well, someone else read that post and used Google Reader's new "share" function to...

Masculine conundrum.

Is this a manly leg? (Via Wired , via Andrew Sullivan .) Originally, I wrote: Is this a manly arm? — a mistake that I caught by clicking to ...

"It's apparently endorsement season in the blogosphere."

Writes Dan Drezner , reflecting on Andrew Sullivan's endorsement of Ron Paul. (Note: For the Republican nomination. Sullivan endorsed ...

Let's take a closer look at Ron Paul.

Here 's the transcript of Ron Paul on "Meet the Press" today. He stimulates our thoughts, and he adds important dimension to t...