Joe Biden is on "The Daily Show" tonight, and Jon Stewart confronts him with his dreadful quote about Barack Obama: "I mean, ...
"You sound like Cher after she's gone to the dentist," Simon says to a woman who is trying to follow in her mother's foots...
This is a California idea . If I lived there and faced this ban, I'd buy my lightbulbs in another state. It's just too horrible to l...
So says Baseball Crank , who calls himself "a pro-life Reaganite conservative." His reasons: 1. We Need To Win The War.... 2. We N...
... now that I've switched to New Blogger? (I'd appreciate some help, with a very clear explanation. I know it has something to do w...
Everyone's talking about the interview Biden gave to the NY Observer. But I can't get through to it right now. Drudge is quoting ...
Tattoos . And then there are the things you do to yourself that you can't hide with a shirt. Here 's a website devoted to bad tatto...
Run for your lives!
David Lat defends his obsession with divas: We will not apologize for having a weakness for divas. We have loved divas for our entire life,...
Now that I've converted to New Blogger, I can add labels to my posts. I could even go back and add labels to old posts. But what's t...
The #1 movie at the box office has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (i.e., not one good review). That's got to be a record. The next fou...
Linda Hirshman responds to me and Mark Schmitt on Bloggingheads.
Ah! We're in the South tonight, where -- chances are! -- we'll find the best singers. We're in Birmingham, home of Ruben Studdar...
Yes, I know, I was a fool to click the button to switch to "new Blogger" in the middle of the day. I have a big blog to transfer, ...
The Himalayan Times reports (yeah, I'm getting my news about Sacha Baron Cohen from Nepal!): Dovale Glickman plans to sue the Golden Gl...
... on Bloggingheads ! Topics: Ann's rock-star aura of coolness Mark wants outrage over income inequality Hillary Clinton calculates a c...
From bad chompers to bad hair. Watch out for the NSFW expletives. I saw that the other day, half forgot it, then played it again today and l...
It's just one of a number of unusual things . And what do "My Head is Spinning," "Now, Stand Back For Your Own Safety!,”...
Dentist Larry Rosenthal has had it with relationship guru author Ellen Fein: "If she had a life, she wouldn't be harassing him,...
Slate's Tim Noah has introduced a new regular feature called "The Obama Messiah Watch," devoted to "gratuitously adoring...
Yes, we need judges who dare to tell the administration to quit waving the rules about in a showy fashion. I know it's awfully late to ...
Oh, for the love of Daffy! I hope it's only the British press -- in some incomprehensible British eccentricity -- that's covering th...
This is a front-page "political memo" from Robin Toner. Today, many political strategists say women no longer have to be so defen...
Arthur Godfrey ! You're quoting Arthur Godfrey ?! Well, Governor Huckabee wins the prize for least hip candidate in the '08 race. T...
Linda Hirshman editorializes in the Washington Post. She interviewed some woman about Hillary Clinton: I had such mixed feelings listening ...
Oh, you've waited so long, podcast fans... if I still have podcast fans. This is just a podcast about trying to revive the joy of podca...
I start recording a vlog, just as a way to psyche myself up to do a podcast, and though I mean to talk about blogposts, in my podcast style,...
Michael Pollan writes about how we got so twisted up about nourishing ourselves (as opposed to eating). He pinpoints the start of the probl...
Actually, I think it's pretty cute: Yeah, she sings badly, but she never said she could sing well, and bad singing is an American (Idol)...
I thought he was withdrawing from the political fray, but apparently, he was redeploying. Here he is , botching up a storm. The long natio...
Some superheroes leap tall buildings with a single bound. Barack Obana enters your space and organizes your thoughts without revealing anyt...
"My mother was a backup singer for Abba. They were good folks.... [In Chicago,] I discovered I was black, and I have remained so ever s...
I'm watching Hillary Clinton doing her town hall meeting in Des Moines , Iowa. A man -- Representative Leonard Boswell -- is introducing...
Here's the peace march that took place today at about 1 p.m. on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This clip shows the whole length of ...
Intriguing, no?
Discussed here .
1. People kind of hate real estate agents. 2. Maybe you really don't have to save that much for your retirement. 3. A developmentally di...
Here 's a story about how Spain is standardizing clothing sizes for women "as part of a government drive to ease pressure on young ...
... than the mountain lion.
NYT film critic Manohla Dargis writes about the movie "Hounddog," saying something that resonates with me: “Hounddog” and the med...
Peter Singer has a NYT op-ed about the "Ashley Treatment" (which we discussed recently here ). The idea is to restrict the girl...
You know you can't resist the sexy, ultraviolet glow .
The two men pose in front of a painting of Thurgood Marshall: Click on the (terrific) picture to enlarge it. Can you read the body language...
I love this collection of newspaper cartoons from 1937, portraying Franklin Roosevelt's aggressive view of executive power. (via Instap...
Oh, who's to blame? • Bush schadenfreude . Partisan pleasure in George Bush's pain dates to the anguish of the contested 2000 electi...
Bob Wright and Mickey Kaus talk about that on Bloggingheads in a segment that begins with Mickey calling John Kerry a "terminal doofus...
Dick Cheney faces down Wolf Blitzer: BLITZER: Here's what Jim Webb, Senator from Virginia, said in his Democratic response last night. H...
That sounds like the alarmism of a religious fundamentalist, but hostility to scientific research comes from the progressive side when the ...
Yes, they're in NY, but they don't look any more urbane/hip/sophisticated than the people in all those other cities. They're all...
We don't have the joke-botching Senator to kick around anymore.
New ethics charges against Duke lacrosse team prosecutor, Mike Nifong.
I like this device in the NYT that lets you search for words in the text of all of President Bush's State of the Union addresses and di...
So read the note from Dick Cheney, translated for the jury by Scooter Libby's lawyer Ted Wells, paraphrased by Michael Isikoff: The vic...
Eugene Volokh has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about how bizarrely hard it is to get a date with a dental hygienist in the state of ...
The movie "Hounddog" -- about which such a stir was kicked up -- is a dog : "Hounddog" is from the overheated and overac...
You're not one of these people who watched "American Idol" and not the State of the Union... Are you?.... Because obviously yo...
So reads the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages , writing about Cougar, a musical group with a "post-rock's tone" and "a ped...
Says Melinda Doolittle, auditioning for "American Idol." She's a background singer, taking a chance, stepping forward, and the...
The State of the Union. ADDED: "How'r'ya doin'" our President says, turning to Nancy Pelosi. He begins by taking credi...
Pick a young and pretty one.
"... I've always resisted the consolation industry, the people who show up with Kleenex after plane crashes, or hold 'post-abor...
Is there any other way to look at it?
Did you watch the announcement live? I did. Poor Salma Hayek was devastated that "Volver" didn't get a Best Foreign Language F...
That's the hilarious teaser on the home page of the Washington Post, leading to this article . The effort to "humanize" Clinto...
It's considered an obscenity: The "U.S.A." some of the students were chanting stands for a three-word insult, an unsporting ac...
