"A Loser's History: George Tenet's Sniveling Self-Justifying New Book Is a Disgrace."

Harsh words, from Christopher Hitchens : [T]he only really interesting question is why the president did not fire this vain and useless pers...

Right now, the tiny oak leaves look like flowers.

They're pink and less than a half inch long. Look closer, and they seem like sugar-coated candy: Who can picture them all brown and leat...

The pill that increases women's sex drive and decreases their appetite. It's a sex + diet pill!

Yeah, they're trying to invent it. The Edinburgh team, led by Professor Robert Millar, have been looking at the properties Type 2 Gonado...

Fake looking nature.

To me, these flowers look like they were quickly painted by someone who wasn't even trying to make them look realistic. Yet there they a...

Something I love about Chief Justice Roberts.

Based on my experience writing the previous post: He makes his opinions incredibly easy to edit down to a short form.

The new Supreme Court cases, especially the new negative Commerce Clause case.

SCOTUSblog gives us a first glimpse: The Supreme Court, in a major victory for Microsoft Corp.... Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T... In a second...

"There were all these kids dancing and sweating and actually standing in line and paying money to be physically active."

When gym class becomes a disco video game , our kids won't have to be fat anymore.

Tag clouds from the Democratic debate.

These seem meaningful , especially if you're into woozy, intuitive impressionism. (Nice, clear PDF here .) Make what you will of the par...

"Crow was ... insistent, poking Rove in the chest and pinching his arm."

Fred Barnes has Karl Rove's perspective on that encounter with Laurie David and Sheryl Crow (which we talked about last week here ). He...

"Bromide Obama, filled with grand but usually evasive eloquence.... Then, in a blink, ... small and concrete... like a community organizer..."

I didn't link to this nicely written column by David Brooks a few days ago because it was behind the TimesSelect wall, but here it is r...

It's a delicate beginning.

The situation is hairy: Tenuous: Is it evil ? Is it narcissistic?

"Floordrobe."

You know: A form of storage for clothing which requires no hangers, drawers, doors or effort. Simply drop on the floor and you have a floord...

Jon Stewart on journalism, "The Daily Show," and blogs.

Bill Moyers tells Jon Stewart that for all his protestations that "The Daily Show" is not journalism, it's "acting like...

Carbon neutral...

... nonsense .

More money is flooding into the presidential campaigns just as money is mattering less and less.

This is from Matt Bai (who has a book coming out called "The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers and the Battle to Remake Democratic Poli...

What accounts for the keen interest in this story of the M.I.T. dean fired 28 years after faking her credentials?

I always check the most emailed list on the NYT website. It's a source of humor and dismay for me. Day after day, I see the proof that w...

It's like this.

I mean.... Oh.... I give up.... It is spring, right? A glimmer ...

Alec Baldwin has no idea how to get out of a jam.

Alessandra Stanley watched Alec Baldwin on "The View." He was trying to patch things up after that terrible publicity over his en...

"Moderate Ann Althouse waited for the transcript and called it a win for Bill Richardson."

Slate's blog rounder upper Michael Weiss , perhaps a little to eager to disrespect Bill Richardson, reads this post of mine as signifyin...

Why does Judge Kozinski hate blogs? (And does he, really?)

Everyone's blogging about Judge Kozinski saying -- joking? -- that he hates blogs: ERIC GOLDMAN: So but what about blogs? . . . JUDGE A...

Should bloggers do these conference calls with candidates?

I'm in the middle of writing a very important blog post, which is to say, a blog post that I'm inspired to write, and we're comi...

"The happiness of this Country depend much upon the deliberations of the federal Convention which is now sitting."

"It, however, can only lay the foundation — the community at large must raise the edifice." So wrote George Washington in 1787 , f...

Finishing the debate in transcript form, I give the win to Richardson.

I think I got about two thirds of the way through the debate last night. Here 's what I managed to write. I was just about to watch the ...

More antagonism toward guestblogging candidates.

Beltway Blogroll has a comprehensive post about Hillary Clinton's "guestblogging" at Firedoglake. It notes the Sleuth piece t...

Audible Althouse #83.

It's a podcast. I'm waiting for the Democratic candidates to start their debate. Also: migraines and a dream about a bird that hove...

Laugh about it, shout about it, when you've got to choose, every way you look at this you lose.

Ooh, I've still got the song "Mrs. Robinson" running through my head. It was playing on the radio as I drove off to work today...

"What can one say, when three pecks can be made into an issue in the land of the Kama Sutra?"

Richard Gere is in trouble in India. UPDATE: Gere was on "The Daily Show" last night, and Jon Stewart asked him about it. He didn...

"Carbon credits" can be quite fake.

A Financial Times investigation found. It was always pretty obvious -- wasn't it? -- that these things seem fraudulent, but we accepted...

Big debate tomorrow. [I mean: today!]

I make a note to simulblog.

Oral argument in the campaign finance case.

Here 's Linda Greenhouse's write up on the Supreme Court argument in the Wisconsin Right to Life case, which is about the provision ...

"Since some indeterminable hour between the final dousing of the pyre at The World Trade Center...."

"... and the breaking of what Sen. Barack Obama has aptly termed '9/11 fever,' it has been profoundly and disturbingly evident ...

How incompetent is Harry Reid?

According to David Broder: Hailed by his staff as "a strong leader who speaks his mind in direct fashion," Reid is assuredly not a...

The candidate is not "guestblogging." The blog is publishing a press release.

Please tell me no one is stupid enough to be impressed that Firedoglake has got Hillary Clinton to "guestblog" over there. I'...