Homecoming Saturday.

The UW Marching Band began playing at 7 a.m. this morning. Insistent drumming and trumpeting permeates the neighborhood. I love the national...

Ron Howard does a really cool pro-Obama thing.

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I am shocked at the substandard ethics displayed by The New Yorker's blogger George Packer.

This New Yorker blogger , George Packer, names me and slams me, but doesn't link, so there's no way for readers to see the context. ...

"PITTSBURGH MUTILATION INCIDENT A FAKE, according to police. Advantage: Ann Althouse and Michelle Malkin!"

Writes Glenn Reynolds , linking back to his post from last night, where he said that I was "joining the crowd suspecting a hoax." ...

WaPo on "racial attitudes" in Wisconsin.

Jeez, they really made Wisconsinites look like a bunch of hicks! IN THE COMMENTS: Original George said: A clown making balloon-animals. Big-...

Police say Ashley Todd has confessed to faking the story that an enraged black man carved a "B" for Barack into her face.

She will be charged for filing a fake report. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard ... said Todd said on Friday she wasn't sure if it was a ...

Who in the McCain campaign got paid $22,800 for 2 weeks of work?

Sarah Palin's makeup artist. That's from the NYT "Caucus" blog, where the first commenter notes the URL: "pains-makeu...

Charles Krauthammer will not be joining the "motley crew" of "wet-fingered conservatives" who are flipping to Obama.

Krauthammer sees what they're doing! Now that they see Barack Obama is going to win, they don't want to be "left out in the co...

"To my friends who supported Nader in 2000: have you discerned the subtle differences between Bush and Gore yet?"

From a post by (my son) Jac that's mainly about the band Polydream -- with some nice free downloads. The drummer, Brit, along with Jac,...

Another reason to stick to Blogger.

Look what happened to Patterico.

The tiny house, where 2 adults live in 100 square feet...

... and somehow it looks hip and unsqualid .... at least in that video clip. What's it really like? They show it with one slim, mild-man...

"We make shifts, change shifts and sleep on alternate days. We have to make shifts otherwise it won't work."

Polyandry -- in India, a tradition and an economic strategy. "To run our families we have to do this, overcome the hurdles as well and...

What Rush Limbaugh had to say about Barack Obama's trip to Hawaii.

I listen to Rush Limbaugh frequently and often enjoy the show, but he was at his worst yesterday, inanely purporting to expose Barack Obama ...

"Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor at The New Republic."

And by "literary," we mean that he endorses political candidates and says things like "when he picked Sarah Palin, he told t...

What was my original reaction to other reports that turned out to be hoaxes?

Let me answer a couple questions asked by commenters in the previous pos t, the post that expresses doubt about the report -- filed by Ashle...

Looks hoaxy to me.

Come on, people. First, verify. I've seen the photograph , and, quite aside from the backwards "B" -- does the surveillance c...

Roger Ebert apologizes for reviewing the first 8 minutes of a movie.

Bleh! Apologies! Defend yourself, man. Walking out is an important form of judgment.

"Even as I try to move on with my life, I still find it necessary to take one more stand and fight."

One wonders how, exactly, Crystal Mangum goes about finding things necessary.

A charming dinosaur.

Epidexipteryx.

"A sad day for New York’s democracy"?

So Bloomberg got his way.

Should this woman go to prison for hacking her husband to death?

Is that a crime? "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry" ... She has not yet been formally cha...

Did you know there's another debate tonight?

It's the third party debate , but only Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin are showing up. No Bob Barr or Cynthia McKinney. Quick, can you nam...

Image of an RNC mailer used by the Obama campaign to raise money.

What do you think is more effective, the RNC's mailer or the Obama campaign's fund-raising based on it? ADDED: As for me, personally...

"There are very many amongst the Fair Sex who consider the Choice of a Shoe with perhaps greater Care than they would a Candidate on Election Day."

Our most highly esteemed ghost commenter, Sir Archy, made an appearance, here , in the very early hours of the morning. I reprint his words ...

"A flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works.”

Greenspan says oops.

"A humiliated, decimated GOP that rejuvenates and rebuilds around the principles of limited government, free markets, and rugged individualism..."

"... is really the only chance for voters to possibly get a real choice in federal elections down the road." Radley Balko longs f...

"We're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him."

"Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right." When is the press going t...

Help me understand baseball uniforms.

Years ago -- in the 1970s -- I used to watch baseball on a little TV, and I thought the players looked great. Last night, I checked out a li...

"Obama pals around with hippies."

Bill Ayers is "the pussiest terrorist," according to Jackie and Dunlap : (So many great lines in this new episode of Red State Upd...

"The R.N.C. cleverly used the party committee's money to avoid the liability that would have occurred if campaigns funds were used."

Said campaign finance expert Kenneth Gross about that $150,ooo the Republican National Committee spent on clothes and accessories for Sarah...

It's too cold for people to sit outside at State Street Brats.

But it was very pretty passing by just as the Backstreet Boys were singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to open the World Series. So...

"It's a negative intensity" between John McCain and Sarah Palin.

As witnessed and characterized by NBC's Chuck Todd: Is he blaming her? Is she blaming him? "I can't emphasize enough the odd bo...

I love Blogger!

You may have noticed that the comments box now appears at the bottom of the post page, looking very spiffy and making reading a comments thr...

How outrageous would it be for a professor to eat during class?

Today, I was so busy that just as I was leaving to go to class (at 3:30), I realized I'd forgotten to eat the sandwich I'd brought i...

Hey, California voters. Let's talk about how to vote on the 12 propositions you've got on the ballot.

No, I haven't personally studied this, but I trust my son Christopher, who lives in L.A. He emails: California might not be a swing stat...

Mark Steyn is "beginning to enjoy the kinky frisson of" Sarah Palin's shoes.

He says so here . Photo essay of shoes here . To me, the shoes don't look expensive enough. Meanwhile, here 's a good view of the w...

The musical speech of Sarah Palin.

Via Metafilter , where billtron says: "I love contrasting this Palin video with the Obama 'Yes We Can' that was circulating ab...

"Beware the long arm of Butt-Head."

A Code Pink lady tries to make a "citizen's arrest" of Karl Rove: That sent me looking for the great old "Citizen's...

Rush Limbaugh tripped all over himself yesterday, talking about Colin Powell.

From the transcript of yesterday's Rush Limbaugh show: Isn't this, by the way, the Colin Powell who was first appointed to a big job...

Nina Totenberg thinks Ted Stevens will be convicted.

Listen to the last line of her report.

"The best Sarah Palin look-alikes."

Wow. Aw. Unfair. Oh, no! Oh, noooooo! (Why was I not informed of this?) ADDED: Start here to get explanations of who these people are, not...

Do you RNC campaign donors mind having spent $150,000 for Sarah Palin's wardrobe and $4,716.49 for her hair and makeup?

I assume you don't. She suddenly needed to look perfect for numerous high-profile appearances. How could she possibly have paid for all...

“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives."

I'm just watching this video after watching "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" on "Nova": As one of the commenters o...

"Al the Shoesalesman Gets a Tax Cut."

Nicely done ad and website with easy to use calculator -- not that I believed the number I was given. ADDED: This post is red meat lobster...

"Is that what that is, the presidential race?"

Ted Nugent comments on the presidential race: I thought it was the fuckin' gong show. If it wasn't for Sarah Palin, I'd move to ...

"The Lawyers Who May Run America."

A very substantial ABA Journal cover story , with lots of names named, for McCain and for Obama . And here's the cover (not sure how th...

"Joe D'oh Puts O in 'Crisis' Mode."

NY Post headline. "Mark my words," Biden told donors at a Seattle fund-raiser Sunday night. "It will not be six months before...

Mid-autumn Madison doorstep.

Apple-eating time.

Our ratty friend was thoroughly comfortable in that position.

Did Sarah Palin really call Obama "Barack the Wealth Spender"?

Is CNN reporting it wrong or is it the case that Palin cannot be trusted with phrase-turning? It should be "Barack the Wealth Spreader...

Joe the Journalist.

Where's the love for this Joe?

"Has Sarah Palin 'gone rogue'?"

Asks John Dickerson.

What is it about moving pictures, music, and voice-over that takes a charming idea straight to hell?

I've blogged the "Yes We Carve" Obama pumpkin before, but that was at the still photography stage. Here's the video: Poss...

A legislative scheme to overcome the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty for child rape.

Jac thinks he may have discovered one: So, the Kennedy decision was based on various factors, but the main one was "evolving standards...

Some celebrities figure out how to do the celebrities-in-politics thing exactly right.

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People are waiting in line for hours to vote in Florida.

Where voting started today. *** And Obama's not coming to Madison. Yeah, I didn't see much point to it. He's already got Madis...

Nebraska backtracks from its "safe haven" law that had parent abandoning not just babies, but older kids.

You'll have to drop off the kid in its first 3 days. The government is happy to accept your cute little adoptable babies, but you'r...

Did Sarah Palin just come out in support of the federal marriage amendment?

She says: "[I]n my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Cons...

"While we Brits slumped, hung-over, on benches with coffee and Sunday papers, US mothers were getting down and dirty in the sandpit."

"'Good job!' they cried at each misshapen mud pie." Janice Turner does not like American-style alpha-momism. Lisa Belkin ...

Eddie Adcock plays the banjo while undergoing brain surgery.

A perfectly sensible thing to do: "During the brain-implantation stage of the surgery, he was kept conscious in order to be able to pl...

"There are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution -- try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up."

Says Justice Clarence Thomas. Of course, I don't believe that. Do you? Really? Does Thomas? Really? He says this: As important as our ...

"The worst bitch in the world" is dead.

He called himself that -- Mr. Blackwell .

"Politics in a democracy are always 'vulgar' — since democracy is rule by the 'vulgus,' the common people, the crowd."

Writes William Kristol , rankling at Peggy Noonan's "In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgariza...

"Not only did you murder your victim by cutting his throat and stabbing him but you cut him up, cooked him and ate part of him."

Said the judge , sentencing Anthony Morley to a minimum of 30 years in prison. What do you have to do in Britain to get a life sentence?

"Obambulate."

Wordsmith presents the first in a series of "five words that appear to have been coined after this year's presidential candidates....

How did Sarah Palin get picked for VP?

In The New Yorker, Jane Mayer offers an account of what happened, beginning in blogdom: In February, 2007, Adam Brickley..., a self-describe...