"Can you believe this Reverend Wright guy?" Bill O'Reilly asks Hillary Clinton.

In a clip from the show that airs tonight. (Set your TiVo.) UPDATE: I liked the part when he told her that Obama's a nice guy, but she...

Things not to think about during a Beckett play.

1. What to put on the conlaw exam. 2. ... 3. ... ADDED: Here 's the link I had in the title before. And her e's a link that includes...

What is the "sex toy controversy" at the UW Law School?

The Badger Herald tells the story with clickable pictures of the fliers that were posted at the Law School. The enlarged pictures are NSFW,...

I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday in the early evening.

And there was that one guy skateboarding across: Oh! I was ravenous when I got to the other side: I craved sustenance: And I found a comfort...

Arkansas Lawprof Richard J. Peltz is suing two students and the Black Law Student Association.

Inside Higher Ed reports. (Via Instapundit .) Peltz charges them with defamation, saying that his comments about affirmative action were us...

It's not a recession.

It's just not: Economy grows by only 0.6 percent in 1st quarter of 2008 The bruised economy limped through the first quarter of this yea...

Thoughts on reading the transcript of Barack Obama's press conference about Jeremiah Wright.

Let's read the transcript of Barack Obama's press conference about Jeremiah Wright. I'll make some excerpts and comments, conce...

"At home, I lay down and sank into a not-unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination."

"In a dreamlike state I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play ...

Neil Diamond on "American Idol."

I'm just catching up with the TiVo'd show. (As I said, I was walking over the Brooklyn Bridge. Just an after work walk. Midway throu...

Ruth Anne wants a palate cleanser.

Here: Sorry. I was out walking over the Brooklyn Bridge.

"The rooms are described as being neat and tidy. There are no windows."

"The three children who lived in the cellar, 19-year-old Kerstin and her two brothers aged 18 and five, had never seen daylight, and gr...

Did Obama "denounce Wright"?

That's what the headline at the Politico says. But read the body of the post by Ben Smith : "I have spent my entire adult life tryi...

Jeremiah Wright may drive us into the arms of Barack Obama.

Jeremiah Wright is "angry at Barack Obama for trying to be disingenuous," said Newt Gingrich. Wright is outraged that Obama tried...

George Jones, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Louis Armstrong, Van Morrison...

Those are the artists Bob Dylan has played most often on "Theme Time Radio Hour" — from a nice, long set of lists of things from...

Biobigotry.

Some animals really piss Natalie Angier off. And she's looking into her bigotry problem: Our proneness to biobigotry, experts said, ari...

"I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted," said the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz.

"Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a...

It's not that I didn't see it. It's that I didn't see it.

It's hard being a feminist, you know. You know everything, and there are so many things you know, and then it's like you don't k...

"We will be looking for anti-racist trainings offered here in the Bay Area."

Oops. What a hilarious screw up! Not that we needed our comic relief of the day on a racial theme. (Via Instapundit and Protein Wisdom .)

Obama is letting Wright overpower him.

Dana Milbank says that Wright's speech today may have doomed the Obama candidacy. He summarizes the Q&A session pithily: His claim ...

Live-streaming Madonna's "Hard Candy."

My son Christopher Althouse Cohen — a longtime Madonna fan — emails: Madonna just recently put her whole new album, which comes out tomorrow...

Why Christopher Hitchens tries never to wear a tie.

It's "the advantage that it so easily confers on anyone who goes berserk on you." There you are, with a ready-made noose alrea...

If you think I'm supposed to feel bad about...

... this . You don't know my history with it .

Jimmy Carter defends his Hamas trip...

... and pushes his 23d book. Much as I'm outraged by his Hamas trip, I'm also outraged that he's published 23 books. Who does h...

Jeramiah Wright is not lying low.

Speaking at the National Press Club: ... Wright said that political opponents of Senator Obama were exploiting the fact that the style of pr...

It's not unconstitutional to make voters show a photo ID.

The Supreme Court rules, 6-3, in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board : The voter ID ruling may turn out to be a significant victory fo...

Bloom...

... in your own quirky way.

"As the Ghost of a Person dead these 250 Years and more, who had seen enough of Bedlam..."

"... I may tell you than an Imbalance of Humours was ever at the Root of a Madman’s Distemper." Sir Archy visits the comments sect...

Going to the dump to shoot rats.

= Megan McArdle's "weirdest date."

What is the Instapundit formula?

If it's so easy , why don't more people do it? Acephalous has an excuse — I mean other than his absence of a head — he doesn't ...

A new week buds.

Happy Monday. AND: Please, please, please feel free to amuse me by Photoshopping my photographs the way Chip Ahoy did yesterday . I am still...

"When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web."

Well, at least I know that 's not about me. Because I'm not young.

How to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds.

How To Fold A T-Shirt In 2 Seconds Perfect! Don't try to learn it from watching the video. It's methodically explained here , and af...

Obama needs to "stop citing the world-historical greatness of his own speeches as if [he] were his own personal Chris Matthews."

Mickey Kaus wants to see some fake humility.

"I have to restore myself to not looking ridiculous."

A quote from Courtney Love, talking (only!) about getting her face redone after screwing it up with plastic surgery. From an article about b...

Hillary Clinton is a schoolyard bully.

Says Michael Goodwin: It's a gang-girl taunt when she tells a big rally she will go anywhere, anytime for a throwdown. She offers to [de...

Let's read an excerpt from Justice Scalia's book "Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges."

Last night, on "60 Minutes," Justice Scalia talked about his new book — written with legal writing whiz Bryan Garner — "Makin...

Scalia on "60 Minutes."

Jeralyn aptly identifies the highlights: torture is not punishment when you are trying to get information out of someone Fetuses are not per...

Commenter of the day? The nominees are: Meade and Chip Ahoy.

1. Meade : After Sheepman complained that the Dylanesque song about Obama "goes on for a few verses too many," Meade said: Dude, ...

A modern place.

Here's a big fisheye overview of the "modern life" section of the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Go here for a full size version of ...

If McCain doesn't win, it will mean that no one born in the 1930s will ever have been President.

Did that era not breed leaders? I had been thinking that if Obama wins, it will mean that we are done with Baby Boomer Presidents, after hav...

3 dogs in a baby carriage.

At Starbucks on Montague Street. AND: Knows he's cutest:

"I don't get too high when I'm high, and I don't get too low when I'm low."

That's Barack Obama, on "Fox News Sunday," responding to the prompt: "What have you learned about running for President? ...

Why an article about how the French love Obama has me watching a clip from "Full Metal Jacket."

1. I see on Memeorandum — my favorite starting point for finding bloggable things — that the French love Obama: "Obamania Sweeps Franc...

Happy Sunday.

"If you have the least bit of curiosity about electronics or electronic music, or if you've ever just wanted to rip your toys apart..."

... then you want to go to the Bent Festival . "You look over a circuit and you think: What is going on here? What are they doing? ...

"What Not to Wear" is not the kind of reality show I would normally watch.

It's a "how-to" reality show, to use the Television Without Pity categories . The reality shows I enjoy are nearly all in the ...

"Hamas has said they want Barack Obama to win."

"The reason for that is his policy. He wants to negotiate with the terrorist-funding, nuclear-aspiring, holocaust-denying, Israel-threa...

Late night thoughts of...

... tulips.

"Just the two of us going for 90 minutes asking and answering questions."

"We'll set whatever rules seem fair." Hillary Clinton acts all cool about debating. Well played! Calling Obama a chicken for ...

"The arrest was scary and intimidating to bloggers but also empowering."

"It made bloggers know that their blogs are influential, and now they feel more of a responsibility and take their blogs more seriously...

Another floral palate-cleanser.

That is intended to expunge any political nastiness that may linger from the previous post or any other post put up today.

"Obama, can this really be your friend..."

Great play on " Oh, mama , can this really be the end" in this Dylanesque riff on Obama's Jeremiah Wright problem. Sorry for a...

Have you ever had a restaurant meal so horrifically bad...

... that you acquired a phobia about eating in restaurants?

I'm going to put up another flower picture to symbolize that I'm done talking about disturbing things for a while and I'm ready to do Saturday.

Looks prickly , doesn't it? Ominous! Yet... yellow....

"Manipulative. Shameful. Race-baiting."

"Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Bara...