Bush knows you know who he's talking about.

" Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals , as if some ingenious argument will persuade them the...

The Google... the internets...

Bush speaks.

Variations in airport opinion.

Woman: "Why do we have to take off our shoes?" Man: "They can waterboard me as far as I'm concerned."

What's with those 10% of black people who don't support Barack Obama?

Cinque Henderson explains: I disliked Obama almost instantly. I never believed the central premises of his autobiography or his campaign. He...

Today's year that blog forgot is...

1951.

I am not an online jackass.

I only scored 4 on this "Are You an Online Jackass?" quiz. In the last 30 days, I vlogged (4 points), and I visited MySpace (1 po...

Last post from Brooklyn.

Bags packed. I'll be very lucky if I don't get charged for going over the weight limit, even though I put everything heavy — i.e., b...

"Orwell said, 'I never wrote a decent word that wasn't motivated by a deep political feeling.'"

"I totally disagree with Orwell, who I admire," says Tom Wolfe. "I have never written a decent word that was dominated by po...

"Those aren't words. What does that mean? 'I'm sorry, I was wrong'?"

And for more ways to re-enjoy the legendary O'Reilly meltdown, here it is , where it more than belongs, enshrined in the "Top 10 An...

"Hi Peggy. This is Barack Obama. I'm calling to apologize on two fronts."

"One was you didn't get your question answered and I apologize.... Second apology is for using the word 'sweetie.' That...

I won't spoil it on the front page.

But spoil away in the comments: Do you approve of the final 2 for this year's "American Idol"?

"Never before has a thriving species been listed under the Environmental Species Act."

The polar bear is now listed as an threatened species. UPDATE: WSJ opinion here : The most pernicious element in the polar bear melodrama is...

I return to the old question of laptops in the classroom. Or: Why do law professors hate freedom?

In the comments here , XWL wondered why I hadn't blogged about this Ian Ayres' Freakonomics post about laptops, then quickly added, ...

Edwards endorses Obama.

Hot news.

"Terry McAuliffe's tour de force moment when he turned projectile nonsense into something approaching the sublime."

Josh Marshall loves this clip:

Are you in the mood to watch an HBO movie about the 2000 Florida recount?

Or are you troubled that the movie may be unfair to Democrats? Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state who served as the public fa...

"A goose was tapping on windows at the library on Audubon Parkway. The goose left."

The news from Erie , Pennsylvania, where maybe not that much happens.

"The NYT Should Embrace Their Inner Heroin Dealer."

Do you hear that, New York Times?

"Top 44 moments from the path to becoming #44."

I love this "highly biased, incomplete, and unfair list of classic moments from the 2008 presidential primaries." With lots of vi...

Thanks to all the commenters who kept up the conversation about the West Virginia primary long into the early morning hours.

I set up a post so you could talk while I went out to do a meetup with readers at The Wine Bar at 50 Henry Street . (You should go there if...

"A panic about the situation of the African American male raised into a truculent paranoid theology."

Leon Wieseltier reads Jeremiah Wright:

Today in 1968, blogged.

I continue blogging the past, and today's year — picked by a random number generator — is: The opening of the Paris peace talks Bobby Ke...

Primary night? Again?

Start the discussion without me. I've got to do something. ADDED: Hi. I'm back. The blogger meetup was tonight. Didn't you know...

Pun.

Fun. (Or did that belong on The Me Blog ?)

Is it a good or a bad sign when a university sees the need to hire a "Professor of Conservative Thought"?

This is the proposal for an endowment at the University of Colorado. Amusingly enough, the idea bugs liberals and conservatives: "Why ...

"Liberals, of all people, should avoid making the passive/active distinction [and] support the death penalty..."

... if it's really true — and it seems to be — that executions save lives. Jac explains : If you're a liberal (in the sense in which...

Robert Rauschenberg has died.

Links to obituaries to follow. Here 's an old post of mine about him, from back in 2004 : Robert Rauschenberg answers some questions fro...

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses..."

"... the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." So wrote Albert Ei...

1925 is today's year that blog forgot.

Blogging the past today, I note: The question whether women can be jurors. Playing jazz to the head-hunters. Snakes found in Ireland. "...

“Just wait ‘til we win like 80-20.”

80-20? Why not 90-10? This thing is doable!

Congress cracks down on flavored cigarettes to show it cares about children...

... and has to cut a swath around menthol to show it cares about black people. Or... wait ... is it supposed to show it cares about black pe...

"Offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking."

Interview gaffes. • Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" co...

The eternal anger of Bill O'Reilly.

NSFW. I love the extreme intensity of Bill losing it over a little phrase on the teleprompter he doesn't understand. By contrast, this ...

"I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all...."

The Top 5 Pre-Death Monologues in Film. With video clips. Some you've seen — we've all seen the one quoted above — but maybe some y...

Whatever you do, don't say "maintain" to Mayor Bloomberg.

(Via Gawker .) And let me just say that maybe this clip makes you think Mayor Bloomberg is nuts or at least unbalanced, but it makes me love...

I announce my much deeper plunge into the life of blogging: The Time That Blog Forgot.

It's a new blog designed to make up for the terrible feeling of retrospective loss I feel for all the years when there was no blogging....

I get a letter from Barack Obama.

NOTE: I've re-uploaded the video, and this should work now.

Ron Paul supporters plan "an embarrassing public revolt against" McCain for the Republican Convention.

Says Andrew Malcolm (via Memeorandum ). Interesting. And here 's Glenn Reynolds's review of Ron Paul's book "The Revoluti...

"It’s 3 a.m. The telephone rings. Another public safety crisis. A woman with a pageboy haircut picks up the phone. And hangs up."

"'Something about life and death,' she yawns. 'Not lakes and trees.'" David Blaska envisions the ad that would ta...

The spaniel-ears effect.

This is one of the things I might have been looking at here . Man, is that dog — a rare clumber? — depressed or what?

A cigarette vending machine that can perceive whether you're old enough to smoke?

Can this thing work? The Fujitaka company system compares facial characteristics including bone structure, sags and crow's feet against ...

"I suddenly felt very dizzy, as if I were heavily drunk. I thought I was seriously ill, then I looked around and saw my colleagues felt the same way."

The earthquake in China. 7.8. UPDATE: Reports now say that 7,600 people are dead and 900 students are trapped inside a collapsed school.

Some of us like to think the Muslim world would love President Obama.

Edward N. Luttwak is here to disabuse you of that notion: As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law ...

Does the U.N. have a duty to undertake a military intervention in Burma?

Matthew Lee explains the "responsibility to protect." Military intervention is the most extreme option, but there is a policy, ad...

The Althousity of Hope.

Mad pride.

It's a movement. While psychiatrists generally support the mad pride movement’s desire to speak openly, some have cautioned that a “pro ...

Can we justify invading Burma on humanitarian grounds?

A NYT op-ed from January 17, 1990.

"I hate the Brooklyn Museum."

Wrote Palladian in the comments to yesterday's post with Lincoln and the nude slave. They have wonderful collections ruined by ham-hand...

It's Mother's Day. Let's watch some mother movies.

I thought of "Mommie Dearest" and "Serial Mom."

It's the reality show where you take the really dopey dumb guys from other reality shows.

You know: Jason Castro from "American Idol," Mark Simmons from "Top Chef," and Erik Reichenback from "Survivor....

Are there better window boxes anywhere than in Brooklyn Heights?

These appear within one block on Columbia Heights just north of Pierrepont Street: I'm very impressed by the care taken arranging the pl...

Here's the post where I reach out to readers 2 ways.

1. I'm thinking of doing a farewell-to-Brooklyn meetup with readers. This will need to be in the next few days. You have to email me (us...

Could you wrestle the sensory input and intense emotions into the teaching moment about American slavery this is supposed to be?

I'm all for nude statues in museums, but check out this glamorous slave on display at the Brooklyn Museum: And see who's brooding in...

Michelle won't let Barack pick Hillary as VP.

Robert Novak says: The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she ...

5,000-year-old dancer.

A figure, found in a tomb from pre-dynastic Egypt. On display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

"There should be stringent laws, licensing laws, to make sure produce is only used in season and season only."

Gordon Ramsay.

Obama insinuated that McCain is senile, and the wily McCain took advantage.

Look at this , which I think CNN obtusely misheadlined: McCain's campaign reacted with outrage Thursday to Obama's remark that the s...

"I've been to 57 states."

Whoops! Who's losing it now? I love the way he pauses and really thinks before adding the "-seven." AND: Let's try to mak...

How is it that a picture of me...

... taken 27 years ago ... has come to represent The Law Student ?

Coming in out of the rain.

At the Empire Diner in Chelsea.

Vegetable music.

This is actually a whole YouTube genre. Music played with vegetables. I've been fascinated by music played on things other than musical ...

"He regurgitated in his plate of food when I asked him about it. So I knew there was some truth to the story."

For the annals of lie detection.

If John McCain said, 'I got the white vote, baby!' his candidacy would be over."

Peggy Noonan on Hillary. To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nati...

"But they've given a 22-year-old woman the legs and bottom of an 80-year-old."

Is some nefarious paparazzo photoshopping cellulite onto pictures of Mischa Barton's thighs? Here 's the picture. There's a who...

Does this statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. look too much like that statue of Saddam Hussein we pulled down in Baghdad?

WaPo reports: A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal...

Why bury trees?

Carbon sequestration! But wouldn't it be much better to bury paper — like all that newspaper and office paper that we've been wastin...

Things draftsmen think that aren't true but make cool drawings.

Let me recommend 2 exhibits at The Drawing Center in SoHo. First, there are these Frederick Kiesler drawings , exhibited on this curvy glas...

"Lots of Things Like This."

You've got only 2 more days to see "Lots of Things Like This," an exhibition of artworks that satisfy 3 criteria devised by D...

Abu Ayyab al-Masri.

Captured. UPDATE: Not.

"David Chalmers... admitted he loved some of the negative emotions like sadness, melancholy, anger and jealousy."

The philosophy professor goes against the grain at the happiness conference.

Yesterday's paper.

“Eggheads and African-Americans."

A memorable phrase, a classic encounter: Man, if my head looked like Paul Begala's, I would not use the term "eggheads." But a...

"Does it not grate on you that Mrs. Clinton's most staunch supporter, most important backer, has been me, Rush Limbaugh...?"

I love this hilarious, multi-layered flight of humor — in the feminist style: Ladies, doesn't it all sound too familiar? Once again, a...

"Well, here we are on top of the world, and we have arrived at this peak to stay there forever."

"There is, of course, a thing called history, but history is something unpleasant that happens to other people. We are comfortably outs...

Okay, guys — put on your pants!

Conservatives are (supposedly) happier than liberals and (supposedly) scientists have discovered why.

Here 's the article (and tell me if the reason the scientists have discovered isn't the same thing that left-wing ideology tells us)...

Let's judge Hillary Clinton's executive aptitude by the campaign she managed.

Karen Tumulty at Time has a great list of 5 mistakes Clinton made. Let me focus on #2: Clinton picked people for her team primarily for the...

Hillary Clinton for VP?

There's a lot of talk about this exchange CHARLES GIBSON: Is there any discussion of what kind of an exit strategy there would be? GEORG...

Hillary Clinton's best argument to the superdelegates.

Look at these Electoral College maps.

"I wish you'd stay in Brooklyn, as Madison is such a PC backwater."

Wrote commenter Kirby Olson in my post with the photograph of a small protest march , taken from my 9th floor window at Brooklyn Law School....

A new Bloggingheads!

It's me and Jeralyn Merritt again. Topics: Did the mayor of Gary, IN try to sabotage Hillary’s victory? (08:34) Jeralyn makes the case ...

"No justice. No peace."

Passing under my Brooklyn Law School office window: a march protesting the acquittal of the police detectives in the Sean Bell shooting. The...

Toast!

Pick Obama: He's taller.

Plouffe to the superdelegates: We played by the rules, set by you, the D.N.C. members, and campaigned as hard as we could, in as many places...

McCain's judges.

John McCain gave a speech on judicial appointments yesterday, and it made me want to go back to a conference call he did with bloggers — inc...