The Sarah Palin craze continues.

There are already over 350 comments on that last post. It seems as though you're ravenous for Sarah Palin posts. This is just a test. Wo...

"Stop prying into other people's vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?"

The insane obsession with Sarah Palin's pregnancy rages on. This will all go down in the annals of feminism, people. So think before you...

"Where does the story come from that I don't like beer? Come on, man."

Barack Obama on "60 Minutes," fending off a Steve Kroft crack about how he's gone out of his way to seem like the common man. ...

"If people with Down syndrome ruled the world."

From the National Association for Down Syndrome: Affection, hugging and caring for others would make a big comeback.... All people would be ...

"You're quite close to death/Because you're addicted to meth."

See more Kristin Chenoweth videos at Funny or Die This is a parody of the TV show "Intervention," and we were just talking about ...

"McCain gave us... a former beauty queen as the person who could be asked to take over the White House in an emergency if anything happened to [him]."

Writes Andrew Sullivan. So we get to pick whatever "former" activity of a candidate seems least presidential and call them that? D...

Madonna's first concert.

Very cool. (Via Metachat .) Now, there is a men-in-shorts issue here, but I'm going to give this one the okay, because it's clearly...

"Troopergate" requires a "disambiguation" page in Wikipedia.

Isn't it strange that the scandal being pushed against Sarah Palin has the same moniker as a scandal that dogged Bill Clinton and anot...

Bush and Cheney will stay away from the GOP convention because of Hurricane Gustav.

Reports CNN. Other changes to the convention are needed: "I wouldn't call it a nightmare, but it is a very perplexing challenge,...

Mouth-corner spittle, in HDTV.

Amanda Hess (via Instapundit ) was watching Obama looking nice and "crispy" on HDTV and then, suddenly, there was "a small c...

Why are art critics so mean to artists?

A sensitive reader of art criticism -- "close to tears after reading yet another disrespectful, humiliating passage in this week’s pap...

How did I and "groin" get into this article about tattoos?

Just one of those mysteries I need to solve because I have a Google alert on my name. And no, it doesn't have to do with my old post --...

Republicans "have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W."

Writes Maureen Dowd. Dan Quayle was a Senator from Indiana . I guess that looks like "the West" when you're looking from New ...

5 teenagers buried alive for wanting to choose their own husband.

Defended, in Pakistan: "These are centuries-old traditions, and I will continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents...

Sarah Palin, the neo-feminist, who says "quit whining."

American Princess loves Sarah Palin. She's looking at this video clip, where Sarah Palin deals with the question of whether Hillary Cli...

"So McCain picked a woman? Huh? I guess he figured he needed to pick a minority 'cause he's going up against Obama..."

Jackie and Dunlap are sublime here: Don't miss the proposed Obama commercial at 2:56. Via Fausta's Blog , which also has the details...

"This is the mother of all storms, and I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like it."

Says Mayor C. Ray Nagin , looking at Hurricane Gustav and ordering the evacuation of the City of New Orleans.

The wild speculation that Sarah Palin is not the real mother of the new baby she presents as her own.

Some people are shocked that a Daily Kos diarist, one "Inky 99," would air doubts about this. ADDED: If you want to read the com...

What the nonfiction writer promises the reader.

Watch the whole diavlog , based on Richard Preston's book "Panic in Level 4." I especially loved this segment about a geneti...

Those 100 things to do before you die.

Here's the whole list , printed on the occasion of the death of Dave Freeman, one of the authors of "100 Things to Do Before You Di...

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."

The 100 best first lines from novels... or so says American Book Review . The "truly" is the best part, right? Ah, I'm thinkin...

"Is the Mothers of Invention’s exuberant 'Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance' a song of joy or a song of comfort?"

"Is Meat Loaf’s 'Bat Out of Hell' a love song, or does its cautionary motorcycle-crash conclusion make it a song of knowledge?...

Does the Palin pick make it more or less in Hillary's interest for McCain to win?

A fascinating conundrum. Hillary ostensibly supports Obama, but presumably she still wants to be President. So we might think she secretly w...

"Will Sarah Palin help McCain's campaign?"

Instapundit has a poll , and guess what the results are? Here's my rival poll: If right-leaning voters think Palin was a great choice an...

So I did find a new Obama ad this morning.

On the Politico , which says that the ad shows "how careful they're now playing the Palin selection." Hey! THE VIDEO YOU ARE T...

Why don't I post more Obama ads?

I love to post and discuss interesting political ads, but I end up posting mostly McCain ads. One reason is that the McCain campaign has don...

Obama, Biden, McCain, Palin — not one Baby Boomer.

Ruth Anne observes. She -- not a boomer -- is pleased. Back in April, I wrote: I had been thinking that if Obama wins, it will mean that we...

"The analogy would be if John Lennon had died not in 1980 but in 1965."

Loss.

If Alaska were a city, it would be...

Fort Worth. *** States ranked by population. Cities ranked by population.

What people search for when they search for Sarah Palin.

Based on the last few thousand visitors to my blog: Enlarge this image. See current Site Meter page (where you can click on the links and ...

What I said about Sarah Palin on June 12th.

I'd forgotten about this. (Warning: I say "pro-abortion" at one point when I -- obviously -- mean "pro-life.") ADDED...

Is there anything other than Sarah Palin you'd like to talk about?

I guess it's been wall-to-wall Palin today, so here's a chance to raise some new subjects? Is there something I should be talking ab...

Are you having trouble understanding Sarah Palin's hairdo?

I hear some of the lefty bloggers are having trouble with it, even daring to mock it. Let me help you we a couple reference photos: Get it? ...

Keep talking about Sarah Palin.

I'm opening a new post, because there are already almost 200 comments on the last Sarah Palin post. I'm watching CNN, where Wolf Bli...

Sarah Palin, the VP pick! [ADDED: And the live-blog and profusion of comments continue here.]

10:25: Thought you'd like to see a picture. The handsome guy is her husband (and Bill Clinton's chief competition on the face of thi...

Live-blogging the McCain VP announcement. UPDATE: "MCCAIN PICKS SARAH PALIN."

8:26: I don't know what it says about me, but I got up this morning and didn't think about the McCain VP announcement on my own. It ...

Some late-night calm.

Nicole Belle embarrasses herself with a childishly written, dishonest smear.

Detailed in the 7:51 update to this post . UPDATE: One of my readers tried to defend me over there (at Crooks and Liars) and got instantly b...

One more night of convention blogging. The Invesco Field extravaganza.

6:35 Central Time. I tuned in in time to see the end of Will.i.am's "Yes We Can," but no we can't perform that song in a b...

If there's a VP leak tonight, is it "political malpractice" and "evidence that the McCain campaign is a war room"?

The Obama camp says it is.

John McCain approves another devastating attack.

I'm reeling from this one.

"McCain at first seemed happy enough to do the interview. But his mood quickly soured."

Yeah, guess why. Note that what Time provides here is "an excerpt," so it's not as if the conversation started out this curt....

By request: the McCain VP open thread.

Who will he pick? Who should he pick? Who would be terrible?

What is it? (Who is it?)

It's part of a larger work. Guess before clicking on this link (to something amazing). And don't spoil in the comments.

"If Bill Clinton could run this year, would he be elected?"

A poll.

"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?"

Pogo has a political/etiquette question: This weekend I will be hosting two couples. One is very far left, the other libertarian right. Me? ...

Barack Obama — "He's a Vulcan, no doubt about it. Now the question arises, do we want a Vulcan for president? Are we ready for a Vulcan president?"

Lawgiver says it in the comments to this post , commenting on this amazing NYT article (that I've now linked to 3 times this morning).

Barack Obama has not flip-flopped or betrayed his lefty fans. You need to understand: He's a "visionary minimalist."

Cass R. Sunstein offers up a useful term — so that everyone can always understand everything about Barack Obama: Of course Obama is a progr...

"Pure violence and stupidity."

A description of the movie "Babylon A.D.," provided by its director, Mathieu Kassovitz. ADDED: Don't give him too much credit....

Barack Obama, the law student, was not like you other law students.

From the same Jodi Kantor piece discussed in the previous post, I had to break out these law school nuggets. “I thought of him much more as...

Obama has "developed a self-discipline so complete... that he has established dominion over not only what he does but also how he feels."

Jodi Kantor writes in a long NYT piece about Obama's superhuman transcendence of emotion for the sake of political triumph: He does not...

"You know, I am a believer in … in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job. Uh, and I think that..."

"… if I were seriously to consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in t...

"Did the Corps fix the levees?, Is my house going to flood again?... Am I going to have to go through all this again?"

Anxiety in New Orleans. ADDED: Storm preparation... for the GOP convention.

McCain will reveal his VP pick at 11 ET today [CORRECTION: not today, Friday].

The NYT reports. Perfect timing, tearing us away from the Democratic Convention just as Obama is about to deliver his oration to the multit...

Continue the conversation about night 3 of the convention here.

The previous post is approaching 200 comments, at which point the additional comments are hard to view, so let's start a new one.

Emailed CNN "Breaking News": "Barack Obama wins Democratic Party's presidential nomination after Hillary Clinton's motion on the convention floor."

So.... what the hell? I'm sitting here, eating my arugula salad and zucchini "pasta," catching up on last night's "D...