"Ah, the fabled G-spot. It was named in 1981 for the German gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg..."

The nerve of some gynecologists , getting up inside ladies' vaginas and spray painting their name in there. A question for the heterosex...

"Even a pat-down thorough enough to simulate foreplay, however, won’t protect us completely..."

"... not from a threat that sounds even more absurd than an underwear bomb and that is also more alarming: the butt bomb."

"Arctic air blast."

"40°." "Should we be freaking out?" Conversation overheard in the men's room at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar,...

At the Paint-Your-Window Café...

... there's a colorful edge.

Are Democrats "dropping like flies"?

Steve Benen questions a simile.

The power to hold detainees without trial.

Upheld by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: The appellate judges rejected the claim of Ghaleb Nassar Bihani, a Yemeni native who served as ...

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man who blew up Pan Am Flight 103, is still alive and freeing him looks more appalling than ever.

The Daily Beast directs our attention toward an airplane bombing that succeeded: Fifty-seven-year-old terrorist Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Meg...

Buzz Bissinger tries to write about Tiger Woods.

The Vanity Fair article has a fascinating Annie Liebowitz cover photograph of Tiger Woods's without a shirt — fascinating because the g...

At the Fish-and-Chips-Sandwich Café...

... we're open all night. Come in and chew the fat.

Morning coffee, afternoon coffee.

C-SPAN offers us transparency. Will Congress let us have it?

Or does it need those closed doors? There's an old saying: "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know...

"I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but I don't want to short-change Australia either."

Says Jana Rawlinson.

Is it really possible that the next Senator from Massachusetts...

... will be a Republican? The Democrat (state Attorney General Martha Coakley) is still ahead (in the race to replace the dead Kennedy), but...

France makes "psychological violence" a crime.

But don't get too worried. It's only a crime if you do it to your spouse. This will force verbal-aggressive types to go outside the...

In Austin, at the Texas state capitol...

... Meade pays homage to the man he once horrified Texans to call his favorite Texan... ... and I pay a third visit — here are my first an...

"I am debilitated because I cannot move. My life is my bed, my spot in the dining room where I read the newspaper, and from there I do not move."

"I am to blame for the condition that I am in. I deserve it; I sought it out. I picked up this damn cigarette." Among the last wor...

Thwarted by a federal judge in his effort to go on "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here," Rod Blagojevich is going to be on...

... "Celebrity Apprentice."

"The reason I started blogging about anime is because it is utterly inconsequential, and thus won’t attract the attention of readers who are earnest."

Says Steven Den Beste, commenting in a post about the breaking up of the 4 Horsemen of the Ablogalypse. Den Beste, along with Andrew Sulliv...

"If I were going to make up an alias, I wouldn't pick Rosenberg. I'd pick Jolie or Pitt."

"Do terrorists wear Manolo Blahniks? I can tell you Donna Karan does not make anything that hides a bomb.... I tried the tears; they di...

When a woman makes a statue, we don't say she sculpted it, do we?

I give a 1-minute lecture on that cowboy statue that's out in front of the Texas capitol building.

The men at the next table were talking about something.

We were having lunch in downtown Austin, and I wasn't really eavesdropping, but I liked the guys at the next table who were having an in...

At the Take-the-Bus Restaurant...

... you can talk to everybody, but watch your step.

That time Glenn Reynolds reacted to me with an "arrogant sneer and a coiled physicality."

And purportedly thought "Now get your fuckin' shinebox," according to this blog , which Glenn likes/pretends to like , but whi...

Brit Hume evangelizes Tiger Woods.

Key passage: The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith ...

Everybody's talking about that James Bond/dead tired photograph of Obama.

The Atlantic Wire has a good rundown of the commentary about that photo from the White House Flickr page. (They link to me and manage to in...

A nighttime walk in Austin, Texas.

At the Tabletop Café...

... keep the conversation going while I'm in transit.

Thanks to Google for the free WiFi gift.

Here at the Madison Airport, where — I might add — security was handled really well. It was better, more organized than before. People had t...

The Obama administration is still going to send Guantanamo detainees to Yemen.

But don't worry: "We are making sure that we don't do anything that's going to put Americans at risk."

"Damn, Obama looks like James Bond in this picture."

Says a commenter at the White House Flickr site. Is that what you see? Keep in mind that this is a picture the WH selected and had to have t...

Inappropriate beer commercial.

An oldie from YouTube. Count the inappropriatenesses... on your fingers if you can still see them:

"But Austin isn’t really Texas. It is the People’s Republic of Austin."

"In the seventies, it was a cheap and groovy little town, much smaller and less commercial than it is now. There was no Dell or Intel o...

Struggling not to laugh so much I wake up everyone in the house.

And I'm partly laughing out of shame for finding this so funny.

"[T]he Republicans, who predictably seized on the plot for political advantage by absurdly accusing Mr. Obama of being weak on national security."

I'm just noticing this NYT editorial from New Year's Day. It's not bad generally, but I just don't get the "absurdly....

"Attacking the pollsters is seldom a good sign."

Yes , but the outrage : Bad, bad Rasmussen!

"There were lots of demands on Karzai from people asking for Cabinet positions because they campaigned for him."

"This was the only way he could reward them and if parliament didn't approve them, it wasn't his fault. Very soon, Karzai will ...

The man who put the heads on the Pez dispenser.

Curtis Allina. A classic obituary , depicting a man you're only hearing about because he has died. He was 87. The heads went on the disp...

"Trust a pro."

Keith Richards really is a pro as becomes clear over the course of what seems to be only a humorously inept attempt to record a promo for MT...

At the Night Skiing Café...

... life is beautiful.

It's Palindrome Day!

01 02 2010.

The man who drew Muhammad wearing a bomb turban hid behind a bathroom door that an attacker struck repeatedly with an axe.

He survived because the bathroom was a fortified "safe room."

Another Drudgtaposition.

Drudge does commentary. You just have to figure out what he's trying to say with his juxtapositions — Drudgtapositions . Like this one ...

"I've never been in TIME Magazine. I don't need TIME Magazine."

An early rejection of mainstream media, from the movie "Don't Look Back" (which we watched again on New Year's Eve): This...

"Botox is becoming the new face of beauty and it’s unfortunate because it makes everybody look like Satan’s children."

Said Stevie Nicks , who had Botox and hated it: "For four long months, I looked like a different person. It almost brought down the who...

"How would you feel if your new boyfriend kept calling his ex?"

And his ex was Madonna. My theory, Kate: Madonna is more interesting than you. He called her because he wanted to talk to someone who had th...

Did you start the year/decade off well?

Or are you still trying to roll out of bed?

December, 2009 — Part 12 in a 12-part blog series.

1. "Drastic, mindboggingly expensive policy changes are proposed based on this science, making this potentially the biggest fraud in hi...

November, 2009 — Part 11 in a 12-part blog series.

1. "It's all too 'My Very First Beard - from Kenner!' It's not helping. I'm sorry! Baseball is just not sexy enough...

October, 2009 — Part 10 in a 12-part blog series.

1. "I think Moore is seriously motivated by Christianity.... Am I wrong to see Moore as an anti-Semite?" 2. "This whole thing...

September, 2009 — Part 9 in a 12-part blog series.

1. "Why not send people to Mars and just leave them there?" 2. The moral argument for ObamaCare the Democrats could see should not...

August, 2009 — Part 8 in a 12-part blog series.

1. "Commenting from a mountaintop: we are still sitting on the rock where we exchanged rings, and now we are married." 2. "Wh...

July, 2009 — Part 7 in a 12-part blog series.

1. What a scoop it would have been if that hand would have scooped David Brooks's scrotal sac! 2. "Y'all got 2 computers?!... ...

June, 2009 — Part 6 in a 12-part blog series.

1. "I was a caryatid for Frank Lloyd Wright." 2. 4 reasons why The National Review might have portrayed Sonia Sotomayor as the Bud...