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... amuses liberals sometimes.
At a news conference today, after the release of a 9-month Pentagon study. He said it was a “matter of urgency” that the lame-duck Senate v...
The ratings are up for "Sarah Palin's Alaska." Oh, that's so sad for the people who exulted last week when the ratings we...
"... then I think we should look at their budget," said Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, a member of the House Appropriations Committee...
James Taranto reacts to the inflammatory assertion that "Mark Kirk Re-Segregates the Senate." It's true that "of the fou...
I've got the podcast of today's show, where he's reading from this blog post of mine : And let me invite Rush to go on Bloggingh...
DSM-5 eliminates narcissism as an official personality disorder. The conflict is nowhere near as amusingly ironic as my post title or the he...
I'm told (via email). I don't listen until the podcast comes out. Anyone know what he said? UPDATE: I listen to the podcast here .
"Then all of a sudden you realize you are not in control. That can have a dramatic effect — you can shift abruptly from excessive darin...
Asks David Corn. Clinton... signed orders instructing U.S. foreign service officers to spy on the diplomats of other nations.... Diplomats a...
That's how Rush Limbaugh talked about Julian Assange on his show yesterday. What I'm interested in here is not Assange per se or wh...
"Meade" is in 210 phrases in 30 movies (with a lot of repetitions in "Gone With the Wind"), but "Althouse" is...
Jump! Via Metafilter , where I also found out (via email from Jaltcoh) about this amazing website where you can search for phrases in movie...
A federal judge bars the state's Save Our State Amendment pending further proceedings. “While defendants contend that the amendment is m...
Do you even remember his name? Irvin Kershner was 87.
Noel Sheppard asks before speculating: Are Obama-loving press members trying to orchestrate an outcome by giving an abundance of attention ...
If a retired Supreme Court Justice is going to publish an essay in a classy literary tabloid , he should do better than this. If an erudite ...
No, of course that's not what the NYT review of that new book about Frank Sinatra says. It says "Sinatra was a singularly incande...
Overheard at Meadhouse.
Goodbye to Leslie Nielsen. Goodbye and good luck.
Yes, it's me, age 19, sitting under a Norman-Mailer-for-Mayor poster: ( Enlarge .) Just something I ran across as I work on restoring th...
Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo . Is it sad? I mean... I'm not asking if the blob itself is sad. But is it sad that there is...
That's what I extract from this pretty garbled NYT op-ed . And by garbled I mean stuff like this: “Over time, we began to realize that m...
At the Isthmus, Bill Lueders — remember him from last week ? — seems disturbed by the proposal to kill the geese that are ruining our beauti...
The book under review is David Garland's "Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition." The review i...
Was Mohamed Osman Mohamud entrapped?
Stock up! UPDATE: Shining the harsh light of journalism on Arianna Huffington: The light bulbs are the first incongruity I spot waiting for ...
"There, you have a place where you are taxed to the mean. A cultural norm reminds everybody that they are no better than everybody else...
But hoary old NPR is still purveying them. Christmas is coming up, so I'm steeling myself for jokes about how no one actually likes fru...
"It never kicked in, I took it back to the store and said 'Bullshit!'"
It's Digital Life Sacrifice. "It's really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on."
Schieffer's question was: "What would Teddy Roosevelt think of today’s politics?" “You keep asking these presentist questions,...
The NYT passes along the "brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats." ¶ Gam...
That knife costs $139.95. I don't have a knife like this myself, but I assume the reader knew what he or she wanted. And my point — my ...
Cheating and enraging customers so they denounce you on the web... as a business model , thanks to Google. Online chatter about DecorMyEyes,...
Instapundit turns the tables on the Democrats and, in the process links to a post I wrote 6 years ago — not because I was doing 6-years-ago...
Oh dear... You know what that is? It's the first digital photograph I ever took. I'm uploading it to Flickr tonight along with 2,00...
An NPR headline for a Scott Simon piece: I wonder if having a larger scar wouldn't actually fortify President Obama's profile, as he...
If you've got something to say about it, say it here. ADDED: And now, it's on to the Rose Bowl. But first... pick up that trash: (Th...
"Hilarity ensues! Besides, anything that increases my junk profile has to be a good thing, right?" No video of this actually happe...
"Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks ... says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana." Come on. L...
"... and you may disagree with those decisions but they were made because I genuinely believed them to be right." Said Tony Blair ...
It was all the rage just about exactly 6 years ago. Americans were apologizing to the world for reelecting George Bush. Remember these peop...
The NYT reports on an Oregon teenager's attempt to blow up fake explosives — given him by the FBI — that he thought were real. Accordin...
"... and I can make you perfectly fitting garments in the future without any sewing and stitching, making the needle and the thread obs...
It takes 12 stitches to close up the wound.
Says Maria Bustillos. She quotes this from me : What is liberal about this attitude toward other people? You wallow in self-love, and what...
... there's still time to talk.
Today is the 107th birthday of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor. "I am richer than other people."
Judges Henry E. Hudson (in Virginia) and Judge Roger Vinson (in Florida) will rule on their case soon. Both of these judges were appointed ...
Okay, I can help you and you can help me. I write for you every day, and you don't have to give me anything. But if you're shopping ...
The FDA — with pressure short of an actual ban — has driven the product off the market. Four Loko combines one cup of coffee's worth of...
"They were asking about the difference between mom and mother. It was a sign." I don't think that a mentally ill person facing...
... oh, it's cold... ... but we're not crusted over yet... ... share the last glow of warmth here tonight.
Thanksgiving, at sunset, 2010.
Irradiation is a great way to improve food safety: Bacteria, viruses, and everything else are all sterilized by the radiation. Ionizing radi...
This is happening in the U.K.! It is thought the girl, who lives in the Sandwell Council area, was allegedly filmed setting the booklet alig...
Stephen Green (via Instapundit ) calls attention to this Mark Ames article (from October) "The Rally to Restore Vanity: Generation X C...
Hey. I see what you did there . You had to write about Thanksgiving again, so you wrote about hating to have to write about Thanksgiving aga...
I hope you made it to your destination okay. Or, if you're staying home, that you're warm and cozy. Feel free to eat pie: Michelle O...
... we can drift off into a fantasy of the past .
"Only one pair would survive and win the big prize: life." Obama turkey pardoning joke with a hint of cultural relevancy and a pos...
Calls the Bushes "blue bloods" for wanting her to stay in Alaska.
"Am I spelling that right? 'Wisconsin.' It looks weird written out.... Ladies and gentlemen, isn't it time you elected some...
"C'mon, make him stop, Mom! Make him surrender to the mood of anxiety and fear I am actively trying to entrap him with! I was just ...
UPDATE: The video went dead. It showed the comedian Neil Hamburger saying that line, listening while the audience cheered and hooted anti-Bu...
As Meade photographs Althouse on the north shore of Lake Mendota, yesterday, at sunset: ( Enlarge .) ( Enlarge .)
"... especially legislators popularly elected by the rabble, to scrape the manure off their boots before they enter the State Capitol.”...
James Taranto quotes Gov. Ed Rendell... [P]eople don't always vote on logical reasons. Emotion drives voters particularly when they have...
He begins with the example of the the new get-naked-or-groped TSA policy and goes on: From stimulus spending and the health care law to the ...
Choire Sicha points at a really, really bad effort at satire: D.C. comedy site "The Daily Caller" has a hilarious piece today , e...
According to a new McClatchy-Marist poll: Nearly half of his own base — 45 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents — want s...
Claims Glenn Reynolds , responding to Elizabeth Wurtzel who calls Democrats "total morons for not finding their own hot mama." He...
Awaiting the results on "Dancing with the Stars." UPDATE: And the winner is... Jennifer Grey. Bristol comes in third. Kyle Massey ...
( Enlarge .) A few minutes earlier: ( Enlarge .)
"Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!"
"... and say they're doing it for our interest. If we tolerate this, there's something wrong with us. I mean something wrong wi...
Interesting clip , but I note that there are 5 commentators, and 3 sit silently while 2 do all the talking. The 3 are all men. The 2 are wom...