"Sarah Palin's bus tour treats reporters like paparazzi."

Ha ha. Great headline.

Quit distracting Anthony Weiner.

"Unpopular Freshman GOP Governors Could Help Obama’s Reelection Bid."

Says TPM. When Daddy is too scary, we run to Mommy.

James Wolcott, a 59-year-old man, purports to empathize with Piper Palin and...

... tries to enfold her in his flabby old arms with the pretense that he is somehow cooler than her parents: Piper in that shot looks like ...

Let's talk about morality.

America has a strong consensus about a lot things even as we are divided on others: What surprises you the most here? Are you surprised that...

"Ohio State officials will argue that the school should be spared, in part because they got rid of Tressel..."

"... the head of the program that has been so tainted by wrongdoing. For years, Ohio State benefited from Tressel's choirboy image....

You can be a great lawyer when the judge doesn't have access to the case law.

"A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nat...

"Perhaps it was Zeppo’s ardent pursuit with dinner invitations and flowers or the new Thunderbird convertible he bought for me."

"Or was it the time he stood behind a group of strangers in an elevator and pulled faces until I was laughing so hard I had to get off...

"I simply do not know how the brutal torture of children can be surpassed as an example of pure evil."

"What is happening in Syria has become morally intolerable even under the standards of the Middle East."

"A senior Egyptian general admits that 'virginity checks' were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring..."

"... the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities," CNN reports : "The girls who were detained wer...

Rush Limbaugh is 6 minutes into his show without mentioning Weiner.

It's all about the economy, people. The man is not distracted. Not yet, anyway. I'll keep you updated. UPDATE #1: 9 minutes into the...

Kloppenburg concedes!

At last! Good decision. Thank you.

"I've really never understood the business... of sending these pictures to women."

Can someone please explain to Mark Schmitt — and everyone else with this comprehension problem — why some men send pictures of their genital...

The most likely innocent explanation for the Weiner Hacking Incident.

Yesterday, I said: But I think it is news when a politician mishandles his internet communications. Minor news, but worth noting. And it...

Where's Meade?

He's out with the chickens! And the tent and the bikes. In Nashville, Indiana. And it's time to get home.

The Weiner Hacker Prize

"As much as I admire Congressman Weiner's Gandhi-like forgiving attitude toward his assailant - as well as his world class ninja pr...

At the Althouse Alehouse...

... it's a madhouse.

A boy and his otter.

Victorian...

... Surrealism.

"Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist."

"In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called 'Chicago City of Contrasts.'...

"This isn’t a campaign bus. This is a bus to be able to express to America..."

"... how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind o...

"Things that I never imagined people would care about are now being plastered all over blog sites..."

"... including pictures of me from when I was 17 and tweets that have been taken completely out of context. I tweeted once (it was repo...

"Everybody is a brother. Everybody is a sister."

"We can all love one another."

"Sarah Palin and her family sneaked out in Washington on Sunday night for what she called an 'incognito' tour of the national monuments..."

Reports the NYT: Details of the visit were posted Monday morning on her Web site , along with pictures that show her, her husband, Todd, and...

Did you know "how important the personal innovation lifestyle is becoming"?

What's your personal innovation lifestyle ? Is it focused on "ordinariness and ... the capacity... to take on roles that involve hi...

"Head of patron saint of genital diseases sold to Los Angeles buyer."

Only $5,000, in an antique case. I'd never heard of the patron saint of genital diseases, Vitalis of Assisi. St Vitalis was born in Umbr...

"The People’s Bratfest was designed to be an alternative to the World’s Largest Brat Fest, but it was not meant to be an anti-Johnsonville event..."

Inane Madison politics rages on, in the form of a sausage.

"When Patti Davis posed nude for Playboy in 1994, she was twice as old as the typical Playmate."

"Now 58, she’s posing for us — and telling the naked truth about her motives." "Us" = More, which is a magazine. So is U...

"Memorial Day was a response to the Civil War, and it sits where it does on the calendar for a perfectly good reason."

"It was originally called Decoration Day - a day to honor the (Union) war dead by decorating their graves with flowers, which are most ...

Palin posts her Rolling thunder pics.

More here . ADDED: "'I love that smell of the emissions,' she said, donning sunglasses and a Harley Davidson skullcap-style, bl...

At the Picnic Café...

... you can hang out all day.

Palin's Rolling Thunder photo op.

The NYT emphasizes that she couldn't really ride anywhere because of the crush of photographers. I will emphasize the utter gorgeousnes...

Wiener and Weiner are 2 different words.

Learn spelling if nothing else. A photo of a man’s bulging gray boxer-brief underwear was posted to [Rep. Anthony] Weiner’s account with yfr...

Ray Davies...

... back, with friends. Listen to the 11-minute audio at the link. Lots of music on it. The one thing I definitely dislike is Ray singing w...

"This is the last bathroom in the city anyone would ever want to use..."

The "Drug Loo."

"Model plunges to her death after falling through hotel window while 'play wrestling' with female friend."

"Lashawna Threatt... crashed into a window and fell five storeys onto a slanted glass ceiling above a sun room at the W Midtown Hotel...

Machete, the Cane Corso that killed a boy, "had showed no sign of aggression."

Said the mother of the dead 4-year-old. The neighbors tell a different story: "Those dogs were vicious," said building superintend...

Making a big deal out of a baby's sex in the guise of attempting to make nothing out of it.

"A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or he...

"Since taking office as a wartime president in 2009, Obama has struggled at times to surround himself with military commanders whom he trusts and feels personally comfortable with."

WaPo reports: Supporters of [Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright]...  said he ultimately paid a political price for giving independent military ...

Designing althou.se.

Did you know I'm going to bust out of blogspot soon? When the Althouse URL isn't althouse.blogspot.com but althou.se — what do you e...

"The excuse that you're not breaking new gossip you're just helping to spread gossip seems like a pretty lame excuse."

Jack Craver — the Isthmus writer who did that hit piece on me — takes some heat for writing "Oh, and Herb Kohl is long-rumored to be ...

At the Allium Spacecraft Café...

... don't take off just yet. (That's my photo, animated by Chip Ahoy , according to instructions by Penny .)

"Obama Signs Patriot Act Extension with Autopen..."

"... Odd Clauses Watch Gets Hundreds of Hits."

At the Bumblebee Café

... just be yourself.

"I'm sure I'm not the only one who read this and thought of one of the greatest movies ever made."

Yeah, I did too. And thanks for posting that 36-year-old trailer. I haven't gone to the movies in many months. I never see that there...

Crack plays Instapundit...

... with Instapundit. There's a funny but NSFW image at the link. BTW, I think Crack is wrong about why Glenn doesn't link to him. ...

"'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' that was about the fact that the first change that takes place is in your mind..."

"... You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move. So when we said that 'The Revolution Wil...

Why did Cornel West call Obama "a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats"?

What set him off ? Glenn Loury and Joshua Cohen try to figure it out:

"I love the opening thump thump of the drums..."

"... and once hit a dashboard so hard that it made the cassette eject."

"Scott Lemieux's Spencer Ackerman moment."

Actually, I think this is unfair , but I'm not going say why or distinguish Scott Lemieux from Spencer Ackerman, because I swore off lin...

Margo Dydek, the tallest WNBA female basketball player ever, has died of a heart attack at the age of 37.

She was 7'2" tall. Despite Dydek’s prowess in Europe, American scouts were lukewarm before she arrived in the United States in 1998...

Lech Walesa rejects meeting with Obama...

... as Obama arrives in Poland.

At the Indoor-Outdoor Café...

... are you in or out?

Gallup poll: Democrats estimate that 28% of Americans are gay.

Republicans are much closer to reality, at 20.2%, but still far off. (The actual percentage is more like 3.5.) What accounts for this discr...

"Althouse is shrewder."

Says Andrew Sullivan. Thanks. He's saying I'm shrewder than Byron York, referring to this post , earlier today, which is up to 249 ...

"Death from Dehydration Is Usually Serene."

An ABC News article, from 2005 , back when people were agonizing over Terri Schiavo. "The process of starving to death seems very barba...

"Married couples have dropped below half of all American households for the first time..."

"... the Census Bureau says, a milestone in the evolution of the American family toward less traditional forms. Married couples represe...

"Less than three years into the job, first lady Michelle Obama is on her third chief of staff and third social secretary."

"She is on her second communications director, the White House chief usher recently departed, and her press secretary’s last day is Fri...

"When Obama Imposed a No-Touch Zone on DSK."

Ha.

At the Allium Café...

... I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Rudy Giuliani leads in the new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

"Lang told a Madison police officer at the Motel 6, 1754 Thierer Road, that he had a gun 'to lay out abortionists because they are killing babies.'"

Madison.com reports on the arrest of Ralph Lang, who was arrested here in Madison, about a mile from a Planned Parenthood clinic, after he ...

"Take a picture of my pie. I need a picture."/"No. You’ll write that my rhubarb cobbler sucked and your pie was great."

Penelope Trunk writes about what do do if you think you're getting fired — and, most bloggishly — includes a lot of rhubarb, interperso...

"The bottom line is Sarah Palin is not going to run for president... She's making money, she's moved on..."

"... she's kind of an entertainer rather than a politician. She still has some sway with the grass roots, but she is not going to r...

Allium with sunspots.

At the Dark Wright Café...

... are you feeling uneasy?

There's something a bit absurd about a billionaire killing a goat...

... and congratulating himself about sustainability . Zuckerberg's guide on this strange journey has been a well-known Silicon Valley ch...

"Sarah Palin is launching a nationwide bus tour starting Sunday in Washington..."

"... Palin will also be stopping at other spots of symbolic national significance on the East Coast, including the Civil War battlefiel...

"Barack Obama was probably not aware that he was doing anything unusual when making a toast 'to the Queen' and then continuing with a short speech."

BBC explains: According to protocol, however, he should have stopped after the toast. The band, taking its cue from the word Queen, struck u...

"Spectator removed from Wisconsin Senate gallery, purportedly for wiggling fingers and bouncing shoulders, during Voter ID debate."

Interesting video at the link. Watch it and tell me what you think. If you think the finger-wiggling guy looks familiar, he appears in a Ne...

"It's not that Obama can't speak clearly. It's that he employs the intellectual stammer."

"Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is movin...

Judge Sumi strikes down the Wisconsin collective bargaining law.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: [Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat] sued to block the law after Assembly Minor...

Supreme Court upholds Arizona law that requires employers to check the immigration status of job applicants.

Announced, just now, on the SCOTUSblog live-blog of the Court. Here 's how SCOTUSblog described the issue in the case, which is called ...

I don't think Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan were caught in a secret conversation that they didn't want overheard.

Here 's the tete-a-tete, beautifully filmed, by ABC News, with excellent sound quality. "So anyway, I told them before you got here...

"Saudi Facebook Campaign Calls on Men to Beat Women Drivers."

Says Gateway Pundit. A facebook campaign launched in Saudi Arabia is urging men to beat women who are caught driving. The page already has 6...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn confined to $14 million apartment in Tribeca.

"It's a three-story, 6,800-square-foot palace with a movie theater, antique French oak floors, a gym and a terrace - and $50,000-a-...

"A 1-hour elementary school lesson on gender diversity featuring all-girl geckos and transgender clownfish caused a stir in Oakland..."

"... with conservative legal defense organizations questioning the legitimacy of the topic and providing legal counsel to parents who o...

Scotty wins. Seems to be having a love affair with Lauren.

Beyonce appeared to be in hell while singing a hellishly awful song. Steven Tyler got to follow Bono. Jennifer Lopez's husband had a who...

"I used to worry that Sarah Palin would be the Barry Goldwater of 2012. My bad. Paul Ryan is the Barry Goldwater of 2012."

Frum yanks your chain.

"Thank you for the freak show. She died in front of me. You’re treasonous." Jared Loughner yelled....

... just before Judge Larry A. Burns found him incompetent to stand trial. At his first courtroom appearance shortly after the shootings, M...

At the Back Alley Café...

... you can get past the facade.

"Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?"

Whoa! Suddenly the girls sat up again, with renewed energy, and Krista reached for a cup with a straw in the corner of the crib. “I am drink...

I find toast-botch too painful to mock.

What if you gave a toast and nobody raised their glass with you, because they were in the middle of a solemn ritual that you had thought was...

Raising money for Bloggingheads by auctioning the censorship of Ann Althouse.

In the words of the Marx Brothers... ... tomorrow, I leave! That's worth about... a million dollars!

There's a comment signing-in problem...

... which Blogger is working on. Sorry if you're having trouble. I've gotten a lot of email about it. I'm sure it will be fixed ...

"I think Beyonce is a great pop songwriter. Still, the lyrics to this song are classic faux empowerment..."

"... as she's literally suggesting women run the world by being very persuasive with our vaginas." Amanda Marcotte wrings her ...

"Justice Department plans to indict John Edwards."

"The Department of Justice plans to argue that two wealthy supporters donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Edwards campaign ...

Requiring patients to sign over copyrights to reviews of doctors so the doctors can make websites take down bad reviews.

If you've chosen a doctor based on all the good reviews in Yelp, and he won't treat you unless you sign a form that gives him owners...

"UN-COOL, UN-HIP, COUNTRY-FRIED SINGER WINS 'AMERICAN IDOL'..."

"SOURCE: SCOTTY TOOK NEARLY DOUBLE AMOUNT OF VOTES OVER RUNNER UP... DEVELOPING.." Drudge , linking only to a general article abo...

"It has long been the supreme fantasy of establishment guardians in general, and David Brooks in particular..."

"... that American politics would be dominated by an incestuous, culturally homogeneous, superior elite 'who live in [Washington] a...

"How Kathy Hochul won, and why it spells trouble for the GOP in 2012."

Jerry Zremski in the New Republic: The Hochul message—the one that was a winner for her—could be seen on signs all around New York’s Twenty-...

Best paragraph in the obituary of the 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark.

"For the quarter-century that followed [her mother's death], Mrs. Clark lived in the apartment in near solitude, amid a profusion o...

17 lost Egyptian pyramids spotted from space.

"More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildi...

"So far, B-cycle bike-share program is glitchy."

It's Madison’s bike-share program. We were out biking — on our own bikes — yesterday, and we noticed one of the "stations." M...

"The tanned Duchess of Cambridge blew Michelle Obama out of the water."

Insane Daily Mail headline. It's supposed to relate to the fashion: For their first meeting yesterday, Kate wore a simple but stylish £...

"U R the lowest common denominator. 30+ Bernie statues??? Your greed disgusts me more than your profile picture."

Milwaukee Brewers promotion goes predictably wrong.

At the Square Events Café...

... you can be hip or square. ( Enlarge enough to read the 2011 Calendar of Events for Monroe, Wisconsin.)

"Are you supposed to be Suzie Doozie, the fearsome litigator during work, then put on an apron and magically transform into Suzie Homemaker at nights and weekends?"

"What's the point of that schzoid existence? Will your kids be better adjusted because you share daddy's name? Shouldn't th...

Manal al-Sharif, the woman leading the right-to-drive campaign, is arrested by the Saudis.

Was she arrested for driving or for speaking out about the driving ban? Ms. Sharif was arrested after two much-publicized drives last week ...

Should psychiatrists offer opinions about the mental conditions of various characters in the news?

The official rule of the American Psychiatric Association is that they can speak generally but it's unethical to give a professional opi...