"The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse..."

The NYT reports on the what the prosecutor's investigators have learned about the hotel housekeeper who accused him of rape: Although fo...

Emily Mills responds to my criticism of her unsubstantiated accusation that I went to "great and terrible lengths" to defend Justice Prosser.

I'm linking so you can get started talking about it in the comments here and over there. I haven't read the entire thing, but it lo...

I'm trapped in a Blogger blog and I can't get out.

Maybe you are wondering why I said this blog was going to move out of Blogger and onto an independent site. I made the decision after a har...

Media Matters makes a montage of the Glenn Beck show.

Media Matters hates Glenn Beck, but this montage is pretty damned entertaining, perhaps because the Fox News channel show is ending. Tonight...

Mark Halperin called Obama "a dick" and now he says "I can’t explain why I did it."

He's apologized, but I don't care. I want him to explain why he did it. Why is he editor-in-large at Time if he can't explain t...

“The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men."

Says Dan Savage (in a big NYT Magazine story about him): “Men were never expected to be monogamous. Men had concubines, mistresses and acces...

At the hotel attack in Kabul, the Afghan police were seen "tightly gripping their own AK-47s as they raced away from the gunmen."

A hotel guest recalls: “I said, ‘Why don’t you shoot? Shoot!'... But they just said, ‘Get away from them.’ And we all ran together.” Six...

At the Cheese Curd and Onion Ring Café...

... let's get fried. Meanwhile, outside.... ... there were throngs of people at the Capitol... and they weren't protesting. (They we...

Under the new Wisconsin budget repair, one school district goes from a $400,000 deficit to a $1.5 million surplus.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of...

6th Circuit upholds the individual mandate.

Ilya Somin comments: Today’s 2–1 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandate is undeni...

"Generic Republican Candidate 46%, Obama 42%."

Says Rasmussen. Fortunately for Obama, the Republicans will have to settle on a specific Republican.

President Obama evolves beyond "evolving."

The NYT reports: After months of saying his position on same-sex marriage is “evolving,” President Obama on Wednesday traded that language f...

The Madison SlutWalk was a bust.

Oh, no! My partner and I arrived just in time to make the official start time of the march, our “Stop Slut Shaming” sign in hand, to join a ...

"Shoplifting... has long been viewed as a women’s crime, a relative of bulimia and other 'female appetite diseases.'"

"Freud’s disciples linked it to repressed sexuality."

"Journalism has become a form of litigation."

"It's not about finding the truth; it's about advocating theories and presenting facts in a way that ensures that one 'side...

Isthmus columnist Emily Mills slimes me over the Wisconsin Supreme Court "chokegate" story...

... without taking the trouble to link to or quote anything I said. Or should I say without daring to link to or quote anything I said? Sh...

"Is there something especially morbid and sick about Wisconsin?"

I asked back in March, 2004: As a person living in Wisconsin, I had to wonder if the book [ "Wisconsin Death Trip" ] was picking ...

"In many parts of Europe it was traditional to supply a newly married couple with enough mead for a month..."

"... ensuring happiness and fertility. From this practice we get honeymoon or, as the French say, lune de miel [lit. 'moon of hone...

"Sounds like Wisconsin needs to clean house in its Supreme Court... the state legislature should start probing this case to determine exactly what happened..."

"... and whether the Chief Justice has conducted a leak campaign against Prosser as payback. I’d say at least one resignation is due i...

"The potential fall of Ahmadinejad is a story worthy of any Persian tale..."

"... a pageant of court favouritism, abrupt firings of otherwise loyal ministers, apparent challenges to the Islamic heritage of Iran, ...

"The beginning of Case 002 will be a cathartic moment for all Cambodians."

"While the crimes of the Khmer Rouge were committed over a quarter of a century ago, they remain ingrained in Cambodia’s collective psy...

At the Scull Café...

... skim along.

Local journalist Bill Wineke demagogues the Wisconsin Supreme Court story... and slimes me.

This, published at channel3000, is so lame I hate to send it any traffic, but I want you to see the kind of thing that passes for mainstrea...

"[E]very state but Wisconsin and Nebraska (plus Washington, D.C.) is producing many more lawyers than it needs..."

Fascinating , but there's something about Wisconsin that the NYT doesn't know! And it's not that we've (apparently) gone cra...

"More Details Emerge in Wisconsin’s ‘Chokegate.'"

A very interesting article by Christian Schneider at The National Review: The week before the legislature was set to re-pass the collective-...

"As a plain-vanilla candidate, Romney is never going to win the excitement primary."

"A telling moment occurred when Sarah Palin stole the spotlight by taking her bus tour to New Hampshire on the day that Romney was offi...

"Gov. Scott Walker said... he should have done more to prepare the public for his plan to eliminate most collective bargaining for public employees."

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: "We had not built enough of the case" for the sweeping plan, Walker said... "What I shoul...

"One claim is that fracking creates cracks in rock formations that allow chemicals to leach into sources of fresh water."

"... The problem with this argument is that the average shale formation is thousands of feet underground, while the average drinking we...

"Men are also at the mercy of age when it comes to having kids."

The male body constantly makes new sperm that is capable of producing a child... ... but they can contain dangerous mutations. "As men ...

"The Brotherhood is tyrannical in its opinions and views..."

"... and I think they will take the side of the Islamist businessmen who fund it and have strict Islamic ideologies." "Wait, ...

"Weiner is trying to insert himself..."

"... back into politics...." IN THE COMMENTS: David writes: And politics says: "That's enough, Anthony. Roll over and go ...

At the Teabag Café...

... or do you want to call it the Coffee Teahouse? Well, you can say whatever you want in the comments. This is just a picture from the pro-...

Blagojevich convicted on 17 charges of corruption.

"Two agencies are investigating a claim by Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley that Justice David Prosser put her in a chokehold earlier this month..."

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The separate probes are being run by the Dane County Sheriff's Office and the Wisconsin Judicia...

The pro-Walker singalong at the Wisconsin Capitol today.

Isthmus columnist David Blaska set up a conservative singalong for the Capitol rotunda, which is usually occupied at this time by an anti-Wa...

"[D]o you think that a woman like Bradley, who seriously considered calling the cops because Prosser used a profanity about another justice..."

"... would not call the cops if she was the victim of an unprovoked, physical assault in front of witnesses?" Asks Darleen at Pro...

In the violent video games case, Scalia notes the irony of Alito's strenuous effort to describe the "astounding" violence.

From the majority opinion in the just-decided case of Brown, Governor of California v. Entertainment Merchants Association: JUSTICE ALITO ha...

Anti-Walker chanting, Green Bay style... plus: a mini-stampede.

Yesterday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker was signing the budget repair bill inside Fox Valley Metal-Tech building , while an...

Chris Wallace throws a softball question at Michelle Bachmann, then is bullied into apologizing...

... and Bachmann won't even accept the apology! When did people become so humorless? Wallace — who seems like a sweetheart — asked ...

"Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son."

"Surgeons in the city of Indore are reported to be 'converting' hundreds of girls a year, who are subsequently pumped full of h...

"If it's Kansas, Missouri, no big deal. You know, that's the dance of the low-sloping foreheads. The middle places, right?"

It's NYT columnist David Carr, saying something aloud on Bill Maher's show the other day. I thought I'd better nail that down h...

"I'm not sure who makes me laugh more: the Rock....or the guy at the back of the log boat."

"I vote for the guy in the back. A lesser known member of the Rock's entourage." Via Throwing Things , commenting on "Thi...

Blaska attempts to extract details from Lueders about his unnamed sources in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Blaska's at the Isthmus, where Lueders worked for 25 years before moving on to the mysterious outfit that calls itself the Wisconsin Cen...

The protest today in Green Bay as Scott Walker signed the budget bill.

New Media Meade was there, not inside for the signing ceremony , but outside photographing the crowd of about 300 protesters. He brought hom...

Lueders responds to my post about him, saying "We absolutely did not have information about an alternative version that we purposely withheld."

"When we became aware of this alternative version. we included it. We further updated the piece to reflect that Justice Bradley has ref...

Philip Roth: "I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all."

"I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.... I wised up ..."

"Can 'fake' Democrats really pull an upset" in the Wisconsin recall primaries?

Here in Wisconsin, 6 Republican senators are facing recall elections, and there must be a challenger in that election. How is it determined ...

Gov. Walker signed the budget bill today, applying his powerful veto pen to 50 items.

What did he veto? ... Walker struck out dozens of budget provisions, including one that would have allowed bail bondsmen in Wisconsin. He al...

Mr. Forward's poem.

From the "stupid/evil" post: Did Bradley act badly? Did Lueder delude her? Did Prosser cross her?

"List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters."

#1 on the list of 100 Longest Entries on Wikipedia — a hilarious list that had me asking Who the hell is Larry Norman? and Fanny Crosby? And...

How stupid/evil was Bill Lueders's attack on Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser?

Yesterday morning, I first read the story written by Bill Lueders — of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — saying that ...