Obama tries to schedule a Joint Session of Congress to conflict with the Republican debate.

The Republican debate was scheduled first. (And it's an important one, at the Reagan Library, with Rick Perry's first appearance in...

Honor my personal space bubble!

David Blaska notes a hilarious assertion by Isthmus blogger Emily Mills (who still owes me an apology ). Mills, in an effort to spin the Wi...

Fighting the revolution in Iran with squirt guns.

Innocent fun or serious political threat? After heeding a call on Facebook, a group of nearly 800 young men and women were among those who ...

At the Blue Pond Café...

... ponder .

EcoKat backlash.

What's the matter with Kansas?   (Via Instapundit .) Kansas State University recently introduced EcoKat, a special mascot to promote env...

"Sarah Palin Appearance at Tea Party Rally in Iowa 'No Longer Confirmed.'"

That seems to suggest — am I reading too much into it? — that she had intended to declare her candidacy for President has changed her mind ...

“Some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me…hanging on a tree.”

So said Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana. A Hoosier !

"In his two weeks as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry has done something that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney could do..."

"... wake up the left." Says Politico. From my perspective here in Wisconsin, I had not noticed that the left was asleep. Indeed, ...

Don't call me Shirley/Buddy.

The file on the police investigation of the Wisconsin Supreme Court "chokehold" incident contains accounts of 2 incidents in wh...

Analogizing the Wisconsin Supreme Court "chokehold" incident to... basketball.

This is email from a reader, which I am posting in full, without additional comment, except to say that it's a theory and I don't ag...

"you cannot ride bikes in NYC. too many fatalities every year even when you follow the rules"

Comment on a very sad story of the death of a 29-year-old woman.

Deceptive Daily News headline: "Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park's head scarf ban."

Did Rye Playland have a head scarf ban? One woman, Entisai Ali, began arguing with cops over the amusement park's head scarf, or hijab,...

"But for the incandescent aficionados, fluorescent lights tend to be associated with morgues, prisons and tenement hallways."

Cultural historian Christopher Cook says they have a "'cold creepiness' and make you feel like you're being interrogated....

At the Showerhead Café...

... rain your clear thoughts upon us.

"A green alternative to cremation... dissolving the body in heated alkaline water."

"Body tissue is dissolved and the liquid poured into the municipal water system. Mr Sullivan, a biochemist by training, says tests have...

"We would walk through the country with our guitars on our shoulders, stop at people’s houses, play a little music, walk on..."

"We could hitchhike, transfer from truck to truck, or, if we couldn’t catch one of them, we’d go to the train yard, ’cause the railroad...

"I never imagined it would be this bad... I'm not a bad man. I'm really not."

"We had no intention of stealing TVs, anything that was of value to them, real value. I just seen a couple bottles of liquor there and ...

"Break into my house in the middle of the night and it's nightie night."

Milwaukee State Journal readers react to a news story about a Waukesha County  prosecutor delaying making a decision whether to charge a m...

Greta Van Susteren asks if anyone is demanding that Justices Prosser and Bradley step down.

"Are any of the newspaper asking for them to step down? People have very serious disputes and their whole lives depend on decisions on ...

Romney having trouble raising money from Jewish donors who say they prefer "the Jewish candidate" — Michele Bachmann.

What's going on here? Republican fund raisers are exploiting Obama's weak support for Israel, but Mitt Romney is not doing so well ...

"What could Chaz Bono and Nancy Grace possibly have in common?"

We shall see!

"Top stylists from New York to Hollywood told me their liberal clients are guiltily requesting the Bachmann Look."

Forget politics! They love her hair: "A lot of clients have asked for Sarah Palin hair in the past four years, and now, it's Bachma...

At the Glittering Water Café...

... you can sparkle all night. ADDED: Chip Ahoy adds a Rocky touch... ... a double Rocky touch, right? I see 2 pop culture references.

The special prosecutor said no criminal charges, but what will the Wisconsin Judicial Commission do about the "chokehold" incident?

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel examines the case: The judicial commission is separately investigating the case for violations of the state...

"Americans view the computer industry the most positively and the federal government the least positively..."

"... when asked to rate 25 business and industry sectors. All five of the top-rated sectors this year are related to either computers o...

"'Ugliness' is not a personal trait that many people choose to embrace..."

"... those whom we classify as protected might not be willing to admit that they are ugly. But with the chance of obtaining extra pay a...

"Liberation theology is a power set of tools and approaches within any religion."

Liberation theology is a set of power tools!

"Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner?"

"Scientists Say It's Unlikely."

Do you know how to drive on a "bicycle boulevard"? Do you even know what a "sharrow" is?

Well, don't drive in Madison, Wisconsin until you learn. We were biking around town for about an hour last evening, and the problem out ...

Glittering: "assault" or "wonderfully fabulous way to protest"?

Diane Anderson-Minshall, executive editor of The Advocate, the gay news magazine, says throwing metallic flecks in someone's face is a ...

What we still don't know about the Wisconsin Supreme Court "chokehold" incident: Who leaked the story to the press?

Here 's something I wrote in early July, a week after the story first appeared in the media: Judges are supposed to work out their human...

Lady Gaga's Andrew Dice Clay routine — "Joe Calderone."

She's one of the guys. All the big pop stars want to be actors, don't they? But only 2 have succeeded, by my count. Most fail, follo...

"Oh my God, it's beautiful... Everyone here is so much nicer than in New York, too."

The new students are arriving in Madison. And the ones from New York, some of them, don't really get the Midwest yet. Here's a tip...

Man lives in a 78-square-foot space.

He's an architect in his 20s , living — roommate free! — in New York City.  Based on the street scene, he's right about here . He se...

Hurricane Irene causes Gwyneth Paltrow to go to a book signing without wearing makeup.

Let's take full account of the effects of the monstrous storm!

At the Cloudscape Café...

... you can see, touch, and taste everything. (If you enjoyed the music that happened to be playing on the car radio in that little clip an...

"Labor Day parade organizers confirm that no Republicans will be allowed to participate in this year's Labor Day Parade."

"[Marathon County Labor Council] president Randy Radtke says they choose not to invite elected officials who have 'openly attacked ...

"Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and likely to take secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 to his grave."

Says who?  CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous dr...

Wisconsin "Singalong" Protesters Confront Workers and Chant About Boycotting Their Employer.

Meade recorded this video at the 8/26/11 anti-Scott Walker singalong at the Wisconsin Capitol. Toward the end of what is their regular hour-...

"In trying to talk prosecutors out of weak cases, I have been told more than once, 'I wasn’t there, man, and neither were you. Let the 12 of them figure it out.'"

Writes Scott Turow (in an op-ed about Dominique Strauss-Kahn): In practice, this means that even defendants who are probably innocent must e...

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want."

Said by the same person who said: "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"If Ann Althouse was assaulted, so was Justice Bradley. Or, if you prefer, if Justice Bradley wasn't assaulted, then neither was Ann Althouse."

Crazy-ass thread hijack over at Blaska's , by one Jeremy Schultz. Meade pushes back, as do other commenters. It's interesting to me,...

18 seconds of raw class warfare.

Scary! "It's coming! Get ready! All you fucking tea-party-baggers. It's coming. Get ready." Meade visits the Wisconsin Cap...

"Sure a baby has a swimming reflex but that doesn't mean watching them swim isn't absolutely terrifying."

Says a Metafilter participant , linking to several videos. I watched these videos and didn't find them terrifying at all. These are peop...

"I spent a lot of time thinking about contemporary Christianity, and obviously the rapture kept coming up."

"My first impulse was ... to laugh it off — it's sort of a funny idea, people just floating away. But I kept thinking: What if it d...

"I've spent the last 48 years chasing hurricanes to ride the swells."

Says our commenter Surfed: Was a Florida hurricane correspondent for Surfline.com for a few years. I've been caught in a few. First the...

"Crime and the great recession: Jobs have fled, lawbreaking hasn’t risen..."

"... and criminologists are scratching their heads. I credit Internet porn and videogames. Is there anything they can’t do?"

"I will retreat if it gets any more dangerous than this."

"Be careful with that weird stuff.... That is a bizarre, wild substance that is about to bury you." Reporter in the hurricane.

What's it like in the hurricane/tropical storm?

I'm looking at the Charging Bull Cam (on Wall Street in NYC) and seeing people in tourist mode strolling up to look at the big bull sta...

At the Canna Café...

... you canno t say the wrong thing. IN THE COMMENTS: Clyde said: If it was in Leadville, it would have been the Canna Bistro... He's ta...

The Capitol Pedaler.

A familiar sight around the Capitol Square here in Madison. You'll know it's Madison from the outburst at 0:40.

Capitol cloudscape.

"Power could be shut off in Lower Manhattan, hitting Wall Street, a precaution against storm surges as Hurricane Irene strikes..."

Reports the Wall Street Journal. "The most important thing is to make sure their facilities aren't damaged, which would take a long...

"What a coincidence! CEO of Gibson Guitar a Republican Donor."

"And their Democratic-donating competitor, Martin, uses the same wood but wasn’t raided. Well, when you’ve got a President who jokes ab...

Justice Bradley's speech to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices and the nuances of identifying the workplace bully.

Here 's the original document, the typed-up speech that Justice Ann Walsh Bradley gave to the assembled Justices 2 days after the so-cal...

Is there a video camera that you don't turn off in exactly the same way you turn it on?

Meade and I have failed to record so many things that we thought we were catching because of this limitation. There's a button that you ...

There's a mysterious drop in malaria-carrying mosquitoes in some parts of Africa, and some say maybe it's because of climate change.

Oh, no! Global warming is bad bad bad! Maybe it's causing Hurricane Irene! “Irene’s got a middle name, and it’s Global Warming,” environ...

3 big Obama fund-raisers in the Hamptons are threatened by Hurricane Irene.

Will this beleaguered man's troubles never end? I t's as if all of nature is aligned against him! Where is the mercy? Irene! Hit No...

The schoolgirls have "meltdowns" when mom packs the lunch in ziploc bags.

Because the girls "don't want to be shamed" at school. Because enviromentalism is the religion taught in public schools, and i...

At the Blue Door Café...

... come on in, and don't be sad!

United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms.

The Fish and Wildlife Service agents come after the manufacturer of electric guitars. And why you don't want to travel outside of the co...

I've finally waded through the "chokehold" investigation file.

Maybe you didn't notice all the summary and quotation I produced in the form of updates to the post titled "There never was a ...