Memorial Union Terrace, the night before the big game.

Anticipating the big game.

The fans are fortifying themselves with brats and beer: The merchants are purveying special T-shirts: This one made us laugh a lot: And in t...

NYT has a big article on the on the Wisconsin-Nebraska game, with copious info about the "Jump Around."

The origin, the history, the engineering. It's all here : In 1998, during the first night homecoming game for Wisconsin, Kluender was lo...

The Brooklyn police officer "pointed at my outfit and said, 'Don't you think your shorts are a little short?'"

"He also stopped two other women wearing dresses... pointed at their dresses and said they were showing a lot of skin." He said th...

"Sexist Obama?"

A Bloggingheads clip makes the NYT.

The scholarly press book... "isn’t dead; it is undead."

Says Kathleen Fitzpatrick. IN THE COMMENTS: Yashu says: While Fitzpatrick makes some good points (e.g. about problems with the peer review p...

At the Chrysanthemum Café...

... it's still quite early.

"This is a clash of two historically hemp producing states... Both Nebraska and Wisconsin had thriving hemp industries."

When Football Saturday meets the Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival.

"History of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics."

Hey, you missed " Papa Oom Mow Mow" and the doo doo songs... Police ... and Stones ... Anybody remember when Yale Law Journal dev...

If Obama wants a "Nixon goes to China" opportunity, here it is!

Instapundit has this: NPR: New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota. “Two years ago, America was importing about two thirds of its o...

"Come on, can’t you hear the keystrokes clicking by somebody over at Fox or Althouse just so eager to defend this next 'brave young person' who dared to 'tell the truth' at Harvard Law School?"

Somebody over at Althouse ? I'm the only one here. I've been solo-blogging with nary a guest blogger for nigh on 8 years. If you...

Email from Barack Obama, subject line: "Last chance at dinner."

Obama the boyfriend is at it again: Ann -- Because you and I don't have a lot of chances to have dinner together... Absurd!

Should Obama hope he loses the Obamacare case in the Supreme Court?

Mickey Kaus says: If the law is as unpopular as it seems to be, and if the individual mandate is “the most hated piece of the law,” then th...

"Did UW-Madison's diversity chief incite students?"

Deborah Ziff asks: Talk show host Bill O'Reilly called him "a loon." The head of a conservative think tank said he fed student...

"Republican bigots and the candidates who encourage hate."

Another dishonest, embarrassing editorial in the venerable Madison rag known as the Capitol Times. A clue to the clueless: One man booed, ...

"A lawyer who donated sperm to pay his way through college has learned that he has fathered an astonishing 70 children."

"More than 15 of those have already attempted to contact 33-year-old Ben Seisler. The donor confessed to his fiancée as part of a new ...

"Look, if you put the Internet on the device I am supposed to be using to read, I will never read again."

"Can you blame me? I am only human. I can’t focus. If all these studies about multitasking have taught us anything, it is that we all t...

Mental self-government: "People with a legislative style like to come up with their own ideas and to do things in their own way..."

"... people with an executive style prefer to be given more structure and guidance or even told what to do; people with a judicial styl...

At the Water Lily Café...

... let the conversation flow.

"The Obama Administration's hostility to oil and gas exploration is well known, but last week it took an especially fowl turn."

"The U.S. Attorney for North Dakota hauled seven oil and natural gas companies into federal court for killing 28 migratory birds that w...

Anderson Cooper tries coffee for the first time and calls it "watery."

He also eats spinach for the first time and calls it "slithery." 

"If I disagree with someone, then someone says, 'Oh, there goes Justice Prosser violating collegiality.'"

Said Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, resisting taking the "collegiality pledge" proposed by Chief Justice Shirley A...

Death by cantaloupe.

Do you realize that before cutting into a cantaloupe, you're supposed to scrub it with a brush and dry it with a clean cloth or paper t...

Obama, the boys' club man who, on graduating from Harvard Law School, felt drawn into "personal journaling."

In a diavlog about Obama's problem with women, I'm trying to figure out what makes a man a man's man, especially when the man is...

"Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts."

"I've found that the very qualities we're most ashamed of, the ones we keep trying to reshape or hide, are in fact the key to f...

A "more insidious form of racism" — relacing the old "naked, egregious and aggressive" racism — is now undermining Barack Obama.

As perceived in The Nation by polisci prof Melissa Harris-Perry: Not only did white Democratic voters prove willing to support a black candi...

At the Tomato Spider Café...

... you can lurk here until dawn.

"I remain unsure that there just are five justices at the high court eager to have the court itself become an election-year issue.."

Says Dahlia Lithwick: And I am not certain that the short-term gain of striking down some or part of the ACA (embarrassing President Obama e...

Obama's female trouble.

ADDED: Here , I extract a 2-minute clip in which I question what makes a man a man's man and refer to "Dreams From My Father" ...

"As the testimony proceeded, Mr. Loughner rarely made eye contact with others in the courtroom, sometimes peering at the witness out of the corner of his eye."

"For the most part, he remained stone-faced and still in his seat. Every now and then, his eyes would close for extended periods, then ...

On the last night of the baseball season, both wild cards are on the line.

Justin Sablich is live-blogging. The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays are tied for the American League Wild Card lead while the St. Louis C...

At the Deep Gray Café...

... things can't be this gloomy.

No criminal misconduct by the Waukesha County Clerk in the WI Supreme Court election.

Law broken, but not willfully. Sorry if this seems like inane trivia to most of you out there in the land of not-Madison. It's a big de...

"Democrat Governor Bev Perdue of NC Wasn't Joking: She Wants to Cancel the 2012 Congressional Elections."

I haven't blogged about this story yet because I've been assuming she had to be joking, since it's such an incredibly stupid thi...

The new color Kindle.

The Kindle Fire. Is it better than an iPad? It's clearly cheaper. It's also lighter (413 grams as compared to 601 grams). A big issu...

Obama's Infrastructure Stimulus — designed to build masculine pride.

Here's a fascinating passage from Ron Suskind's new book "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a Presi...

Florida is about to move its primary up to January.

Is that crazy? Florida's move would directly violate RNC rules that forbid any state other than the first four "carve-out" st...

Anita Perry, "a quiet feminine force," " a nurse first, first lady second."

A profile in the NYT.

"Nearly every professional woman has had the experience of saying something in a meeting, receiving no response..."

"... and then listening as a male colleague offers the same thought or suggestion minutes later to great acclaim. The first time it hap...

At the Water Bird Café...

... it's too soon to leave.

See, this is what happens when you get people's hopes up.

Link.

Obama does a great job reacting to a heckler who calls him the Antichrist.

He waits calmly, while the crowd defty shifts from denouncing the heckler to chanting "4 more years. " When he finally deigns to s...

"If I don't call you."

Subject line on email from Barack Obama.

"I will buy a pink Segway before I spend a nickle on any goddamn government car.."

"... Including a ZR-1. U.S. OUT OF DETROIT." I had to Google ZR-1. Then , I screamed. But I've got to say: If the Segway hadn...

"Nominees for the 2012 class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Non-Country Popular Music of the 1950s and Beyond Hall of Fame."

"First-time nominees include Heart, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, The Cure, The Spinners, Eric B. & Rakim, Guns N' Roses, th...

3 happiness paths.

Are you doing any or all of these? • Feeling good. Seeking pleasurable emotions and sensations, from the hedonistic model of happiness put f...

"It is hard to write good songs that are sad without being needlessly dramatic."

"First, he is jilted and this makes him suicidal. I get that. This leads him to flashback to his parents' deaths and how all of th...

All right, all you laggards in the drive for gay rights: The good, as symbolized by football, has been defined.

The NFL prohibits discrimination against players based on sexual orientation , and George Atallah, spokesman for the NFLPA, says: "We c...

"The Constitution is the rules; politics is the game."

"The alternatives to organized political contention are anarchy or sheep-like passivity." Richard Brookhiser speaks in one aphoris...

"Rick Perry just never does well in debates. He never has. He doesn't win debates, but, boy, does he win elections!"

The standard spin for Rick Perry, as articulated by Rush Limbaugh, who goes on to analyze it this way : Okay, look, I totally understand spi...

Is Huntsman about to get McCottered?

He can't seem to hit the threshold — 2% in the polls — for inclusion in the next debate. That's what ended the candidacy of Thaddeu...

About that anti-cheese billboard going up in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

There's some opposition, and not just from cheesemakers. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has a depiction of the Grim ...

It's intermission.

You can talk about anything you want.

Sarah Palin threatens to sue Random House over "Rogue."

Ha. I said it the other day: "Let's focus on Random House, the venerable publishing house."

"The Left – Still Confused by School Choice."

"It is a sign of the sorry state of Wisconsin’s political discourse that a legislator drawing upon professional expertise to create non...

Scalia scoffs at lawsuit challenging sex segregation in dorms.

The lawsuit, against Catholic University, which got rid of coed dorms, is based on D.C.’s Human Rights Act. Scalia, speaking at Duquesne L...

Unlimited, instant streaming of video for Amazon Prime members...

... interesting! I have Amazon Prime already just for the shipping of actual things. This is really nice.

"'Firefly' and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus."

Instapundit highlights this story from UW—Stout, stressing the threat of criminal charges against a professor who put a quote from the TV s...

"Althouse is now bookmarked."

Thanks, Peanutbutter! The picture of the blonde woman now makes sense also. Looking at that blog I see that they are talking about a lot of ...

At the Snakeroot Café...

... you can find your own path. (Correction: It's snake root , not snakewort.)

Any chance courts might say the West Hollywood ban on selling fur violates the Constitution?

Only in Ilya Somin's dreams: If the law is challenged, judges will probably conclude that there is at least some “rational basis” for it...

Roger Ebert, quoting John Waters: "If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't f**k them."

A stark tweet. In the future, all the books will be ebooks, and it will be so much harder for Ebert and Waters to discern who deserves their...

Accusations of vote buying in the Wisconsin recall elections.

Daniel Bice writes: [I]t is clear the Milwaukee County district attorney's office is investigating charges that Wisconsin Right to Life ...

"Arad’s inexorably powerful, enigmatically abstract pair of abyss-like pools, which demarcate the foundations of the lost Twin Towers..."

"... comes as a surprise to those of us who doubted that the chaotic and desultory reconstruction of Ground Zero could yield anything ...

"Mr. Christie's aides say the governor hasn't budged from his months-long insistence that he won't enter the presidential fray..."

"... despite what one described as a 'relentless' stream of calls over the last week from prominent Republicans urging him to r...

What's going on in Wisconsin?

It's like a hurricane. (Did that make you think this ?)

President Obama and the rhetoric of shoes.

A couple days ago, speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus, President Obama said: "Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your march...

U.S. News decides — after a 2 year study — that it's not going to change the way it does its rankings.

"That's what the head of the rankings said here Friday at a session of the annual meeting of the National Association for College A...

At the Twilight Café...

... crane your attention over here.

Romney crushes Perry in the Michigan straw poll.

"Romney received 51 percent of the 681 votes cast, a whopping 34-percentage point victory over second-place Perry, who garnered 17 perc...

King Abdullah, giving women the right to vote: "Balanced modernization, which falls within our Islamic values...."

"... is an important demand in an era where there is no place for defeatist or hesitant people." The news today, from Saudi Arabi...

I get the feeling you might want to talk about Herman Cain.

He won the Florida straw poll . By a lot. Cain's landslide victory, with 37 percent of the vote, exceeded the combined total for Perry a...

"They have taken our democracy and formed it into a 'kleptocracy.'"

Michael Moore explains the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in NYC and incites viewers to take the protest to their local bank: "...

"Take off your bedroom slippers... stop complaining..."

Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Award Dinner. He's trying to be inspiring but... look at the expression on his face i...

"Abolishing capital punishment in a kind of despair over its fallibility would... would tell the public that our laws and courts and juries are fundamentally incapable of delivering what most Americans consider genuine justice.."

Ross Douthat write: It could encourage a more cynical and utilitarian view of why police forces and prisons exist, and what moral standards ...

"They’re still throwing them in there... I wish he just would have dropped it, that’s all."

A life dramatically altered by one penalty flag, now over, after only 40 years.

A very entertaining dance.

You will not be disappointed: (Via Metafilter .)

"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

Finley Peter Dunne, quoted in "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present." Meade just read th...

Judges and law students experience a free market... or as the NYT calls it, "a lawless terrain."

It's clerkship time. I mean, it was, when it was, which was not when they said it was. Which was oh-so-stressful for some really terribl...

Why stop with Boltage? I recommend Voltage!

Citizen Dave (formerly Madison's Mayor Dave) thinks children could be helped with their "incredible... obesity" if the gover...

Prof. Donald Downs demands answers from the University of Wisconsin about the Doubletree protest against Roger Clegg.

Noting the university's vaunted devotion to "sifting and winnowing," he writes: There is a key First Amendment distinction bet...

At the Meadhouse Harvest Café...

... have you gathered anything yet?

"With so many ways of performing blackness, there is now no consensus about what it is or should be."

Writes Orlando Patterson: One of his goals, Touré writes in “Who’s Afraid of Post-­Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now,” is “to attack...

Righties and lefties get together at Harvard Law School to make common cause over the notion of a constitutional convention.

Boston Herald reports: Speakers representing a broad swath of American political thought are coming from the Green Party, the Cato Institute...

The night the Milwaukee fans rooted for the Chicago Cubs.

The Brewers had already won the game the fans came to see.... And then thousands of jubilant fans, eager to celebrate the Brewers' first...

I have listened to the video several times, and I stand by my perception that only one person audibly yells "boo."

I hear a loud "boo," then a difficult to decipher noise — which could be an ugh response to the booer — and then a little more of...

James Taranto: "Rick Perry was awful in last night's debate. Just awful."

"The swaggering Texas governor kept scrapping with the chipper Mitt Romney, and he kept losing.... The low point came when he seized on...

Chris Christie may run for the GOP nomination.

A decision is forthcoming. "I think what the country is thirsting for, more than anything else right now, is someone of stature and cr...

The Meadhouse harvest continues.

The "parent trigger" law lets 51% of parents petition to change a failing school and replace all the teachers or close it or turn it into a charter school.

A strange experiment going on in a California, Texas, Ohio, and Connecticut (and under consideration in many more states): In essence, the l...

"California Jury Convicts 10 Muslim Students of Interrupting Campus Speech."

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: The students interrupted a February 2010 speech by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the Un...

A Meadhouse harvest.

Sara Goldrick-Rab imposes a racial critique on last week's affirmative-action protest at the Doubletree Hotel.

Remember last Tuesday: Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity had a press conference to announce 2 studies that, he said, showed th...