"In my country, terawatt globes are reserved for police helicopter chases and warning sailors of hazardous shoals. This is despite the ...
Oh, it will be over soon .
An image from the Rijksmuseum , which has a fine website , where I was browsing in the owls ... owlsing in the browls ... I really don'...
A headline at Al Arabiya News reports on the ugly: Commenting on the super-storm disaster, one person who identifies himself as a professor ...
... take off that dog costume right now! UPDATE: A bunch of kids came to the door just now, and I was all "Is he a lamb? Are you a ram?...
I'm told Blogads is going through some maintenance, and it's not Blogger's fault, so refrain from your usual accusations. The Bl...
Look out!
Wrote Letitia Baldrige, in her "New Manners for New Times." She died on Monday, at the age of 86.
"It's easier to laugh about it than to think about how State House coverage is dying," said Daniel Moraff, a Brown student and...
Top Comments at YouTube: Now he's plagiarizing from porno scripts?? And: He learned that saying hanging around with Bill Clinton Based...
"... everything would descend into chaos. But perhaps free people are generally capable of acting decently on their own. Of course, tha...
"Did the Secretary of Defense countermand the President’s directive? Did the President rescind his own directive? Or — and I hate to as...
Said the prosecutor in his opening statement of the trial of a boy who shot his neo-Nazi father. But Public Defender Matthew Hardy said the...
"Many precious reagents -- special enzymes, antibodies, DNA strands -- generated by scientists and stored at -80 degrees and -20 degree...
"Gov. Scott Walker's power to oversee the rule-making authority of the state superintendent of public instruction, which he signed ...
"I do not know how old Nate Silver is or anything about Nate Silver’s existence. I am not even sure Nate Silver is his real name. That ...
"... and an MSNBC anchor is disgusted by it because the Red Cross would prefer people donating cash" ... even with the large video...
You've seen Bingo and Joey . Here's Zeus:
"... a senior Conservative energy minister admitted last night as he warned 'enough is enough.'" John Hayes said that we c...
Says Newt Gingrich, reporting what he emphasizes is "a rumor." "But they were a group in real-time trying to mobilize marines...
Video. Reading Morris's explanation below the video at the link, I see that — spoiler alert! — everyone in the video is actually going ...
"And then you get down here and it is like entering a zombie movie." The dividing line in Manhattan is 25th Street. What is the ma...
"Law Profs back President Obama over Mitt Romney 72% to 19%..." 19%! That's huge! I'm stunned! Actually, it's not a ve...
"The paranoia that would accompany a delay (this close to the election) would be too destructive, even if the delay was justifiable. Bu...
"Romney is more of a flexible flip-flopper than Obama. He has more influence over the most intransigent element in the Washington equat...
... self-healing.
"... spreading blizzard or near-blizzard conditions over parts of Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina,...
We're told the idea is "to engage students who are not specifically interested in diversity issues to think about the issue on a br...
"... now has Mitt Romney on top, 48% to 47%, with the Republican benefiting from his debate performances."
Something I said in the comments to an October 2008 post titled "So, I've been thinking of getting a dog...." Note that I met...
"... on Monday, but not one quite as steep as many had anticipated," observes Adam Liptak at the NYT . The question in the case wa...
... to everyone who made purchases through my Amazon portal in the month of October. Believe me, I notice the gesture of support for this b...
"It also establishes an elaborate and expensive network of special programs to promote women’s health. Programs for men are nowhere to ...
".... they must tell us something about the nature of a fetus that makes the state’s interest in protecting it more compelling than its...
"Early risers stepped out into debris-littered streets that remained mostly deserted as residents awaited dawn to shed light on the ext...
"When the sample is narrowed to likely voters, the balance of opinion shifts slightly in Romney’s direction, as it did in early October...
"There are no limits here... this is your world... you're the Creator..." It's the 70th birthday of the late Bob Ross ... ...
An item at FrontPageMag.com: Several sources have pointed to the possibility that a major CIA gun-running operation aimed at arming anti-Ass...
We've been getting great results using the cooking-with-water method — doubt it, but try it! — and the Wellshire dry-rub center-cut bac...
"... threatened a volunteer for Pocan’s Republican opponent days before the volunteer was found beaten. Last Wednesday, Kyle Wood, a fu...
"The National Weather Service... says waves on Lake Michigan could be 10 to 18 feet by Monday afternoon, then build to 20 to 33 feet on...
Staring at the polls too long. What's going to happen in Wisconsin? Who'll take the Electoral College? My guess is: Obama will squea...
According to Stanley Kurtz , it's a plot to realign the electorate, "creating a long-term Democratic majority that would allow him ...
One of my theories is that Obama was preoccupied by what had happened in Benghazi 3 weeks ago, perhaps scrambling to keep it from turning in...
I explain why the answer is probably no, and that if it were yes, it would hurt the GOP: This clip begins with an explanation of what Chief ...
Bob Wright and I talk about that (recorded yesterday): I explain my coastal cities theory .
Sandy's coming , and the waters may flow up into the low-lying East Coast cities. If coastal cities flood and the people there — who are...
Always one to pick up and run with a trend, she changed to : "Seriously, I don't care who you vote for.... Do not take this privile...
"... after more than two decades in prison for molesting other children. Jose Ramos was declared responsible for Etan’s death in a civi...
Robert Reich hyperventilates. There's a lot of that going on lately from the Obama side, and it's hard not to read that as a sign t...
On Fox News Sunday today , the Wisconsin Senator made it all about Benghazi. The moderator gave him the last word after a long colloquy, inc...
Listen closely. I know Democrats are always thinking about pregnancy, but this is hilarious: The Colorado governor obviously intended to ref...
Colorado Senator Mark Udall indulged in a bit of hyperbole (and metaphor) — Fox News Sunday this morning — to describe where Obama found him...
"What we already know about Benghazi is a scandal of the highest order..." ... the ambassador asked for more security after a seri...
There's something so tragically lame about this: To be fair, it clicks through to a gallery of past endorsements that makes it glaringl...
"Unfortunately Ambassador Stevens was already gravely injured, and Foreign Service officer, Sean Smith, was dead. However, due to their...
We're snug at home this evening, while the revelry goes on here in Madison, but earlier this evening, we took a walk downtown, and we en...
"Our discussion repeatedly circled back to the nation’s single most important challenge:" pulling the economy out of the doldrums,...
I find the enunciation a bit difficult here. Who are they blaming? I had to read the lyrics — here — to figure out that they were blaming c...
Is there anyone who has ever thought that this was anything but a joke? Crooks and Liars is laughing at the "morons" who believe...
... think of something to say.
Paul Krugman has gone desperately juvenile.
An interesting Dan Savage rant about Halloween. Sorry there's no transcript, but click to listen and begin at 0:59. He takes on those w...
Consider the use of the old Lesley Gore song — "You Don't Own Me" — for political, pro-Obama purposes: Now, I love old Lesley...
"Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 whether those feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked responde...
Does that mean we can't criticize the Obama campaign for that Lena Dunham ad anymore? Possible arguments: 1. Reagan was talking to guys...
Romney's up 6 in today's Rasmussen swing-state poll . The last time anyone was up 6 in this poll, it was October 4 and Obama. That m...
In New Zealand , where the senior court official said: "Child abuse is family violence in these circumstances, and it is clear this bab...
The GOP goes after Obama, using Obama's own line, from 2008: "If you don't have a record to run on, you make a big election abo...
!["For Tammy Baldwin to attack [Tommy Thompson] on anything related to Sept. 11 is so hypocritical, she should be ashamed of herself..."](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5bwR2e7eCZM/default.jpg)
Said Rudy Giuliani yesterday. Baldwin ran an ad this week... saying Thompson personally profited from the attacks by making $3 million from ...
The last debate, streaming here. UPDATE: Debate over. Site delinked.
Says Kevin Drum (at Mother Jones), displaying a chart that's been "making the rounds." Democrats tend to rely on paid, profess...
William Kristol: "So who in the government did tell 'anybody' not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in milita...
Says the lawyer for Gilberto Valle , the NY police officer arrested for kidnapping conspiracy. He "created a document on his computer, ...
New Rasmussen poll. If Romney wins Wisconsin and New Hampshire, he'll win the Electoral College even without Ohio. Right?
"There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here," said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. "But the basic princ...
... to the father of one of the former Navy SEALs killed in Benghazi. Charles Woods, father of Tyrone Woods... recounted his interactions wi...
A strange combination of terms of years, as if one could serve in public office while yet in prison . Hard to believe the man will actually ...
She's interviewed on video here , by Glenn Reynolds. Most of the interview is about art in America and her new book "Glittering Ima...
Says Scott Rasmussen. ADDED: Speaking of Rasmussen, the Rasmussen tracking poll today is the same as yesterday — Romney 50%, Obama 47% — wh...
"Through it all he was confident—'Eric, don't call my bluff'—because he believed, as did his staff, that his talents would...
Said Kyle Wood , a volunteer for Chad Lee (R), who is running against Mark Pocan (D), for the House seat in my district here in Wisconsin. I...
Here's the NYT obit for the grand historian/culture critic. Maybe you read his marvelous "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Wes...
"Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, i...
With this ad, featuring Lena Dunham (of the HBO show "Girls"): So, really, who do you want to have sex with, ladies? That is the q...
"... plans a series of modest but quick accomplishments if he were inaugurated, and is preparing for the likelihood that he will butt h...
Nothing.
"Someone might have told you something they shouldn’t have told you, and you have to be prepared to use it because it will make a great...
Because, you must understand, "a body in motion tends to stay in motion. That is, it ought to imply that a candidate is gaining ground ...
"Step one: get a good grip on the neck frill."
"There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows. "
Embryonic bat version.
Drudge has everyone pointing: (Click to enlarge.) "'HE'S A BULLSHITTER'" goes to a Weekly Standard item , quoting Oba...
Frederick Douglass, quoted by Clarence Thomas .
"... which is of the like nature, in order clearly to penetrate the things of heaven. I should have discovered nothing, had I remained ...
"Maybe our whole land is in danger. What can we do?"
They've got nothing on him, so they call him nothing . Ah, well, Obama's opponents call him Zero. that makes it Nothing vs. Zero . *...
"... wigs, period costumes and rubber prostheses, is playing which man—or woman—while the viewer-unfriendly screenplay squirts and spla...
