Cocoliquot.

A cool new restaurant in Madison, specializing in small plates. A tiny coq au vin in a crepe. A little risotto. A cold (!) omelette. A trio ...

The oral argument in the abortion case.

David Stout reports: Justice Souter challenged [New Hampshire attorney general, Kelly Ayotte's] assertion that a doctor who performed an...

Do you buy Christmas presents for yourself?

I'd heard some women do that. (Maybe men do it too.) Now, advertisers are openly encouraging the behavior with copy like this: "Be...

"Poppy isn't getting Junior back, Vice vowed, muttering: 'He's my son. It's my war. It's my country.'"

Sad that you can't get to Maureen Dowd's column? She's Dowding it up big time today. ( TimesSelect link .) By the way, in the pa...

"Finish" is an exquisite word choice.

"Finish the war" means something different from "end the war," right? Or will it mean whatever you need it to mean, late...

Unintended comedy, economic news reporting division.

The NYT just needs to bring us down , for some reason. All the economic news is good, but Vikas Bajaj, on the front page of the paper today,...

"You think loners are weird? I think couples a weird."

Says a loner to Nina , provoking her to consider appreciating loner-tude... rather skeptically it seems to me. Is there a he's-just-not-...

"Isn’t it the right of citizens of the state to answer this question?"

Yesterday there was a long, crowded hearing at the Wisconsin Capitol. The subject: a resolution to amend the state constitution to preclude...

"Does your emphasis on authority give any substance to the claim ... that conservatism is repressive and dictatorial?"

Marking the 25th anniversary of " The Meaning of Conservatism ," Right Reason interviews Roger Scruton .

Not 35 million, 77 million.

A death toll, reestimated. (Via No Speed Bumps .)

Live-blogging the Alito panel.

Readers were hoping for a podcast of the big panel we had tonight at the Law School about the Alito nomination, but I couldn't make that...

"An unremarkable use" of the spending power or "a core violation of the First Amendment"?

Yale lawprof William Eskridge and George Mason Dean Daniel Polsby are debating about the Solomon Amendment case -- FAIR v. Rumsfeld -- whic...

"The reaction from many bloggers has been nothing less than scathing."

The Christian Science Monitor has a big article on Pajamas Media: Though Pajamas Media is bringing even more attention - and possibly a new...

"I am happy to let everyone sort themselves into whatever Nozickian communities they want."

Says Andy Morriss , taking issue with my criticism of the plan to wrest Ave Maria, a nicely established new law school, from its current pl...

Senate Democrates have "rebuffed, rebuked and rejected" civil rights and women's groups opposed to Roberts and Alito.

Says AP's David Espo: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, chairman of the Senate Democrats...

"I'd probably call it an afterthought. It was, 'Oh yeah, by the way, you don't have to do it.' "

Such was the attention to the subject of abstinence in sex education in one Wisconsin high school, as described by a current UW student. No...

Alito panel.

Here at the law school tonight, the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society are hosting a panel discusion about the Alito n...

"UK scientists have identified the part of the brain that determines whether a person perceives themselves as fat."

Would that be the part connected to the eyeballs? Oh, I'm just being mean, and this is the second post today about fat people. ( Althou...

Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Miles Davis, Blondie.

The new inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Do you approve? Note that Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd got rejected the first seve...

Abortion case to be argued tomorrow.

Linda Greenhouse writes about Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England: When the Supreme Court meets on Wednesday to hear its f...

"'The Wall' is where you don't want to put any more in your mouth."

Said Ian Hickman , who competes in eating contests. You have to train for these things! First he'll fill up on liquids. Then "I...

Too many opinions, too few cases -- can't the Supreme Court do better?

Jason Mazzone draws attention to the Supreme Court's glaring problem: Last term, the Supreme Court issued opinions in just 74 cases. Th...

Four truths about Bob Woodward.

Her unique personal situation enables Nora Ephron to discern: Truth #1: Bob is not a liar. ... Truth #2: Bob has always had trouble seeing ...

Unintentional humor: "My Best Friend's Wedding."

We're watching " My Best Friend's Wedding ," which looks beautiful on HDTV, on Showtime, right now. And we just dissolved ...

"He did the worst thing an elected official can do."

" He enriched himself through his position and violated the trust of those who put him there."

"Who’s the real whore here?"

Steve H. is talking about me. In a good way. MORE: There's a Wikipedia entry for Pajamas Media, now, and not only am I discussed unde...

In Dubai: compulsory hormone injections for gay men.

Andrew Sullivan links to this disturbing news report from Dubai : The Interior Ministry said police raided a hotel chalet earlier this mont...

Tim Blair quits Pajamas Media!

You knew someone would be the first to jump ship. Did you think it would be Tim? TO BE CLEAR: Blair has withdrawn from the Editorial Board....

Scientists say "romantic love" lasts one year.

Face reality. You are just some chemicals: The University of Pavia found a brain chemical was likely to be responsible for the first flush o...

"And, man, I was gratified when the fab chicks screamed."

Janet Maslin writes about -- sorry, he's an old Althouse favorite -- Donovan: In his prime, the astral singer-songwriter Donovan appear...

"More people seem to be interested in movie grosses than in the movies."

Mark Steyn writes. Yes, it's strange, isn't it? Maybe the reason for the box office slump is that all the talk about box office mak...

What can you infer from a single incident?

Crooked Timber is talking about the Madison incident involving third grade teachers assigning their students to write letters calling for w...

"It's like having a bum living in your house."

Larry David (in tonight's episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm") saying what it's like to have a dog. I also liked his contemp...

Audible Althouse, #23.

Finally, the podcast is back . #23 has: the Thanksgiving squirrel, the Thanksgiving salmon, bedbugs, metaphorical vermin, the dog-eat-dog wo...

"See, here's what I don't understand...."

I was just scanning the Pajamas Media discussion boards and ran across this comment: I *very* much agree that the site needs to be bloggier...

War poll: "55 percent believe criticism hurts morale, while 21 percent say it helps morale."

WaPo reports: The results surely will rankle many Democrats, who argue that it is patriotic and supportive of the troops to call attention t...

"Put on this wig and believe."

A photographer spends six years finding 1,431 persons to put on a big, curly, black wig and pose: "The wig was perfect because it was ...

The LSD-inspired Beatles theme park that might have been.

The Jane and Michael Stern review Bob Spitz's new book "The Beatles." They like it a lot. I've picked out this detail to ...

Editing "Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever" for 1991 sensibilities.

Here 's a Flickr set detailing the differences between "Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever," 1963 edition, and "Ric...

Stories of surviving the tsunami.

An eight-part article in the NYT Magazine. Sample: At first, [Sambiyo] thought a ghost might be luring him into the slough. For the past ho...

"My biggest goal and biggest ambition in life was to be a great conversationalist."

Says Isaac Mizrahi. "I care about clothes and design, but more than anything I care about being this unscripted personality." I l...

Ah! Sex and chess, the eternal subject.

I'm just trying to picture the guys who are thrilled by the idea of a World Chess Beauty Contest . Found via the NYT, which has a giant ...

"Metcalf died in 2003 at age 45 while living in a replica of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate built in Corbin, Kentucky."

The fate of a powerball winner. Now, Metcalf's ex-wife -- they separated on hitting the lottery -- has been found lying dead in her hou...

"That new mattress delivered from a reputable department store, which kindly hauled away your old one? "

"It may have spent all day in a truck wedged against an old mattress collected from a customer with a bedbug problem." "Anyon...

Breakthrough of the week.

When I see someone's talking about me on another blog, I don't click over and read. This is life in the blogosphere. At some point, ...

Tedious seasonal news reports.

I have a rule: I change the channel/click the mouse when I see the word "tryptophan."

"The Apprentice."

Spoilers follow, of course! So, our dear boy Adam is gone, and for the first time no white male makes it to the final episode. No white male...

"Poverty and Prostitution."

The NYT profiles Massoud Dehnamaki, whom it calls "Iran's Michael Moore": Reformists and conservatives alike harshly criticiz...

"Salmon, lentils, rice with almonds and a salad of parsley, tomatoes, cucumbers and bulgur wheat."

What the war protesters ate for Thanksgiving dinner to express something or other. Get it? They built a stone (concrete?) monument to them...

Fiber, function, flexibility, freedom, fashion.

In 1924, the Englishman George Mallory and Andrew (Sandy) Irvine died trying to climb Mount Everest. A photograph taken at base camp showed...

The perils of trying to cheer Germans up about Germany.

The slogan you dream up -- "Du Bist Deutschland -- You Are Germany" -- turns out to be a slogan the Nazis used. You spend $34 mi...

Did you read great books this year?

The NYT chooses 100 notable books for 2005. Can you recommend any of these? I've only read "Freakonomics" and parts of "...

Miss Penitentiary.

Just something they do in Brazil.

"I feel my blog evolving."

"I’m not sure how it’s evolving, and I’m interested to find out." Beautiful. As ever. No one else ever wrote two sentences that m...

Before you link to a blog...

...do you look around a while to make sure there isn't a post that depicts an act of violence against you? Me neither. Ever link to a bl...

Fending off rabid attack poodles.

I really appreciate these two comments from Wombat Rampant. First: I don't think I'll be dropping by the OSM portal much because I t...

I wish our teachers would (educate/indoctrinate) our children.

The news from Bennington, Vermont: A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that include...

No more Madonna and Child Christmas stamps?

Darleen discovers. To know my mom is to know that she has never indulged in cutesy stuff. Every year she always selects the Christmas stamp...

The Pajamas Media Discussion Board.

Here . Set up by Laurence Simon , whose nerve I've recently praised . Now everyone can blogjam about the Pajamas Entity. UPDATE: Over on...

"Admission and Exclusion" at elite universities.

Michiko Kakutani reviews "The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton," by Berkeley ...

Kazakhstan versus Borat.

Has there ever been a funnier idea for a lawsuit than Kazakhstan suing Sacha Baron Cohen for playing the character Borat? Responding in cha...

Surprise! Nixon had qualms about mass nuclear destruction.

The NYT reports: Widely considered a military hawk, President Richard M. Nixon fretted privately over the notion of any no-holds-barred nucl...

"Unprepared? Been There, Done That."

Michael Brown is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm.

"They have no idea what they want to be or why they exist."

Concludes Jeff Jarvis upon reading the self-criticism session over at Pajamas Media. The Pajamas insiders are openly discussing their prob...

A movie and a new policy.

What movie did we watch for Thanksgiving? "Boogie Nights." Appropriate? No. But we just felt like watching it. What a great film! ...

"The M&Ms float crashed. Oh the humanity! As God is my witness, I thought M&Ms could fly."

That's the reaction in the Pajamas Media live blogging when a Thanksgiving Parade balloon crashes and falls, along with a streetlight i...

"We have a tight community with a private language, and Althouse ... doesn't get that."

So says a commenter, over at Kos , who thinks he's explaining that I was unfair to the commenters over at Eschaton . Hello? They were at...