Wall paintings of Greenwich Village.

ADDED: The last 2 pictures are actually from SoHo. The second and third pictures are details from a mural signed by Rico Fonseca.

Dogs of SoHo.

Some are just getting the hang of things: While others have seen it all:

Justice Clarence Thomas on "60 Minutes."

"I was never a liberal. I was radical," he says, talking about how difficult it was for him to go to work for a Republican after h...

I flirt with death.

Dell poses in the graveyard: We know a lot, but we're not saying anything: Reflect:

Contemplating the past.

A visit.

The Architecture of Blue.

Street café... male model...

Unnaked man.

Anatomy of Love.

Coffeehouse.

It's a beautiful Saturday, 60°. We've got things to do, places to go. Back eventually, with pictures. But this post will be your cof...

Shorts.

Tort.

Friday... dusk.

Are you settled in for your blessed weekend?

Late last night on 5th Avenue.

An exercise in ignoring the obvious.

Judith Warner responds to the critics of her "Thelma and Louise" column -- which we discussed here , and has not one word to say ...

"She was not the demure, religious, conservative person that they portrayed. That's not the person I knew."

"She could defend herself, let's just put it that way... She did not take slights very kindly and anyone who did anything, she resp...

5th Avenue glow.

I had to go into Manhattan this evening for a little event. Afterwards, I walked down 5th Avenue for a few blocks before hailing a cab back ...

"If it was any other president, honestly, I would go to court. I happen to be Albanian, and he helped my people."

Says Nino Selimaj . An Italian-restaurant owner - who's in the soup for displaying a picture of him with Chelsea Clinton outside his Vil...

"George Harrison's music and his search for spiritual meaning is a story that still resonates today and I'm looking forward to delving deeper."

Says Martin Scorsese , who's making a documentary about -- making his camera gently weep for? -- the Quiet Beatle .

Oh, no! From the air the Navy building looks like a swastika!

So... do you want to spend $600,000 to soften the edges with trees and stuff? The building has been around since the 60s, but no one noticed...

Could your guilty pleasures be a little guiltier?

Jeez. Studying languages, landscape restoration, yoga toes .... The question wasn't now tell us how charmingly wonderful you are! (Via ...

Is this any way to treat...

... Juan Williams? IN THE COMMENTS: Madison Man asks what Juan Williams thinks of this. The answer is here : Williams said yesterday he was ...

Who will get us out of Iraq? Not I, said the Senator.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards ... did you hear how they talked about Iraq last night? Key quotes: "I think it's hard ...

Burma.

Not Myanmar.

"I am a dating disaster."

Says Abby Ellin, who hired a "dating coach" to get over this attitude: The thought of meeting a stranger, sitting through a drink...

Bible verses the candidates didn't cite.

Last night at the big debate, Tim Russert asked each of the Democratic candidates to recite their favorite Bible verse. They all made a stab...

"Imagine you were walking down a city street, and someone leapt from behind a tree and hit you so hard that you fell to the sidewalk unconscious."

"Would you later describe that as a fight?" The Jena prosecutor ably defends his choices.

Big debate tonight.

Did you know? Well, pay attention. And comment here, if you're watching. UPDATE: Is anyone watching? Based on the comments so far the a...

Can Senator Larry Craig withdraw his guilty plea?

If he can, who can't ? To withdraw a guilty plea under Minnesota law, defendants must prove that ["manifest injustice"] has oc...

"Everything I thought was cute was a sign of autism and I felt tricked."

Jenny McCarthy writes about her son Evan: I guess the doctor sensed this from me because he turned my head back toward him and said, "H...

Mistrial in Phil Spector murder case.

According to CNN. MORE: " A judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against music legend Phil Spector after a jury announced for t...

"Do not create a legal writing program, moot court competitions, student-edited law reviews, clinics, or any other co-curricular offerings."

Gordon Smith offers some surprising advice for Erwin Chemerinsky on how to structure the new law school at UC Irvine. The idea is to stres...

"We reserve the right to exercise any and all options available to us."

Writes Douglas J. Band , who identifies himself as "Counselor to President Clinton," to Nino Selimaj, the owner of an Italian rest...

"I promised him a squirrel sandwich, and he's going to get one."

Who wants to try one? (My favorite part of the video is when The Huntress is slipping the skinned carcass into the boiling water, and she sa...

Giuliani, taking phone calls from his wife during speeches.

What a cornball stunt.

"How come 'national service' proponents never talk about drafting the old?"

Great question, by Ilya Somin. [T]he moral case for conscripting the elderly for civilian service is arguably stronger than that for draftin...

"I want religion to stop taking society and the vulnerable for idiots."

Said the artist, Stig Ramsing , explaining the meaning of his sculpture of Christ as a dog with a huge penis. This offends people even in Sw...

"I didn't think three years out I'd be uninsured, thinking it's a great day when a crackhead brings me $500."

Do you really want to go to law school?

"Give me an address so we are also aware of what happens in Iran."

Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , repeating his assertion that as far as he knows, there are no homosexuals in Iran. He is saying things in a form ...

"Eat well, be well housed, have a screw from time to time, smoke your pipe and drink your coffee in peace."

How to do good work, by Vincent Van Gogh.

We're #1... in binge drinking.

"The bottom line is that there is a lot of very heavy drinking in [Wisconsin]. The adult rate has been the highest in the U.S. since 2...

De-friending.

I really can't get into the complicated problems caused by "promiscuous friending."

17 cert. grants!

The Court is back! The two most interesting issues seem to be "the constitutionality of requiring voters to show a photo ID before they...

Hillary's lead proves the netroots are ineffectual.

Says David Brooks: ... Clinton has established this lead by repudiating the netroots theory of politics. ... [T]he netroots emerged in part ...

Pointless/Walrus/Bad Mood Leads to Lethal Rage.

(Photos from DUMBO.)

"Is the GQ Man a Wuss?"

Kaus asks.

"Left-armer! Wicket-scalper! Chase-scupperer! Slip-catcher! Stump-knocker! Blinder-player! Ahead-of-the-asking-rate-keeper!"

"[T]here is nothing in sports journalism more delicious than reading cricket news when you know hardly anything about cricket."

Bush and Hillary.

Being mature together.

Let's come up with better names for common objects.

Like computer . That's not properly descriptive of what you do with it. Not really computing very much, are you? I remember when a com...

"What tattoo would you recommend for the Dalai Lama?"

"As you can see, he has plenty of room on his arm."

"I have a cricket."

Yes, and an incredibly cool-looking blog post.

Having Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak at Columbia University "is required by existing norms of free speech," says Lee C. Bollinger.

Here 's the text of the speech by Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger as he gave the stage to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday. ...

"Well, everybody needs to spew sometimes."

Eva Nazemson, Swedish game show host heroine, giving new oomph to the notion that the show must go on.

Judge Posner: "a state is permitted, within reason, to express disgust..."

Upholding the Illinois Horse Meat Act , which banned the production of horse meat for human consumption. Cavel International -- a Belgian co...

“You exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.”

Columbia University president Lee Bollinger said to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad's response: I think the text read by the...