Ancient animals.

"It is brash, coarse, menacing, ugly — deliberately so."

"This is not to say there aren't moments of beauty; but these are moments, fleeting. And when the opera is comic, as it often is, i...

"Top models... are like fossil fuels..."

"... don't burn through the models... because pretty soon, before you know it, models are going to be, like, $150 a barrel..."

Another religious monument case for the Supreme Court — this time it's the Seven Aphorisms of Summum.

SCOTUSblog reports: The newly granted case on monuments on public property — Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (06-665) — will return the Court ...

Lambs!

Lamby little lamblets!

Knitwear not to buy.

Street vending gone terribly wrong. (Sorry about all the fisheye. I was traveling light, walking over the bridge yesterday, and I had to com...

"Have you dated liberals before. If so, any difference you can tell between liberal and conservative guys?"

Right Wing News interviews conservative female bloggers about dating. I tend not to date liberals, for a reason. Politics is so important t...

"There is no repentance on the part of The New York Times. There is no integrity when it comes to The Times."

Writes the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to Jodi Kantor of the NYT in a letter published at Time.com: Out of a two-hour conversation with you a...

Uninspiring massage mascot.

I don't know much about qigong , but I can't believe that guy embodies the spirit of the thing. As for tui-na , it means "push-...

Oppressing the dog.

I see so many big dogs in the city that are obviously built to run but who've had to adjust their gait to the trudge of the human. (Even...

The celibacy club at Harvard.

Does celibacy require a social club? Does a celibacy club deserve a lengthy NYT Magazine article? Don't be silly! It's a celibacy cl...

40° — that's warm enough to walk over the bridge, isn't it?

Looking back at Brooklyn:

Orange interior with cherry blossoms.

The Kitchen Club had a huge floral display.

Another room at the museum — children drawing sculpture.

Pictures from the Khmer Dynasty room.

Photos taken yesterday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dith Pran "saw his country descend into a living hell" and "survived through nimbleness, guile and sheer desperation."

Dith Pran has died. See the slideshow , which includes many of his photographs.

Was Barack Obama a "law professor"?

This seems to be the issue of the day , and, being a law professor blogger, I feel compelled to pay attention. So, first, the Hillary Clinto...

All this talk about Al Gore as a compromise candidate...

It's crazy, isn't it? Meanwhile, Obama is saying Hillary can stay in the race "as long as she wants." Now, I'm sure h...

In the Asian Art wing.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"European man... putting security on red alert... stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport."

What's the matter with Kansas? Don't they get HBO?

"Don’t listen to people when they tell you not to run anymore. That’s just political bigotry."

Listen to your own inner citizen First Amendment voice. This is America. Just like every other citizen, you have a right to run. Whenever yo...

Obama says the primary season is like "a good movie that lasted about a half an hour too long."

Is politics all about entertaining us and managing our moods and attention span? Does Obama more than Hillary Clinton think that it is? Or ...

"This wasn't Nikki over Tamyra bad, or certainly John Stevens and Jasmine Trias over Jennifer Hudson... bad, but..."

What can we learn about America's struggle over race through "American Idol"?

"It could spit out something called a 'strangelet' that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called 'strange matter.'"

Or it could create a black hole and swallow everything. But they spent $8 billion on the thing. Surely, judge, you're not going to tell ...

According to Newsweek, "it's only fair to conclude" that the Obama campaign is not trying to flip Texas county convention delegates.

Newsweek blogger Andrew Romano looks into the evidence I brought up in this post yesterday — that my son (who is a Clinton delegate) and t...

From penetrating the world of prostitution to penetrating the prostitute.

Stephen Marche has this article in TNR rejecting the adjective "Shakespearean" as applied to the downfall of Eliot Spitzer: Chara...

Mickey's Unified Obama Theory.

Video . Via Kausfiles .

Law and breasts...

You'd think I would have blogged this story , but no, I passed it up, yet here's Glenn Reynolds , blogging and displaying a whole Gl...

"A morass that starts out as a quagmire, then morphs into a cesspool and finally turns into a slime pit on the road to its ultimate destination."

Joe Queenan explains — at some length — exactly what it takes for a movie to be the worst movie ever made. And by that standard, something ...

Frankly, I thought this AP story called "Scalia Criticizes News Media" was too dull to write about.

And when I noticed it again today while reading How Appealing , I was tempted to write a post about the existential angst of Howard Bashman ...

Let's read an entire — and really cool — book right here on YouTube.

I love that. If you want to buy ABC3D by Marion Bataille — it's available in the fall — go here . I found that via Drawn ! where I'd...

Let's contemplate Mitt Romney as McCain's VP.

Here's the picture Drudge has up (linking to this story ): ( Enlarge .) I think they look great together. They seem to loosen each othe...

"Were we looking at a new Jackie O or more of an Audrey Hepburn or perhaps, even, a touch of Diana."

The British press goes mad for Carla Bruni.

"I remember landing under sniper fire..."

"The idea here, which McCain can’t say, but I can, is to essentially kill the U.N."

Said Charles Krauthammer.

"We can't let them win more delegates just by not telling us when the convention is!" — more Texas county convention maneuvering.

My son Christopher Althouse Cohen has been keeping me updated about how things look from the perspective of a county convention delegate in ...

"I want to buy them a boat."

We all want to help buy that boat.

"George Bush called this the ownership society, but what he really meant was 'you're-on-your-own' society."

A pithy and memorable quote from Barack Obama . But do Americans share that attitude toward economic policy?

Fraud in Texas? "It looks like there was data entry error. You ended up being coded as BOTH a Hillary Clinton and a Barack Obama delegate."

Yesterday, I blogged about how the Obama campaign sent my son a postcard urging him to vote for Obama at the Texas county convention. He...

"There are all kinds of nuts who can get 90 percent on the bar exam," said Justice Anthony Kennedy.

At oral argument yesterday. The case, Indiana v. Edwards , asks whether a criminal defendant who is competent to stand trial has a right to...

The Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act.

Thank you, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. Via James Lilek s, via Instapundit . Give me freedom of choice on my light bulbs, o...

Want to not talk about the presidential campaign today?

Or tomorrow? Or maybe for, like, a week? I know Lent is over, but... aren't you kind of in the mood to give this up? Or will we immediat...

Free Photoshop.

It's part of the "software as a service" trend.

Excellent performance by the sun with minimal assistance from the clouds.

As I've watched 100 sunsets from my perch in Brooklyn Heights, I'd formed the theory that the best sunsets come from lots of complic...

Hey, doggies!

I'm trying to take your picture. Hey, that's better! In fact, that's great! These two dogs saw that I was trying to photograph t...

"I don't understand why in this industry of politics, I am an airhead."

Says Meghan McCain, who's got a huge WaPo article about her and her blog . She's a nice asset to the campaign. I think in her posit...

"Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle."

Somehow I missed this story from 2005. So how political is hair anyway? Fashion too. Don't forget to watch "Dressing in accordance...

Ramussen poll says 22% of Democrats think Clinton should drop out... and 22% say Obama should drop out.

Drudge reports.

Book author stops by blog post to display lack of a sense of humor.

Here 's my post. Here 's the author's comment. IN THE COMMENTS: Everyone seems to think I'm mean, and I pout about no one se...

In Texas, the Obama campaign tries to win over Clinton's county convention delegates.

On the night of the Texas caucus, I blogged about the chaotic caucus my son Christopher attended. Scroll down to the 12:04 update. Chris sa...

A few words about tonight's "American Idol."

I'm not really blogging "American Idol" this year, but I just wanted to say that I actually enjoyed one of the performances th...

"These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches. These are not some low level scavengers..."

Demi Moore is talking about some "high level blood suckers." Beauty secrets of the stars! "It detoxifies your blood - I'...

The Supreme Court thwarts President Bush's expansive vision of executive power.

Texas wins a big victory against the Bush Administration in Medellin v. Texas : By 6 to 3, the court ruled that the president went too far ...

Should the question whether a right has been violated precede the question whether a reasonable person would know that a right has been violated?

Tony Mauro notes that the Supreme Court's cert grant yesterday in Pearson v. Callahan imposed a new issue on the parties: whether Sauc...

Thomas Sowell puts Barack Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright into a larger context.

He writes: In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father." These friends...

What will Hillary Clinton put us through for that 5% chance she has of winning the nomination?

David Brooks writes: For another three months, we’ll have the Carvilles likening the Obamaites to Judas and former generals accusing Clinton...

"If you think Jeremiah Wright is gruesome..."

Writes Christopher Hitchens: ... wait until you get a load of the next Chicago "Reverend," one James Meeks, another South Side hor...

Bayh's test: Which candidate won the states with the most electoral votes?

I think it's a good idea for Obama and Clinton proponents to propose different measures for the purposes of argument to the superdelegat...

"Misspoke."

What, are you going to say she lied ?

Flying over the Hudson River.

Back to New York.

I kind of miss New York.

Time to make my way back. To my erstwhile home.

Is the Hillary-Obama fight wrecking the Democratic Party?

Here 's another article delving into the crisis of our time, but check out the illustration, a strangely attractive morphing that we mi...

"Do they teach that facial expression in divinity school??"

What's the message on these mugs?

This would be an interesting theory...

... but since you called it a "theorem," I can't trust your judgment.

Judicial elections are "a check on a legal elite who think they should dominate the bench."

The Wall Street Journal weighs in on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

Doug Kmiec, conservative lawprof, counsel to conservative presidents, endorses Barack Obama.

Here 's his explanation. Do you understand it? RedState doesn't : There isn't even an attempt at an explanation or at a reconci...

"It takes a hussy to know a hussy."

Why is Althouse getting so excited about this movie — this 1-star movie! — on TV? ADDED: You know if you were really deeply into the Al...

"I'm used to Greenwald misrepresenting me wholesale, but being savaged for a post I didn't link to is a new one."

Writes Glenn Reynolds , who's irritated at being slammed for linking to some blogger's Happy-Easter post which turned out to be righ...

"Clarence Thomas leaps from his chair. He retrieves a wire coat hanger from his closet...."

He has a little demonstration for you: He bends it and says: "How do you compensate? So, you say well, deal with it. Bend this over her...

Rainin' McCain, trickin' lefties.

Via Matt Yglesias , who says "I'm speechless." Atrios writes: "I believe the YouTube era begins the age when it is impos...