"You're either on the bus or off the bus."

It's an old hippie saying that sprang to mind when I looked at this photo (taken a week ago in Madison). What exactly did it mean? From ...

The ABA Journal has its new list of 100 best law blogs.

Here 's the list. My blog is in the category "IMHO." ("These sites, while sometimes taking a substantive look at the law,...

"We must avoid the temptation to drown in distractions and distortions."

Debate begins, with a warning against... debate .

Albany details.

"A Virginia woman was struck and killed while taking flowers to a roadside memorial for her granddaughter..."

"... who died in a crash at the same spot a week ago."

"With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics."

Disillusioned cynics ≈ realistic skeptics. I don't see the problem.

"Una had stretched out on the bed of the guillotine; I lifted the lunette, made her put her head through it, and closed it on her long neck, after carefully lifting her heavy hair."

"She was panting. I tied her hands behind her back with my belt, then raised her skirt. I didn't even bother to lower her panties.....

At the Duct Tape Café...

... let's try to keep it together.

"Come on, folks, we're being asked to believe that the Secret Service let these people in without going through checkpoints?"

Rush Limbaugh — speaking on the radio right now — does not believe the story of the state dinner gate-crashers. He's suggesting they wer...

"Why Do You Believe What You Do? Do our beliefs form the basis of our partisan and ideological affiliations?"

Here is Josh Marshall asking what, for me, have always been the most interesting questions about politics. I've taken a lot of flak for...

"He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money... Too much Leonard Nimoy... That’s the Chicago Way... He’s a pushover... He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe... President Pelosi... He’s in love with the man in the mirror...."

7 templates. Why aren't they getting more use?

Mike Huckabee deploys the passive voice.

In a statement about Maurice Clemmons , the man wanted in the shooting of 4 police officers. Boldface added: He was recommended for and rec...

"You know you have a child with autism if ... your child takes more pills than your grandmother."

Oh, ha ha ha. Let's tell jokes about the intensive experiments that parents are performing on their autistic children. The Tribune found...

"In some of the pictures Lincoln's right eye looks half-asleep while the left stares wide-open."

"Cover half the face and each side looks like it belongs to a different person, one appearing downcast and uncertain, the other determi...

"What are you wearing? What do you want to do to me? What do you want me to do to you?"

If there's ever a scandal where your sexting is made public, I seriously hope whatever it is you've written is more creative than th...

An inconceivably bad monument.

We are entering Empire State Plaza, that heinous monument to government waste and stupidity : Just around that corner is the expensive toile...

Expensive toilet.

An all-too-inviting corner of the atrocity that is Empire State Plaza .

"I don’t want to put you on the spot, but you sure deliver that song like a true believer."

"Well, I am a true believer." Bob Dylan answers a question that was inspired by his singing of "O Little Town of Bethlehem...

"There are surprisingly few hours in the middle of the night, if you get up at say 1am and start working on something."

Said rhhardin, in the comments to the last post, the one about stopping at the welcome center in Pennsylvania. It's a sound observation,...

Stopping at the Pennsylvania welcome center at the New York end of I-90.

It's eerie late at night... At the foot of the "Pennsylvania Wineries" column, lies inebriated Santa: But don't worry.... ...

"If you don't fuck too hard, your painting will be all the spunkier for it."

Advice from Vincent Van Gogh: "I already told you last spring. Eat well, do your military drill well, don't fuck too hard; if you d...

At the Stairwell Café...

... you can get down and dirty.

"I am a local artist, who has created sculptings made up Duct-Tape.. 100% no wires, or fillers."

Dennis Gervasio has "created the illusion of pewter." His opposition to "fillers" may explain his shortening of the term...

"I think it's funny that I, a black man, would never have considered the possible racial implications of that gargoyle."

The Crack Emcee said. Hell, I wouldn't have even cared - while two white folks are all concerned and ready to point the finger at,...who...

Are we "still supposed to believe that his wife, Elin Nordegren, somehow turned one of Tiger's Nike SQ drivers into the Jaws of Life"?

"Woods was driving a Cadillac Escalade out of his own driveway, which is the same as driving a tank. He wasn't going fast enough to...

"OMG, can you believe Obama changed his mind about going to Copenhagen after all this stuff came out? It's like sprinting to board your ship at the last minute, and it's the Titanic."

"You're the Titanic. You are." Jim Treacher has a dialogue with the global warming evangelist who lives in his head.

"Michaele Salahi (far r.) poses with 'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson (l.), Fergie and other members of the Black Eyed Peas, Micheale's husband Tareq, and, of course, President Obama."

I'm sorry. I want to hate these people. But there's such a silliness to it all. It's so pop culture. And Obama is part of pop c...

We left Albany at about 1:30 pm (Eastern Time) yesterday, and we pulled into the driveway here in Madison at 2:30 am (Central Time).

Not easy, but we had 2 drivers, and we're both good at napping in the passenger's seat, and it's not fun to stop in a just-off-t...

"I like old lady glamour."

Says a 25-year-old guy in an LA Times slideshow about street fashion in Silver Lake. *** Note: I did some street photography in Silver Lake ...

Improvising with the bear.

TJ Miller really wanted the part of Ranger Smith in the Yogi Bear movie. After 2 failed auditions, desperate, he made this video: He got the...

The proposal to ban new minarets in Switzerland.

BBC reports: Partial results from the poll which closed at 1100 GMT indicated that the German-speaking canton of Lucerne accepted the ban, w...

At the Faithful Dog Café....

... you can keep up the conversation while M and I do I-90 miles. UPDATE: Home, at 3 a.m.  We drove about 980 miles, nearly all on Route 90....

The atrocity that is Empire State Plaza.

You're walking in a neighborhood of 19th century townhouses... ... and you run smack into this: New York spent $2 billion to demolish 98...

"I dare you to comb through an entire issue and find a single word between those covers..."

"... that doesn't leave you reeling with delight or nodding vigorously at the gobsmacking truth sparking like a Texas thunder storm...

"Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected to."

"Nothing will take away the hysteria of those ones who have never stopped pouring contempt upon him, hounding him through hatred and as...

Tiger Woods seriously injured after crashing his car into a fire hydrant... and then into a tree.

This happened at 2:25 a.m. as he was pulling out of his own driveway.  AND: The police say it was not alcohol related. IN THE COMMENTS: sav...

Man in green sneakers reads Sartre. Dog arrives.

The Sartre book was "Nausea"   — great title for reading in a café. And the combination of Sartre and a café got us talking about ...

"You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."

Said William Jennings Bryan in 1896. He was not talking about that sculpture in the Empire State Plaza in Albany, which I encountered up cl...

Human gargoyles of New York.

All a part of the New York Capitol: We had some discussion about whether the last one is racist and whether there was any significance to th...

"Don't look too closely... or you'll see the swastikas...."

Reading this comment from Scott (in the previous post) ... I haven't been through Albany in years. But I do recall that the NY State Edu...

Beautiful Albany.

My favorite building in Albany is City Hall , also pictured in the previous post : In front is a statue of Philip Schuyler , a Revolutionary...

Where we are...

... in America...

Fashion.

No one seemed to notice where we were in the photo in the previous post. It's actually easy to see if you look at all closely. Today, we...

We're giving thanks for everything.

And much love to all the Althouse blog readers, from Althouse + Meade.

A Thanksgiving reflection.