At the Faux Archaeology Café...

... you can display what you've unearthed lately. Me, I excavated the grave of a sticks and stones man who was, it seems, buried in a la...

I'd vote for Donovan and Laura Nyro.

The new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees.

"Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."

Suicide, announced on Facebook, after live-streamed internet exposure via secret webcam. "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I ...

Let's take a closer look at that wording: "There's nothing in the bill that says you have to change the health insurance you've got right now."

Get it? Ha ha. Nothing in the bill said you had to change what you have, but things in the bill would cause your provider withdraw it, and...

It's Rouse...

... to rouse us from our malaise lethargy .

"Obama 52%, Clinton 37% for 2012 Democratic Nomination."

Gallup finds — with particular support among women and — in a poll limited to Democrats — "conservatives. " Would you like to see ...

"If you do not care that Latoya Peterson, the founder of the blog Racialicious stopped reading JackandJillPolitics midway through the campaign..."

"... or if you do not even know who these people are, then Big Girls Don't Cry will seem pretty mystifying in parts." I tried...

"My experience with that show is like herpes. It never goes away, and it itches and sometimes flares up."

Yeah, you should see what dumbness and the inability to perceive humor does to your herpes.

"Once he imagined he was being pursued by men with black beards on horseback — mujahedeen..."

"he explained to his support team, who encouraged him to ride faster and keep ahead of them." Jure Robic, the endurance bicyclist,...

What is the sound of 250,000 signs yelling?

New York City must change every single street sign because the federal the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices adopted a rule against ...

Tony Curtis, RIP.

He was 85. As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first and foremost on his startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair, worn in a sculptural...

"How am I going to celebrate? I’m going to spank some ass."

How would you celebrate a court decision finding a right to practice prostitution ?

At the Litter & Poo Café...

... did you Obamadisonians clean up after yourself as well as the Tea Partiers do?

Where are all the news media photographs of the big Madison crowd that Obama harangued last night?

I thought the University of Wisconsin was a major photo-op. Where are the photos — vistas of hopeful, youthful faces? There's a tiny thu...

I got my Bob Dylan tickets.

Previously on this blog: Despair . Now: A second show at the Overture , starting at 10. Are Meade and I too old to go to a 10 p.m. concert? ...

The University of Wisconsin had "to weigh the many benefits of a visit by a sitting president against the naked political purpose of that visit."

Analysis by Dan Barry of the NYT. But first, the necessary quotation from Bob Dylan : "But even the president of the United States some...

"Eddie Long ... should openly admit what he did, disavow his antigay positions..."

"... and serve as a beacon to a black community that needs to get beyond an unthinking prejudice especially unseemly in a group positio...

Impactfully yours, Thomas Friedman.

He's here to tell you that the Tea Party movement you see out there is actually the Tea Kettle movement "because all it’s doing i...

"Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas find out they're safe and hug after Florence says something weird about locking hips with some guy. It sounds lude."

The Daily News reports on "Dancing With the Star" and sounds stoopid. Got some ludes ?

Bill Clinton's in trouble for saying "I've dreamed of getting a lesson from Annika Sorenstam."

Now, is that fair?

"Who knows? This may be the only time Ann Althouse and Barack Obama have ever appeared in the same picture."

Ha.

"Boy, that's an overwhelmingly white crowd."

Says Instapundit , looking at my pictures from the Obama rally. That's also a popular observation in the comments. Seven Machos started ...

Obama tries to warm up the crowd at the University of Wisconsin with sports talk and hints of partying.

I took the video from my vantage point on the Union Terrace. The President is seen on TV. Listen for the booing when he mentions Chicago... ...

"After a couple of blah songs by The National, then a long energy-sapping break for canned music (pace, people, pace), singer-guitarist Ben Harper plays a mostly pensive solo set."

"It’s the exact opposite of rousing," writes Dean Robbins about tonight's Obama rally: But just when you think the rally (and ...

Pictures from the periphery of the Obama rally.

Arriving as we did around 5, we couldn't get into the restricted area that people had lined up all day to get into. First, we went to Ba...

We're back from Obamastock. Immense, overflowing crowds. And Feingold too.

Photos and video soon.

Huge crowds of students lining up to get into the Obama rally here in Madison.

I took this little video of the line at 2:25 CT. The security checkpoint wasn't set to open until 3:30, and the event won't start un...

"I'm not a big opera buff in terms of going to opera, but there are days where Maria Callas is exactly what I need," says Barack Obama.

He was answering Jann Wenner's question: "What music have you been listening to lately? What have you discovered, what speaks to y...

"We know that cuts in Medicare are being used to fund national health care reform."

"We became concerned by the long-term viability of Medicare Advantage programs in general... And we also had concerns about our ability...

"Buildings affected by President Obama’s Library Mall event... St. Paul’s Catholic Center: 5 p.m. Mass has been cancelled."

Oh, God.

"'Joey Ramone Place' is perhaps the most stolen of the 250,900 street signs in New York..."

So now, they've installed it higher — 20 feet off the ground. The last surviving Ramone, Marky, thinks it's too hard to see now. It...

"With Physical Books Obsolete..."

"... The Strand Resorts to Luring Customers With Candy."

"Right now Nietzsche is a little more important."

Said UW student Justin Marita , who said he wasn't going to the President's big get-out-the-vote rally in Madison today. But there a...

"A special adaptation of Segway Inc.'s dynamic stabilization technology and a wider track maximize stability, while the x2's higher ground clearance ensures that steep hills, uneven trails, and errant rocks won't impede your ride."

And when you get to the point where you want the ride impeded ... it will be too late .

Today's Drudgedy... Drudge comedy.

Eyes... bucks... Not sure what Drudge is driving at here. Some strange coded message to Ohio ? And why show the front and not the back of t...

"Democratic Party Chairman Timothy Kaine says he sees no slight in Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold skipping a campaign rally tonight where President Barack Obama is appearing on his behalf."

I see a slight: To the intelligence of the American people, if Kaine thinks we might believe that .

Obama's big get-out-the-vote-rally in Madison today is "a great experiment."

Says Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: The challenge at the moment is how to get out the vote in Wi...

Sarah Palin on "Dancing With the Stars" — and allegedly booed.

She looked beautiful, and the crowd is ready to cheer her when the camera is on her, so we can only guess what caused the booing that was he...

At the Rural Sunset Café...

... things feel so intense and random.

"But suddenly, the lawyer became so uncomfortably hot that he leaped up to move."

"He tried to put on his flip-flop sandals but, inexplicably, they were too hot to touch. So he ran barefoot to the shade." The Las...

Hippie punch... it should be a drink!

I've had it with the "hippie punch" brouhaha . I want it to be a drink , like "Hawaiian Punch" or whatever. Help me ...

"Power, I said! Power to walk into the gold vaults of the nations, into the secrets of kings, into the Holy of Holies!"

"Power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger. Even the moon's frightened of me, fri...

The Devil's picnic.

Pictures taken yesterday at Devil's Lake, Wisconsin. (Not to be confused with this .)

Is Obama waging cyberwar against Iran?

"[T]he worm appears to be a case of outright industrial sabotage or cyber warfare, created and unleashed not by rogue hackers but by a ...

I'm beginning to understand why that lefty blogger asked Axelrod if he knew the term "hippie punching"?

Tobin Harshaw reviews the incident in the NYT. He quotes me. You may remember that I said I'd never heard the term (and I've been s...

It's hard being a lefty in Madison these days.

You live on the east side, you support Barack Obama and all that hope and change... and high speed rail... in your backyard?! "I think ...

Was it "racially insensitive" to say to gay people — as Ann Coulter did — "Marriage is not a civil right. You're not black"?

That's what Talking Points Memo says. I'm trying to understand the theory by which it's racially insensitive. The only thing c...

French politician Rachida Dati criticizes investment funds for "looking for returns of 20 or 25%, at a time when fellatio is almost non-existent."

That's translated from French, in which the key word is "fellation," which she supposedly confused with "inflation."...

The owner of Segway rides a Segway off a cliff...

... and dies.

On the road in rural Wisconsin...

... you can see right back to 1940.

"I had this belief that I couldn’t just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity."

"But it wasn’t that. It was just that I couldn’t accept that they would call us by number, because I thought it would make it easier fo...

"Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

Said Jesus , describing the final judgment. There was a point in Stephen Colbert's testimony to a House subcommittee when he dropped his...

Things that you'd better not have on you if you want to walk through Library Mall on Tuesday afternoon.

"Laptop computers, sharp objects, metal or plastic drink bottles, backpacks and bags or purses larger than a standard sheet of paper, p...

Clay acorn birdbath...

... with oak leaves. A still life open thread.

How LSD made Jerry Hall a model.

An excerpt from her autobiography that I'm highlighting instead of all the junk about Mick Jagger: The idea of being a model started whe...

"Obama did exactly the opposite of what should have been done" for the economy.

Said "Black Swan" author Nassim Nicholas Taleb. "He surrounded himself with people who exacerbated the problem. You have a pe...

At the Busted Puffball Café...

... you can talk about your broken dreams. I had a beautiful dream of a magic mushroom named Puff. Puff the puffball mushroom . I thought we...

Which First Lady is taller?

Careful! Watch out for optical illusions! IN THE COMMENTS: MayBee writes: "Marie Antoinette's heir meets Marie Antoinette's hai...

Bill Maher's second attack on Christine O'Donnell: "Evolution is a myth?!"

Okay. Fine. But who is that woman next to Maher saying "Science is a reality"? What's with her? Is she under the influence of ...

We forgot to buy Bob Dylan tickets.

Damn. Didn't think about it until the evening of the day the tickets went on sale, and now they are sold out. I guess we aren't the ...

From a series of "10 Great Makeup Looks From New York Fashion Week."

Here's one: No? Then try "bumblebee eyes."

Russ Feingold distances himself from the Democrats.

In this pretty damned brilliant ad: At first, I was all Why are they showing him chewing? ... but then, the camera pulls back... and Russ is...

The government keeps trying to get us to do something and we won't.

It happens to be something that would be good for us. ( Eating vegetables. ) But our resistance to doing things the government eagerly and e...

Q: "What are the biggest geopolitical factors affecting mustaches right now?"

A: There is still the perception that leaders cannot have mustaches, at least in the U.S. there are less than 30 members of Congress that we...

The Prime Minister keeps his baby in a box.

"Nancy made her a cardboard box when we were in Cornwall as we didn't have a cot and decorated it and she's still in the cardbo...

Emergency...

... brassiere.

Sunset on the second day of autumn.

On Picnic Point. Bring it on. I can take it! Whatever it is. It is so beautiful

Camille Paglia relives her burst into our consciousness in 1990 with her NYT op-ed about Madonna.

The anti-sex feminists are all gone, she says: " And I'm still here ." And so is Madonna.

"I was a corn-packer. And I know that term is offensive. To some people. Because corn-packer is a derogatory term for a gay Iowan."

Colbert responds to Iowa Republican Steve King. IN THE COMMENTS: Quaestor said... Some impression[s] I've formed on this matter: 1) A di...

How am I supposed to search for "$#*! My Dad Says" on my DVR?

Here 's the transcript of last night's show. Sample line: "If it looks like manure and smells like manure, it's either Wolf...

"For some reason I feel like Ann Althouse saying this..."

Oh, really? I'm stoked .

"DEM CRACKUP: COLBERT ASKED TO LEAVE HILL HEARING, NO SPEAK."

Drudge headlines. REP. CONYERS TO FUNNYMAN: 'I'm asking you to leave the committee room completely, and submit your statement'.....

"The electronic lynch mob that has attacked and harassed me—you should see the emails sent to me personally!—has made my family feel threatened and insecure."

Cries U Chi lawprof Todd Henderson , whom I'm accused of being insufficiently empathetic toward . Ah! I love the smell of irony in the m...

"Only Eddie Fisher, as a boyhood friend of the frantic playgirl, seems like something dragged in from left field."

"He plays a music writer who lives in a dark room in Greenwich Village and acts as if he wishes they would all go away and leave him al...

What do alumni attending their 15th law school reunion want to hear a lawprof talk about for 15 minutes...

... over dinner at 8 p.m. tonight? UPDATE: Thanks for all your help! I quoted quite a few of the comments a the end of the speech, which I t...

"The tax man's taken all my dough and left me in my stately home... and I can't sail my yacht — he's taken everything I've got..."

That's the song playing in my head after reading about University of Chicago lawprof Todd Henderson, who's desolated that people do...

"[F]or Axelrod to plead with liberal bloggers for their help turning out the base, only to get accused of 'hippie punching,' is an iconic moment in Campaign 2010."

Interesting. .. but what the hell is "hippie punching"? That tension burst out into the open when [Susan Madrak of Crooks and Liar...

"Tonight the death machine exterminated the beautiful childlike and loving spirit of Teresa Lewis."

Said Lewis's lawyer. Lewis' life took a deadly turn after she married Julian, whom she met at a Danville textile factory in 2000. Tw...

At the New Lawn Café...

... you can get your bare feet all wet.

Puff the Magic Mushroom...

... lives by the tree.

"Velma Hart, an Obama supporter who, employing an O'Donnellesque unidiomatic preposition, told the president she was 'exhausted of defending you.'"

Ha ha. James Taranto is , like me, distracted by the wrong preposition. ( I said, about O'Donnell: "It bugs me more that she says ...

"It's all about the insularity. Otherwise how do you explain how a group who came in with more goodwill in decades squandered it?"

A quote from "a longtime Democratic strategist who works with the White House on a variety of issues." He says that Obama and his ...

Hey, what happened to Kausfiles?

I was complaining yesterday that in 3 days, there were only 2 paragraphs showing on the front page of the blog that got all us bloggers not...

Major Madison photo-op: "Obama rally to take place at Library Mall."

It should be a huge crowd. I'm certainly planning to go.

Obama asks faith-based groups to help him get his message out about the Democrats health-care-reform legislation.

Politico reports: With health reform’s popularity steadily slipping, top administration officials turned to faith-based groups that supporte...

Rush Limbaugh thinks Obama is icy cold — like Michael Dukakis... and Buck Turgidson.

Don't let the horrible photo chosen by Media Matters here stop you from listening to the audio. It's an excellent performance by Rus...

It's the new Contract With America: the "Pledge to America."

The written document.

"The momentum is with us."

Sayeth... Nancy Pelosi.

Boiling Springs.

Oh, there's an apt name.

"[T]heme weeks forcing folks out of their wheelhouse are out, and stay-within-your-box-and-make-the-box-awesome with decade-based theme weeks is what's in."

"American Idol" update. So, if you're country, you'll be allowed to sing country, every week, and not prove that you can ...

"They say that all good things must end someday. Autumn leaves must fall."

Equinoxiously yours, Chad and Jeremy P.S. It's the Super Harvest Moon tonight.

"Jean [Harlow] did not like to wear bras and was advised by her mother to ice her breasts to keep them firm."

"Similarly, she did not like to wear underwear because she disliked lines and she also preferred to sleep in the nude. Although these c...

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...

"President Barack Obama is helped by Vermont Governor Jim Douglas to move a couch in the Oval Office, Feb. 2, 2009. Governor Douglas me...

Obama to Bob Woodward: "We can absorb a terrorist attack... even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."

From Woodward's new book. Obama also said that of course, he's trying to prevent any attacks, but his point about absorbing whatever...

Sorry, I deleted my blogroll last night. It's Mickey Kaus's fault.

I put his new, Newsweek blog on the roll, then, trying to remove his old, dead link, I clicked a button that said "remove." Apolog...