At the Chrysanthemum Café...

... you can talk all night.

The gesture Cain made that, he says, brought a complaint about sexual harassment.

On Greta Van Susteren's show, he spoke of an employee in her late 30s or early 40s who accused him of sexual harassment: "She was i...

Rush Limbaugh's crisis of confidence.

This is odd, because you think of him as supremely confident: ... I've been talking about things I really don't care about and I hav...

Why is Perry but not Romney or Cain beating Obama in the Rasmussen poll of Wisconsin voters?

Perry beats Obama, 46%/54%, but Obama beats Romney, 45%/41%, and Cain, 47%/42%. I just don't get it. What's getting Perry those extr...

Where's the line between pet costume...

... and tormenting an animal?

Are the NY police relying on criminals and lowlifes to break down the protest in Zuccotti Park?

Excellent reporting by Harry Siegel at the NY Daily News: Most of the working groups have been clustered at the east end of the park.... Mos...

Steve Jobs's feet.

From the Walter Isaacson biography "Steve Jobs" : He was still convinced, against all evidence, that his vegan diets meant that he...

Attacks upon the neck.

Talk of a high-tech lynching got me thinking about the neck attack that made the news here in Wisconsin last June. Do you remember? State S...

High-tech lynching + Herman Cain.

A Google search returns 35,400 results the day after Politico drops its story about 2 female employees who, years ago, were angered and ups...

Halloween greetings.

(Animation of Meade's photo by Chip Ahoy .)

Saturday's protest ambiance: mellow, low-key.

A woman dressed in nonthreatening witch garb stood under the "Forward" statue and implored people to assemble for an "Oakland...

"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."

The last words of Steve Jobs, recounted by his sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, in her fine eulogy .

On "Face the Nation," Bob Schieffer chastised Herman Cain about the "smoking man" ad.

Bob Schieffer could not restrain himself within the role of journalist today. It was pretty ridiculous: BOB SCHIEFFER: Mister Cain, I-- I j...

The mess that is "Meet the Press" had me laughing until tears ran down my face.

We watch the NBC show on DVR and pause frequently to analyze, dissect, and mock. Here 's today's transcript. They had Walter Isaacso...

Matt Yglesias says "Let Children Vote."

The notion is: they probably won't, but the ones who do would probably "come from an unusually dedicated and informed sub-set of A...

Yesterday, we drove past the new "Occupy Madison" encampment...

... which you can see in the first 10 seconds of this 14-minute video... ... and you can hang out with Meade and me for the rest of the driv...

"This is snow, it's not going to kill us. What they're doing to us will kill us. What they're doing to our world."

Winter comes early to Zuccotti Park , where — as the apparently editorless New York Magazine puts it — tents "are explicitly forgiven....

Anne Applebaum prattles about the divide in America between the upper-middle class and the lower-middle class.

Instapundit pointed me to this piece , so I read it: Despite all the loud talk of the “1 per cent” of Americans who, according to a recent ...

Iowa poll: Cain 23, Romney 22, Paul 12... Perry 7.

Fascinating. What's the most interesting thing about this new poll? Cain's on top. Romney's doing so well when he's eschewed...

What the "Occupy Madison" encampment looked like today...

( Enlarge .) It's exiled on East Washington Avenue. Meanwhile, at the Capitol Square... the protesting is enigmatic and infiltrated with...

"We are shamelessly promoting our dad..."

Jon Huntsman's daughters:

At the Broccoli Restaurant...

... you can have your fill.

"Why were we born?"

"What were we born for?" The link goes to a commercial — in Japanese, with subtitles — for an insurance company. I am presenting i...

"Are you just occupying space?"

The Occupy Wall Street — or Occupy [Your City] — movement made me remember an old expression: "Are you just occupying space?" It w...

At the Prairie Café...

... you can hang out with us all night. (We're watching Game 7. Are you?) UPDATE: Nice work by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Critiquing mainstream media and praising Occupy Wall Street, Dahlia Lithwick accidentally slams Barack Obama.

This essay rambles along , excusing OWS for its vague message on the theory that cable TV newsfolk just don't understand: Occupy Wall St...

Why do people have so much trouble understanding Herman Cain's smoking guy ad?

Back in 2007, we were able to get Mike Gravel's throwing-a-rock-in-the-water ad: Maybe some day Mark Block — the smoking guy — will expl...

Paul Ryan at the Heritage Foundation: "Saving the American Idea."

Here's 52 whole minutes if you've got the time for a full serving of Paul Ryanosity:

Posters, with window reflections.

Some interesting sayings, especially for Madison: ( Enlarge .) ( Enlarge .) Inside the Overture Center, it was a demonstration of poster pri...

What are Americans watching on TV?

In a word: football .

A quote from Bill Daley, the White House Chief of Staff. Guess what he's talking about?

"That was a freakin’ drag out, knockout, every day sort of bing-bang-bong. There isn’t that now. There isn’t a sort of 'woe is us,...

"Juggalos are traditionally fans of the musical group the Insane Clown Posse."

Says the FBI in its 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. Jesse Walker at Hit & Run comments: "I'd love to learn more about th...

"The continuing economic downturn has drastically altered the internal migration habits of Americans..."

"... turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York, Massachusetts and California into a relative tric...

Person-based praise and process-based praise — are you praising your kids the best way?

"The parents who gave more process-praise had children who believe their intelligence and social qualities could be developed and they ...

"In the history of baseball, there have been a small collection of World Series games identified solely by the moniker 'Game 6.'"

So begins David Waldstein in his write-up of last night's World Series game. It's an exciting read. But there are 2 more new essays...

NY police union threatens to bring civil lawsuits against the protesters who assault police officers.

The NY Daily News reports: [T]he president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association warned demonstrators that he will pursue civil suits aga...

The "Slumdog Millionaire" scenario...

... plays out in real life.

"Four Reasons Keynesians Keep Getting It Wrong."

Allan H. Meltzer in the WSJ: First, big increases in spending and government deficits raise the prospect of future tax increases... Second, ...

Rangers about to win the World Series?

Are you watching? ADDED: For some reason, Meade and I have fallen into rooting for different teams. I'm for Texas. AND: The game continu...

Cute tiny robot rides a bike.

(Via Metafilter .)

"Why Don't More Law Schools Teach Reproductive Rights Classes?"

Asks Alexandra Harwin over at Slate's XXfactor. What a phony issue! The subject is taught as part of Constitutional Law, which virtuall...

Occupy Wall Street food servers get sick of the "professional homeless people."

"They know what they’re doing." For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub ins...

Santorum ad goes after Herman Cain on abortion.

The ad uses video from Cain's interview with Piers Morgan, which I've blogged about here , and also this interview with John Stossel...

Jesus Ween.

"Jesus Weeners might be seen as fun-trouncers."

Is it a contradiction to allow guns in the Wisconsin Assembly gallery and to arrest people who use cameras?

Under the new law, guns will be allowed in most parts of the Wisconsin Capitol building but just this week "a dozen people were removed...

"I went to the bar and I ordered a Jack and coke and I turned around and locked eyes with Tania..."

"... and before I took the drink I set it down and I walked over and I asked her if she wanted to go and have a cup of coffee with me -...

The woman who presented childbirth as performance art in a gallery "didn’t understand it was going to be in the news."

According to her husband. "She didn’t understand it was going to freak people out.’ So what are you saying? She's an idiot? No, he...

What's gone wrong with The Daily Beast?

Kaus looks at the evidence. There's a theory that "Tina Brown has now decamped for Newsweek magazine with all her favorite hires, ...

Who gets to take advantage of Obama's new changes to the student loan program?

Not as many as you might think. The new rules only apply to federal loans, not loans from private banks, and... This new income-based plan ...

"If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl..."

"... Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout." But what if a child is presented as a boy who has a strong identificat...

Public masturbation at Occupy Madison?

Here's a paragraph in a UW student newspaper story about the Occupy Madison protesters: A neighboring hotel's staff alleged voiced ...

"Be amazing."

Suggested by YouTube after watching this... Which was suggested by Metafilter and really is similar amazingness... of the goatish kind.

At Red Oak Café...

... there's a warm glow.

At Occupy Wall Street, "children are becoming an increasing presence..."

"... as parents try to seize a 'teachable moment' to enlighten them on matters ranging from income inequality to the right to p...

In 2008, Madoff and his wife "swallowed handfuls of sedatives before climbing into their chintz-draped canopy bed."

Like Madoff's Ponzi scheme, his suicide scheme did not work . The Madoffs woke up the next morning. In this botched suicide story, as to...

A Democratic Party-affiliated poll reveals that it's unlikely any Democrat will succeed in a recall election against Scott Walker.

Public Policy Polling reports: Walker's still not popular- 47% of voters approve of him, compared to 51% who disapprove. But those numb...

"Marni Kotak, an artist whose plans to give birth in a New York gallery as an act of performance art provoked criticism and concern..."

"... delivered a healthy baby boy Tuesday. Kotak, 36, gave birth to baby Ajax, weighing nine pounds and two ounces at 21 inches at 10:1...

"The Steve Jobs' iPod Autopsy: Apple Innovator Stuck in the '60s."

Says Spin: "His iPod selections were those of a kid from the '70s with his heart in the '60s"... In fact, loaded on his iP...

Police versus Occupy protesters in Oakland.

Lots of photos and video. At around 9:30 p.m., there was a tense faceoff between protesters and police officers on Broadway at 14th Street....

"Education in this country is conducted on the model of a public utility owned by the government."

"It's a government monopoly, full of unionized workers, delivering a government-subsidized product to people who are required by th...

The dog poop trial.

The jury says: not guilty. “This case wasn’t about whether I picked up after Baxter. It was about two women who wanted to harass me,” a tear...

At the Apple Café...

... sometimes an apple is really an apple.

"Readers can expect to learn more about some the world's craziest and nastiest animals."

"The animals in the book are all fabulously unusual in some way; my book sheds light on these creatures. Expect to be terrified of natu...

"Are Law Schools and Bar Exams Necessary?"

A NYT op-ed by the Brookings Institution economist Clifford Winston, an economist and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. (His bo...

"At the root of the reality distortion was Jobs’s belief that the rules didn’t apply to him."

"He had some evidence for this; in his childhood, he had often been able to bend reality to his desires. Rebelliousness and willfulness...

"I don’t know whose bright idea is was to send Romney to Ohio, have him rally the troops at a call center..."

"... and then refuse to support the policy they’re fighting for, but one thing appears certain: this unforced error is going to leave a...

SNL's Darrell Hammond "was a victim of systematic and lengthy brutality."

"My mom did some things which have cost me dearly." The actor is well known as the funnyman who graced "SNL" to spoof ce...

NYT "Frugal Traveler" comes to Madison.

Concentrates on biking, eating burgers, and drinking Wisconsin beer (including Leinenkugel). Following some rule of frugal traveling, he st...

At the Sunset Café...

... I hope you had a beautiful day. Beautiful or not though... tell us about it.

"New Tricks for Old Malls... Gun Ranges, Aquariums, Go-Carts."

The WSJ reports: Jin Dong, the manager of a Mattress Giant store that shares a wall with the Arms Room, is one of the gun range's happy ...

"I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple."

"And that you can put on a postcard. Americans, I hope, aspire to be wealthy." Rick Perry, answering — in the affirmative — the qu...

2-week-old baby rescued from collapsed building 2 days after the earthquake.

In Turkey. The baby, Azra Karaduman, was held in the arms of her mother, Semiha, who also survived. The mother was "pinned down next t...

"If your spiritual life, which is a serious responsibility, and your intellectual life is a serious responsibility, why is it that if we assume you can have free decisions there..."

"... why shouldn’t you have free decisions on what you eat, drink, smoke and put into your own body?"

"Bizarre denial" from the NYT? It depends on what the meaning of "fringe" is.

In the Twittersphere, James Taranto caught Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the NYT, taking a shot at Herman Cain, saying "M...

#1.

Lawprof blog rankings. (Blogs without Site Meter aren't counted. That's why there's no Instapundit . Otherwise, Instapundit woul...

"Eat debt, screw you, Occupy UW" — the student debt wing of the Occupy [Your City] movement.

That was the chant yesterday as 20 students marched from Union South to the Memorial Union , here at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. 20...

Sunset on the Ice Age Trail.

This evening. Stills by me, video by Meade.

"Is America built on a lie?"

That's #1 on the "Most Popular" list at bbc.com. The actual title of the article when you click on it is: "Is the US Decl...

"Gov. Scott Walker has launched a new website touting the results of changes he pushed this year...

"... including his proposal taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most state workers.The website launched Monday com...

"The Constitutional Right to Insult Your Neighbors With Tombstone Displays."

Just one section of an article — PDF — in the New York State Bar Association Journal about Halloween-related lawsuits. (Via ABAJournal .) T...

142 legal secretaries surveyed and not one preferred working with a woman partner.

Why? Lawprof Felice Batlan elicited these comments: • “Females are harder on their female assistants, more detail oriented, and they have t...

"Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult?"

There's some history to it.

"The Pentagon already includes unmanned drone attacks in its arsenal."

"Next up: housefly-sized surveillance craft, shape-changing 'chemical robots,' and tracking agents sprayed from the sky." ...

"When I got the part, I thought, 'Dear God,' because she sings, 'island of tropic diseases'..."

"... and I thought, 'I can't say that about my beautiful little island'... island of tropic diseases? Whew!" Rita More...

Wikileaks stops leaking.

Out of money, due to "what the group called a blockade by US-based finance companies."

"I have 17 kills throughout the Northeast United States."

"Perfect victims and well executed, controlled endeavors." Lacking in "commitment and control" was the partner in murder...

"Taxation is theft when you take money from one group to give it to another, when you transfer the wealth."

"Now, taxation could be accomplished with user fees and, you know, highway fees and gasoline taxes and import taxes. But the income ta...

Ron Paul, interviewed by William F. Buckley in 1988.

"The libertarian movement has come of age. We've been around for 15 years, and I think we're going to have a real impact.......

"Musician suing for age bias says his 88-year-old judge is too old to preside..."

Violinist Martin Stoner knows "it sounds kind of like hypocrisy," but Judge Robert Patterson is, he says, "slow-witted and u...