"I don’t think we should talk about Lincoln’s underwear..."

"It’s not appropriate for someone so iconic. Even in the bedroom, Lincoln is never shown in his pajamas. He’s in his shirt and pants....

Before we let one suicide end a great tradition of fun and puncturing pomposity...

... let's remember great moments in prank calls: The Queen in 1995 spent 17 minutes talking to a man she thought was the prime minister ...

The atheist, building churches, said he "avoided conventional solutions, which had produced the old dark cathedrals reminding us of sin."

Oscar Niemeyer. Dead, now, at 104. He was also a communist. (Fidel Castro was a personal friend.) He won the International Lenin Peace Priz...

"White House Already Denying That Mandate Is A Tax. If you deny that it’s a tax, you admit that it’s unconstitutional...."

Says Instapundit , linking here . I've got to disagree. Under Chief Justice Roberts' opinion, what matters under the constitutional ...

For a mere $40,000, you can sit down to dinner chez George Clooney...

... and raise money for Barack Obama. Hey, I see from that link above, Clooney is copying Meade's beard . Speaking of beards, we were si...

Live-blogging the VP debate.

7:31, Central Time: I'm here, eating strozzapreti with burned tomato sauce, counting the last few minutes before the grand showdown. 7:3...

Responding to Jonah's response to that hot diavlog.

Over at The Corner, Jonah Goldberg has a long pos t about our Bloggingheads encounter: After technical hassles too complicated and boring to...

"This is freedom for us... The tyrant is gone! We can see our country free at last!"

Fidel Castro isn't dead yet -- as far as I can tell -- but the exiles are already celebrating : In South Florida, which with Castro'...

20 countries have offered Katrina aid.

It's reported here that offers of aid have come from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Jamaic...