Newt + Obama = the largest possible "how smart they think they are" minus "how smart they really are"...

... according to Dan Drezner. "I think they're both actually reasonably intelligent guys, but I think both of them have a much high...

Megan McArdle's big lie.

McCain "needs to make an opponent an enemy in his mind to kind of get up for this. He personalizes conflict..."

That's WaPo's Eugene Robinson, responding to Chris Matthews, who's fulminating about McCain's supposed contempt for Obama: I...

"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 ...

"It's apparently endorsement season in the blogosphere."

Writes Dan Drezner , reflecting on Andrew Sullivan's endorsement of Ron Paul. (Note: For the Republican nomination. Sullivan endorsed ...

The Blogger's Code of Conduct.

What do you think of this code ? The trouble with a speech code is... well, I hate speech codes! But aside from that general principle, what...

Those prissy, puritanical lefty bloggers.

There's been a lot of talk about me lately in the left-o-sphere. And, sorry, but I'm not going to link to it. You know how to find t...

When a blogger goes to work for a candidate, she's bound to become boring.

Dan Drezner: [A]s much as I used to care about these intersections between the blogosphere and the real world, I can't get worked up abo...

Adler, Drezner, and Levy try to close the glass window on debate, and I say, Aw, come on, you're not gonna say that now.

Jonathan Adler declares that "the last words" have been spoken on a subject that I started. What are these famous last words? One...

Are we having Fund yet?

Dan Drezner, having encountered the giant to-do about my experience inside an exceedingly right-wing Liberty Fund conference, makes some gen...

Ann and Dan!

Hey! It's me and Dan Drezner on Bloggingheads TV ! ADDED: I just watched it. I wish we'd coordinated our head sizes and lighting. Ho...

And I thought it was shocking when I opened my office door one morning and found a man sleeping on my sofa.

But this ... this ... Oh, it's so horrible. And hilarious . (Via Dan Drezner .)

Academic blog controversies.

Slate has a big piece today, written by Robert S. Boynton, about the dangers of blogging when you're an untenured academic. It's lo...

“If any senior faculty had ever expressed disapproval about my blog, I would have stopped blogging immediately, as wimpy as that might sound."

UW-Madison's own inimitable Jeremy Freese is quoted in this Inside Higher Ed article about blogging and tenure (which reports on the D...

"The very first words I wrote on this blog were: 'I shouldn't be doing this. I'll be going up for tenure soon.'"

Daniel Drezner puts his thoughts about being denied tenure in genuinely bloggish form, which takes nerve and charm and high spirits. (Link ...

Blogging, how hard can it be?

A history prof -- David Greenberg -- tries his hand at blogging -- guest-blogging on a well-established site -- and then dashes off a NYT W...

Irritating best-seller formula.

Joe Queenan hilariously slams A. J. Jacobs' "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the Worl...

"Kerry is in an impossible box on Iraq." I keep waiting to hear Kerry say what he will do in Iraq, and I can't even think abo...