"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...

Adolf Hitler, Robert Mugabe, John McCain... and in sequence #2: John Lennon, Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi, and Barack Obama.

With flashing images, Madonna is trying to tell you something.

The complicated story of Rielle Hunter and Jonathan Darman, the Newsweek reporter.

Jonathan Darman has his claws out: The first time I laid eyes on , I could tell she was a story. She had frizzy blond hair with DARK roots, ...

Naming the Madison school that will not be Vang Pao Elementary School.

You remember that Hmong hero Vang Pao was arrested — by us — for plotting to overthrow the government of Laos and that the plan to name a sc...

What would Gandhi...

... have thought of Daniel Pearl?

Audible Althouse #78.

Time to catch up once again with Audible Althouse : it's a podcast of the odd last few days on a blog called Althouse. Things are not wh...

Strong women are dying this week.

First, Ann Richards . Now, Orianna Fallaci . Here' s Michelle Malkin's tribute to Fallaci, focusing on her polemical last books. But...

RFQ and The Red Shirts.

The Vermont Guardian reports: [N]ew grassroots organizations have coalesced around the recovery effort. One, commonly known as The Red Shirt...

"We really slobbered over the old witch."

That was Richard Nixon's statement after meeting Indira Gandhi in 1971 -- according to recently released documents . And the charming He...

Faces seen around town.

A clown on a wall: An unrecognizable face on a lamppost: Gandhi on the sidewalk: Three faces on a wall: An elusive face in a shredded pos...

Madison on a bicycle racing day.

State Street was blocked off today for USCF national championship racing. Strangely makeshift safety was provided by duct taping old mattre...