"Now that Tampa is out of harm's way, mostly from Isaac, I'm alarmed to see what might happen in New Orleans."

"Head's up, all you central Gulf Coasters!" says MadisonMan, in the comments on the Crist thread , and Meade points me to this...

"Twenty years ago, 12-year-old Jeremiah McDonald recorded himself asking his future self questions about how his life had turned out."

"Twenty years later, McDonald, now a filmmaker, finally sat down to answer those questions." (Via MadisonMan .)

"I would take a Johnsonville brat from the hand of a Koch brother if it were offered with the proper condiments and a good beer."

Citizen Dave explains Wisconsin values. IN THE COMMENTS: The Farmer said: "Bravo, ex-Mayor Dave! And MadisonMan said: "Yes, Bravo ...

"The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan's professionalism and work ethic. ... He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism."

A 2007 memo: Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's in...

Palpatinian tranche.

I've been reading and listening to people talk for over a half century, so it's really weird to have to look up 2 words in 2 hours. ...

A petite crowd collects for the Michelle Obama rally in Madison.

One of my favorite commenters, Madison Man, just happens to have an office window overlooking the scene: The time is 10:30 a.m. Notices for ...

About Bristol Palin's pregnancy: "People are looking for real. Real means blemishes, real means warts, real means real."

Says Mark Sanford , the Governor of South Carolina, spinning the news. "These family imperfections make people say, 'That family is...

In our Palinsanity, we need a Palindrome: Harass Sarah.

I'm up way too early this morning, not because I personally am tossing and turning over the Palinsanity that has seized the blogosphere,...

Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol is pregnant!

Astounding! WaPo reports: The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday i...

Olympics open thread.

Because MadisonMan asked for it.

Should we care about Bill Ayers?

City Journal's Sol Stern brings us up to date on the post-Weatherman, present-day activities of Bill Ayers. (Ayers has attracted atten...

Okay, everybody, elbows up!

Inflatable Bucky is here on Bascom Mall today: Wiggle around: He's got free doughnuts. And — in musical form, at least — tequila: IN THE...

"She doesn't want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats."

The Clinton brand! Drudge reports: Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-r...

SoHo tablescape.

Had to go into town to pick up a new pair of glasses. Got a sandwich and some pea soup at a favorite place on Prince Street. Snapped a table...

"Giuliani and religious right meet on the road to political adulthood."

Writes Daniel Henniger in the Wall Street Journal: Call me old-fashioned, but I think governing philosophy is more important than the endle...

Is this any way to treat...

... Juan Williams? IN THE COMMENTS: Madison Man asks what Juan Williams thinks of this. The answer is here : Williams said yesterday he was ...

Goodbye, Kitty.

Kitty Carlisle Hart has died : "the supremely elegant actress, singer, arts advocate and TV personality" was 96. I remember seeing...

Let's keep talking about breasts.

Jessica Valenti is writing in The Guardian and connecting the violent threats against Kathy Sierra to my old blog post making fun of a pho...

The Saturday blogger meet-up.

If you're in NYC at 5 p.m. this Saturday and want to get in on the meet-up with me and various regular readers of this blog -- including...

"So what did Neanderthal women do all day?"

The usual evidence of division of labor by sex -- needles, small animal remains, grinding stones -- is missing, so anthropologists Steven L...