"Dems Nominate Anti-Gay Conspiracy Theorist for Senate."

"Mark Clayton... finished on top of a crowded primary field in the race to take on GOP Sen. Bob Corker this fall." He earned 26 pe...

"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."

It's Camille Paglia (who admits she's "leaning" toward Obama). She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it...

Fie on fluorescent.

Maybe fluorescent bulbs meet your needs, if you have meager lighting needs, but some of us care how things look and expect some glow , some ...

Is Gore running for President? "If he drops 25 to 30 pounds, he’s running."

That's Donna Brazile's tip on how to tell if Gore is running, as quoted by Maureen Dowd. ( TimesSelect link. ) Gore is out and about...

What does Mickey Kaus have against "This American Life"?

When I was driving home from Austin two Saturdays ago, I listened to a lot of talk radio. I especially enjoyed the hours when "This Ame...

The trick of "insulting upward."

Ann Coulter uses it, and so does that lawprof columnist Paul Campos -- who went to University of Michigan Law School with her -- Dave Kopel ...

"What Tennesseans will get will be a Jesus-loving..."

Jesus-loving ! I've never heard a candidate promise to be Jesus-loving . Wow! That's just not the way people talk in politics. But c...

"Oh, sure, there's some prejudice."

The WaPo article about Harold Ford Jr., the Democratic candidate for Senator in Tennessee, focuses on racial issues. The second paragraph i...

"I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn't help from crying..."

"When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line / I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be / I be...

Because Hollywood is anti-religion, because character conflicts make better film stories, or because the outlaw persona is so cool?

Why did they leave religion out of "Walk the Line"? "That dimension of Cash's life, which was present all the way through...

Blogs "have nothing to do with scholarship."

The National Law Journal has an article on lawprofs blogs: An increasing number of law professors are using blogs... to break free from tra...

On voting against Alito after voting for Roberts -- and that phrase "inexorable command."

Todd Zywicki asks how any Senator who voted for Roberts can vote against Alito and still claim to be principled. That question ought to sen...

Does the ADA just enforce existing rights for prisoners?

Linda Greenhouse reports on the oral argument in a key federalism case -- United States v. Georgia -- about whether prisoners can sue the s...

Audible Althouse, #11.

Hey, a new podcast! This time with theme music -- written by John Cohen, Brit Rice, and John Matlack, and performed by John Cohen (my son, ...

Judicial politics.

There's a lot of detail about the political reaction to the judiciary in this NYT article. Senate majority leader Frist is distancing h...

A survey.

Here is a survey (from professors at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and University of Tennessee-Knoxville) studying "the moti...

Dylan's "Chronicles": Chapter 4 (Part 2).

I continue with my reading of the Dylan autobiography. Scroll down to find four earlier posts. Man whose politics are described, surprisingl...

A new TV arrives, DVDs are deployed to test its quality, and, a propos of Kerry's new tan, the subject of disease perceived as health is discussed.

As noted a while back, my old television gave up on the color red, and I ordered a Sony HDTV . Waiting for it to be delivered, I kept watchi...

A little convention simulblogging.

I don't really want to watch the phony display that is a political party convention, but others in my household have turned it on, as I ...

More test results, withheld and revealed.

Well, Nina didn't like the state quiz because she didn't like the result. She won't say what state she came up as. This is kind...