At the Santa Claus Café...

... the traditionalists here at Althouse seem to believe that Christmas is not complete without this photograph from 1953.

Did you get what you wanted?

Like I did, back in 1958:

"Cornball brother."

There's a current controversy about some ESPN commentator musing over whether RG3 is a "cornball brother." "My question,...

"Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style."

Okay , but $8.1 million isn't that much considering the magnitude of the success of the thing. On the other hand, it's the kind of t...

"The passage of right-to-work legislation in the state House and Senate may have Lansing in turmoil..."

"... but residents of Ann Arbor learned yesterday of a more immediate concern." Krazy Jim's Blimpy Burger, a staple for U of M...

4 reasons why Republicans don't need to feel that bad.

Chris Cillizza link-grabbingly scrounges up some hope for the seemingly hopeless: 1. The party’s superstars are coming of age.... Sen. Marco...

Extwinktion.

The end of Twinkies. What will you eat instead? Whipped cream right out of the can. Sugar, spooned from the bowl, with a side of cream. Stic...

"My daughter has repeatedly brought home books from the school library that I have a problem with. I'm a feminist and I'm anti-censorship. I'm lost."

So wrote a woman at Ask Metafilter: Yesterday, for the THIRD time, LittleTaff brought home a fairy tale... this time Rapunzel. Objectified w...

"International and intercultural marriages are the quickest way to bring about an ideal world of peace."

"People should marry across national and cultural boundaries with people from countries they consider to be their enemies so that the w...

Helen Gurley Brown — the magnificent Cosmopolitan editor — has died at the age of 90.

Goodbye to a great lady. "Helen Gurley Brown was an icon. Her formula for honest and straightforward advice about relationships, career...

"I don't care about Chick Fil A or gay marriage. I do care about observing my friends engaging in groupthink right there in front of me...."

Writes Chip Ahoy, in the Chick-fil-A thread a few posts down. Don't like that. It's a very unsightly thing to behold, everyone stan...

"Depression-era green was the enduring color scheme."

Remembering Drake's Sandwich Shops. Through the Great Depression, World War II, the Baby Boom, the Beatles, Vietnam, Watergate, disco, a...

Why don't more girls sign up for the automotive technology class?

Is that a difficult question? Females were once completely excluded from some things that very few of us wanted to do. That's the way it...

"Cosmo remains the ne plus ultra of usually implausible, occasionally unfathomable, and invariably hilarious sexy tips..."

... so here are the 44 most ridiculous ones. Did I ever tell you about the job I had (before I went to law school) reading magazines? We pr...

"Friends, Romans, countrymen..."

This amused me. Cowboy style. I ran across it because I was looking for the text to the famous Mark Antony speech, which I'd been forc...

WaPo highlights a child's delight in discovering 2 males having sex.

It's horseshoe crab mating time in Delaware. The arthropod orgy was well underway when Breanne Preisen trudged over the low dune onto th...

Obama announces his retirement from politics.

I received email from the President just now. The subject line: My last campaign. Ann -- In a few days, I'll be hitting the trail for my...

"Somehow I get the feeling that when young Ann Althouse refused to eat the carrots on her dinner plate, her parents just sighed and got out the Cap'n Crunch."

Roy Edroso cuts and pastes some of my very best material onto his blog, but leaves me out of his Village Voice column "Dog Soldiers: R...

"I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear..."

"... nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary." I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of ...

"Baseball as a Road to God" — the name of a course at NYU.

Taught by John Sexton: As the president of N.Y.U., Dr. Sexton could certainly teach any course he wanted. And as the former dean of its law ...