Shameful, lowly race-baiting... but who's doing it?

So somebody got a picture of the back of a man — no face, no name — in a T-shirt that says — on the back — "Put the White Back in the W...

Bill Maher defends Eastwood: "He went up there without a net, on a tightrope... he did a bit with just an empty chair and killed."

"He committed to it, it was consistent, and it worked." Maher is speaking as a standup comedian, knowing how hard it is. Halfway t...

"Shaving your balding head is like breaking up with someone before he or she can break up with you."

"Or like marching into your boss’s office and saying: 'You can’t fire me. I quit.'" After all, nothing screams “gradual de...

In the middle of writing about pessimism, David Rakoff finds out that the burning pain in his shoulder, that pinched nerve...

... is a tumor. Here he is — bald and hilarious — talking about his book. Watch for the reference to the Roberts Court... The Daily Show Wit...

Mitch Daniels? Not glamorous?

Via Instapundit , Michael Barone profiles Mitch Daniels and ends on a predictable downbeat: You can almost see the green eyeshade as he spe...

Iggy Pop says law is for "for hideous bald fat dead people. The living dead."

"In America, in school... I learnt creative writing, I learnt advanced algebra and geometry, but I didn’t learn there was such a thing ...

Ron Howard does a really cool pro-Obama thing.

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"The tattoo community sees them as posers. It’s like going out in the 1960s to buy a Beatles wig."

Said Bob Baxter , the editor of the tattoo journal Skin & Ink, of people who get hand or neck tattoos before they've inked up the re...

Why men shave their heads.

Christina Reihill writes: While the idea of the modern man as a hairless metrosexual more interested in manicures than motors challenges my ...

So here's the new New Yorker cover.

Get it? Obama says: "I have no response to that." The campaign adds: The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to ...

What do we know about Barack Obama, the "community organizer"?

I'd really like to understand more about what Barack Obama did under the heading "community organizer," so I jumped to read th...

"But they've given a 22-year-old woman the legs and bottom of an 80-year-old."

Is some nefarious paparazzo photoshopping cellulite onto pictures of Mischa Barton's thighs? Here 's the picture. There's a who...

George Jones, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Louis Armstrong, Van Morrison...

Those are the artists Bob Dylan has played most often on "Theme Time Radio Hour" — from a nice, long set of lists of things from...

"Does he have sex appeal?... Can you smell the English leather on this guy?"

"Does he have sex appeal? . . . Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man's shaving cre...

About all that hair.

We all know by now that Christopher Hitchens got a "back, sack and crack wax." So let's move on to a general contemplation of...

On blog dress and lawprof dress.

When did Stephen Bainbridge's blog start looking so devoid of Bainbridginess? Last Friday, I was going to blog about his post on dress c...

Still trying to recover from that horrible "American Idol" last night...

Entertainment Weekly has some good advic e for next season's final show: Don't allow any non-Idol performers to take the stage — unl...

"American Idol" -- the final 7.

How do you do a cheesy singing contest show the day after a massacre? Ryan Seacrest, in somber lighting, backed by quiet pulsing music, asks...

"I'm so not sexy."

Says Melinda Doolittle, responding to Jennifer Lopez, who's encouraging her to reveal her sexuality on this week's "American Id...

Nancy Pelosi covers her head and visits the head of John the Baptist.

So Nancy Pelosi is visiting Syria , and President Bush is calling it "unhelpful." There's plenty of political theater here. Th...