Somehow the Google mind has arrived at a more appropriate portrait for me...

... when you search for my name . For the longest time they had a photo I'd done with an exaggerated expression pretending to have time ...

Happy 9th...

... my super brilliant and trusting wife, and thanks for authorizing me to co-blog if only to push the Amazon Associates program. It's f...

9th bloggiversary!

It was 9 years ago today that I started this blog . And it's been 9 years of blogging every single day — weekends, holidays, never a sin...

"I was reckless writing about recklessness."

I say, noting that I got quoted over at Instapundit with a missing "it's" apostrophe: "he’s entirely reckless about what...

Andrew Sullivan reaffirms the value of independent blogging.

After years of selling his traffic-pulling work to corporate enterprises — first The Atlantic and then The Daily Beast — announcing that he...

The Clinton clot plot thickens... or thins... with anti-coagulants.

So we were just talking about the oddities of the Clinton clot story. We noted that no sooner was it said that Hillary Clinton would testif...

Blogging, paying attention to each day as it happens, makes it hard to assess a whole year.

So I'll feel better once we've crossed over into the new year. All this year end business is a drag to me. I used to do these year-e...

"15 Things Overachievers Do."

Penelope Trunk's list is — in typical Trunk style — highly provocative, full of surprising details and counterintuitiveness. 2. They us...

Buttons offed.

I finally figured out how to rid this blog of those damned "share" buttons. It's not that I'm against sharing — on Christm...

"Middle seat gets both armrests. This way, everybody gets at least one armrest, and it best equalizes everybody's space."

"If you think that the shared armrests are for whoever first claims them — a rule that frequently would leave the middle-seater wedged ...

"We have of course gotten used to mommy bloggers embarrassing their children..."

"... saying which child they like best or how much they drink while stuck at home doing art projects." Louis C.K. regularly embarr...

Lawprof blogs.

Ranked by traffic. ADDED: A poll, suggested by the fact that while I'm still #1 — on this list that doesn't include Instapundit — my...

"The Internet's most ostentatiously blissful women — the curators of domesticity on Pinterest, Tumblr, and thousands of female-driven blogs..."

"... occupy a sexless aspirational world, a modern Douglas Sirk fantasy of color-saturated feminine mystique." So-called “food por...

"A blogger who urged readers to 'take up arms' against Connecticut officials..."

"... is suing state government leaders for $50 million after being acquitted of threatening and inciting violence charges." Harold...

"He will bring happiness in a pipe/He'll ride away on his silver bike/And apart from that he'll be so kind/In consenting to blow your mind..."

"Fat Angel," by Donovan (who wrote it) or The Jefferson Airplane ( live , with oil-based light show) and even Orange Alabaster Mu...

"Althouse: If you could write your 'How Obama Lost Me' post in the next 24 hours, the race could come down to your influence!"

Writes Ruth Anne Adams in the comments to the "last 72 hours" post. She adds "But if you're going the way of Colin Powel...

George Zimmerman's lawyer can keep blogging about the Trayvon Martin case.

Says the judge. During that hearing, [Zimmerman's lawyer Mark] O'Mara said his client had been the subject of a carefully orchestrat...

"If we don't, remember me."

A tumblr of "living movie stills" — beautifully done. Arrived at via TIME's "25 Best Blogs 2012."

BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski is at it again, providing yummy tidbits for lefties.

I'm not linking to BuzzFeed — no links for you! — but to Memeorandum .

Instapundit threatens to link-starve BuzzFeed.

"The Buzzfeed folks should also be concerned that folks on the right will be less willing to link them in the future, if they’re percei...