One tuna fish, sold for $1,763,000.

It weighed 489 pounds, which is $3,603 a pound. Sliver it into nearly weightless sashimi, and presumably customers won't choke on the p...

How I spent the winter break between semesters at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

I sat in my Freedom Chair or stood at my motorized desk in front of a wall of picture windows looking out over our snow-covered yard thou...

"It's broadly accepted by those who have known them, an outdoor dog indoors lives a rich imaginative life."

"Some do. Special dogs do. Handlers and owners respond to these special animals automatically without even realizing sometimes exactly ...

"There is now a live stream of bears gathering to eat salmon at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park."

Lovely! It's not dark yet in Alaska, so you can see the bears right now.

What is Obama pointing at?

The Drudge headline says "Unrelenting," and the link goes to "Unrelenting Obama jabs at Romney's job record." But l...

"My fish died when I wasn't home. Asked my cousin to give him a proper flushing.."

"She sent me this."

Wisconsin protests of the all-you-can-eat-fish-fry kind.

"We asked for more fish, and they refused to give us more fish."

Why are we so hostile to non-natives?

"Giant cannibal shrimp more than a FOOT long invade waters off Gulf Coast." The black-and-white-striped shrimp can grow 13 inches ...

"It’s totally maddening... They’re just doing it to make all the green people happy."

Whole Foods will no longer sell "red rated fish."

"The other day I gave her mash and fishfingers for dinner — something quite boring — and her response was 'That’s impressive,' so she has a sense of humor, too."

An English dad describes the experience of living with a 4-year-old genius.  ADDED: Confession: I had to Google to make sure "mash...

At the Tuna Fish Café...

... experience dollops of joy.

Everything Mark Twain wanted to eat...

... when he arrived home in the United States of America after traveling around in France and Italy in 1870: Radishes. Baked apples, with cr...

"Isn’t this the last guy who should be pointing fingers and accusing others of taking pills for recreational purposes?"

Maureen Dowd takes a shot at Rush Limbaugh , kind of missing the point, because no one doubts that Rush paid for his own recreational pills....

"A 1-hour elementary school lesson on gender diversity featuring all-girl geckos and transgender clownfish caused a stir in Oakland..."

"... with conservative legal defense organizations questioning the legitimacy of the topic and providing legal counsel to parents who o...

Best paragraph in the obituary of the 104-year-old heiress Huguette Clark.

"For the quarter-century that followed [her mother's death], Mrs. Clark lived in the apartment in near solitude, amid a profusion o...

"The difference between an idea and a theory is that the first can generate an agenda — a call to action — and the second cannot."

"Those who believe that women have long been marginalized and suppressed have something to do — propose legislation, stage rallies, wit...

"Does mocking and belittling your goldfish make you feel like a big man..."

"... Ziggy?"

Next to the meat, concern for the fish... and for fraud... chanting "shame"... yelling "Koch suckers!" at a 14-year-old girl... laughing at Andrew Breitbart's "Go to Hell!"

Yesterday, at the Capitol Square, there was a big Tea Party rally, starring Sarah Palin, but it was opening day for the Dane County Farmers...

"No swimming! If we find you in the pond, we shall assume you are a trout and pan-fry you."

At Rushing Waters Fisheries , where Whole Foods in Madison gets the rainbow trout we got at Whole Foods in Madiso n and Meade wants to catch...

"I can hardly wait for The Althouse Woman to tear Maureen Dowd a new one today on MD's put down of Bob Dylan performing in China."

Meade reads me that comment from AllenS at the Crocus Café just as the last track of the vinyl record "New Morning" ends. We...