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...

"Frog fail."

Ha ha ha.

Today...

... I saw a frog. 2, actually. Not sure if the other pic — of a frog inside an old springhouse — came out.

"Before we set up a watch in my village of Little Melton, about 90 per cent of toads were being squashed to death at our crossings."

"Now it's down to about 10 per cent.... On a warm, wet night they can all come out at once... I was the only person scheduled to pa...

"All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions."

"In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs...

On the Glacial Drumlin Trail...

... east of Madison, beginning in Cottage Grove , we biked for about 18 miles today. I like an overcast sky with photographable clouds. But ...

Was Art Nouveau "the clumsy process of trying to 'dress up' the inorganic forms of modern construction in the false clothing of the natural world"?

That's what Walter Benjamin thought. If Benjamin was right about Art Nouveau in general, then Jean Carriès was a dissenter from the mov...

"A thousand years ago, popular birth control methods in the Western world included spitting into the mouth of a frog, eating bees and wearing the testicles of a weasel."

Actually, all those things work.

What are we looking for?

What are we finding? A toad. AND: Before there was Althouse + Meade, there was Meade + toad .

Vototron, the new interactive social contract.

Click here to enlarge for easy readability. Nice poster, no? Let's look at the website. The idea is to write and vote on the social co...

The revival of "traditional play" for children.

Check it out. Some people think kids ought to be encouraged to go outside and play tag and that sort of thing. Conn Iggulden [author of ...

Audible Althouse #45.

I hope you have some time to listen to my little podcast . It's about hail, using hail for ice in your drink, drinking way too much in t...

Surviving 10 weeks in the Outback on leeches and frogs.

The BBC reports: "The last thing I remember was driving up the road and getting a bit dazed and confused. "The next thing was wak...

"Everybody says I'm an asshole, and they're right, I am."

Says Kos -- Markos Moulitsas Zuniga -- in a big feature story in Washington Monthly. Talking with Moulitsas, like reading his blog, is a si...

"What do actresses see in their scruffy men?"

The International Herald Tribune inquires : The once glamorous Hollywood of Cary Grant and Steve McQueen has been taken over by greasy-haire...

"American Idol" -- the "girls."

It's "girls" night, and I expect to find it less entertaining than last night. But Randy does think they are going to "br...

Turtles, frogs.

A little girl was led by her father to the end of the wooden pier that extends into the Turtle Pond in Central Park. One second before she l...

Newark!

Ah, Satan's Laundromat is photoblogging Newark . These are my kind of photographs, and I will be heading to Newark at the end of this we...

The Triplets of Belleville: pure nonsense or French anti-Americanism?

The DVD of The Triplets of Belleville is out already (though the film is still in the theaters), and it arrived in the mail yesterday. So m...