Robin Givhan is sick of hearing about Michelle Obama's clothes.

Robin Givhan . If the robin is the first sign of spring, Robin Givhan being sick of the topic of Michelle's clothes is the last sign th...

49% of likely voters want "strict legal interpretation" of the Constitution.

And only 21% think that's what we're getting. 60% think the Supreme Court is giving us the so-called "living" version of t...

"And is it really good policy for Santorum to fill young adults with suspicions about higher learning..."

"... which rightly exists to challenge — in a healthy sense — what parents and maybe pastors have poured into them?" asks Frank Br...

"Wound licking is an instinctive response in humans and many other animals to an injury."

"Dogs, cats, rodents and primates all lick wounds. The enzyme, lysozyme which is found in many tissues is what is the aid for the wound...

The word "law" only appears once on the NYT list of "100 Notable Books of 2011."

Maybe the New York Times is missing some great law books , but this is some kind of read on something that ought to matter to legal academic...

"The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle."

That sentence, written by Sarah Palin, is howlingly awful. Written by Barack Obama? Brilliant. Just brilliant. Ha ha. That takes me back to ...

Sullyboating, Swiftboating, sandals, sticks, stickage, and strawberries.

Sullyboating. It's not Swiftboating. Let's see if I get Sullivan's argument - McCain's memory of a cross in the dirt is not ...

The L.A. ban on new fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods.

Isn't it outrageous to limit only the restaurants that cater to poor people ? The moratorium’s definition of a fast food business is any...

What does Barack Obama really think about affirmative action?

I read something that surprised me in today's Maureen Dowd column : "Obama didn’t even tell Harvard Law School that he was black on...

John Kerry does a terrible job of representing Barack Obama on "Meet the Press."

As Joe Lieberman dominated every exchange, John Kerry seemed to think it would work to sit back and make Stan Laurel faces: Kerry's per...

Nuances of dog talk.

A dog listens to a recording of himself and a dog-friend barking. About midway through, you can see he's deeply absorbed in the nuances...

Bill Clinton on Hillary Clinton: "Everything I'm saying here is my wife's position, not just mine."

Bill Clinton is out and about , burnishing his image, basking in the glow of attention. By the way, his wife is running for President. When ...

"If this were a wedding, we'd be at the 'speak now or forever hold your peace' part."

"If you're a candidate hoping to get past her, the time for nuance and veiled references has passed." Weddings... veils... Thi...

They loved what she said...

... but what did she say? Don't ask. They don't know. Ann Rivers, 41, came away from [Hillary] Clinton's speech at a banquet hel...

Candidates and torture... and blogger conference calls.

Here 's an L.A. Times piece that discusses the emerging differences between the Republican candidates over the use of aggressive techniq...

"Can you explain to me who that guy was in Sunday night's episode who was dining with Silvio when he got iced? What was that all about?"

LOL. "The Sopranos" does not insult your intelligence. The truth is, you have to watch the episode twice to understand it. More t...

"American Idol" -- The Finale!

It's the big finale tonight kids. Let's let Slate's music critic Jody Rosen set things up: [Katharine] McPhee would seem to be ...

I'm glad to see that Robin Givhan won a Pulitzer Prize.

Here 's the report in her newspaper, The Washington Post. The category is Criticism. Criticize all you want, but she's my favorite b...

"One of those Hollywood fictions that seem to befuddle those who miss the nuance in the words 'inspired by real events.'"

There's a phrase. It's from the NYT review of the film "Munich." Yes, you dare to carp at a prestige film that distorts ...

"Paris is burning, civil war, war zone, race riots -- the headlines, especially on TV, often have no nuance."

That's one of many complaints by the French about the bad press it's been getting. Your country is going to hell and you're beg...