The use of children in politics — if you find it persuasive, you'd better sharpen up.

Drudge is doing propaganda here: But it's very heavy-handed propaganda deployed to critique propaganda. You won't slip into falling...

Michelle Obama sends me email, saying "Ann, thank you."

That's the subject line. Inside, she continues this way: Ann -- I know your life is full -- with work, or school, or family -- and yet y...

"A Kentucky man's family was able to satisfy his dying wish this week and give a local waitress an emotional surprise when they gave her a $500 tip on a pizza."

I loved this story — which includes a viral video of the delighted waitress — until I got to the part about the website using this video to...

"A goat? In this restaurant? Eating pizza? No!"

Well... yeah .

"There. You'd better take a picture of that one, so people don't think I just make ugly half-pancakes."

So said Meade, delivering this, and thinking about this . And when I use the search-this-blog tool on "pancake," I get: "Can...

When Satan set his sights on America, the place were he was "most successful and first successful was in academia."

Said Rick Santorum in that 2008 speech at Ava Maria University. I've lived in that purported stronghold of Satan for the last quarter c...

Justice Scalia defines "pizza."

"I do indeed like so-called 'deep dish pizza.' It's very tasty... But it should not be called pizza. It should be called a ...

"Amanda Knox sez, I may not like Italy..."

"... but I love City Market's take and bake pizza. I take it home and slice it myself."

The difference between Occupy Wall Street and the Wisconsin protests.

Andy Kroll at Mother Jones identifies 3 main differences 1. Different organizers: In Wisconsin, "the day after Republicans reclaimed th...

"School garden organizers around Madison say running a garden is not without its challenges, and one of the biggest is getting teachers involved."

Should school teachers be doing the gardening? "Teachers just don't have the time," [Mary Michaud, a parent who started the ga...

Does the NYT care about the carbon footprint of its wonderful pizza-cooking technique?

"Heat the oven and pizza stone at 500 degrees for one hour..." Oh, hell! Shut up about my light bulbs. Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up....

Telling the old "Can you make me one with everything?" joke to the Dalai Lama.

That extreme awkwardness defines the expression "losing something in the translation."

The clown is not amused.

I love the array of characters in this picture (by me, from yesterday's Tea Party/anti-Tea Party protest). Enlarge . The girl in the Buc...

"Oh! I understand why it's such a small piece of steak."

"Meade is making steak pizza again!" "It smells delightful!" Mmmmmmm.... Beautiful!

A Saturday ride on the Military Ridge Trail.

We began in Blue Mounds: We got all the way to Ridgeway, 10 miles down: And headed back: To make a 20-mile ride... ... which seemed about ri...

Why the hell is Giuliani the keynote speaker for the Republican convention?

ADDED: Tomasky is from Guardian America and The New York Review of Books, and Lowry is from The National Review. There's something reall...