Quick! Check out the UW hawk-cam.

It's dinnertime. Rabbit is served. In other Wisconsin bird news: "Bald eagles recover from eating euthanized cats."

"It can get a little gory, watching the parents tear up rabbits and squirrels, but that's nature."

"I just think it's been nice for us to be able to put it out there so a worldwide audience can watch these hawks."

Meade wants to live in a shipping container.

He's always sending me stuff like this . We do have a plan to move into a smaller dwelling sooner or later, but it's disturbing to r...

"The boiling of millions of penguins on a remote Antarctic island triggered one of the first international wildlife campaigns."

"A century on, DNA analysis proves it has been a success. Now, Macquarie Island's king penguins must face rampaging rabbits." ...

What the "Occupy Madison" encampment looked like today...

( Enlarge .) It's exiled on East Washington Avenue. Meanwhile, at the Capitol Square... the protesting is enigmatic and infiltrated with...

"He's got the bunny outfit, a cowboy suit and a ballerina dress..."

"... but you don't see him except where he's tripping through his backyard... He's got a strange lifestyle at home but we a...

Mickey Kaus thinks it's "odd" that people aren't connecting “Obama” and “Boehner Plan” and “briar patch.”

He's got an argument that he thinks is so good, he's surprised no one has made it using the term "briar patch": [I]sn’t th...

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...

The conservative mindset. The liberal mindset.

This half of a Pogo cartoon strip by Walt Kelly says it all: Photographed from the framed original on display at the Mustard Museum in Mount...

Could Tim Russert please be more boring?

Matt Yglesias is outraged — just outraged — at Tim Russert. How dare that man drive politicians into a corner with tough questions instead...

"Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn."

This line, from yesterday's blogger conference , is making quite the sensation . And rightly so! McCain hilariously combines two embarra...

Another blogger conference call with McCain.

Starting momentarily. I don't have a question planned. Too busy getting that podcast up and so forth. I'm not going to ask why he sa...

Places where we ate, in and around Austin.

There was always another café: That's Café Mundí. Waiting for food at The Salt Lick: (The answer to Question 2 .) At Vespaio, we split t...

Omikase/"American Idol"

Oh! I'm sorry. I didn't watch "American Idol." We went out to a cool Austin restaurant called Uchi . We ordered the omikas...

Do you need to call in a consultant to make your home "relationship ready"?

Some people do! The place is also dimly lighted, which, once you examine the kitchen nook in daylight, is probably not such a bad thing. The...

"I'm a 67-year-old fat, white-haired, liver-spotted woman."

Oh! It's Grace Slick! She's old and fat and doesn't mind telling you so. And she's doing art now -- pictures, panned by cri...

"Our long national nightmare is over."

I woke up to the long-familiar words in the familar voice of our long-lived former President, Gerald Ford. NPR was reporting what I already ...

"The pay was low and the insecurity great. Jay felt the writers should pay him."

So said Christopher Robert Hayward about Jay Ward, of Jay Ward Productions, which made the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. Hayward, who has d...

Holiday.

The commenters on the previous post claim to be suffering from withdrawal on account of low Althouse bloggage today, so let me give you anot...