At the Micro-Climate Café...

... you can have your coffee iced or extra hot, you can sit near the door or over by the fireplace, and you can be perfectly pleasant or giv...

"For every inch above normal rainfall, overall turnout drops by a little less than 1%, but Democratic turnout drops by 2.5%."

"Every inch above average snowfall decreases turnout by 0.5%. Since the water equivalent of 10 inches of snow usually equals an inch of...

At the Equine Dentist Café...

... take the scenic route home.

"For those who insist they've located the least essential, or least sport-y Olympic discipline..."

"... may I present — via Kon Ichikawa's essential 1965 documentary Tokyo Olympiad — 50 kilometer Olympic race-walking?" Wait! ...

Waterfalls.

Despite the drought in southern Wisconsin, there's been plenty of rainfall up north, and, as a consequence, the waterfalls are looking q...

"It sends the wrong message to distraught farmers when the Agriculture Secretary suggests that the best response is to pray."

"For a Cabinet official to recommend prayer as a solution or call attention to his own devotions may violate the Constitution’s prohibi...

"Daybreak Sunday found 789,358 in the Washington region still without power..."

"... facing another sweltering day and the prospect of returning to work Monday before electricity is restored to their homes." Se...

"Deadly storms, intense heat bring misery to millions."

Are you okay?

Polar bear flees its zoo pen in Duluth, escaping the flood.

There was some heavy rain up at Lake Superior today. “Even though it’s a large white object, it’s pretty nerve racking,” police spokesman Ji...

What's going on in Wisconsin?

It's like a hurricane. (Did that make you think this ?)

Tuesday sunset.

In the rain.

Sarah Palin to speak at the tea party rally at the Capitol today.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports in a tiny article the bulk of which promotes the counter-protest: The scene at the Wisconsin state Capi...

Caught in a rainstorm, ducking into a small-town libraray, I read the Utne Reader yesterday.

I used to subscribe back in the 80s, when I loved it. But what is it now? I found the cover pretty amusing: I can't find a bigger pictu...

Drudge is giving Obama a hard time this morning.

There's this at the top : Drudge dogged him back in the spring of '08 for looking dorky on a bicycle. You'd think his people wo...

Rain and tulips.

At the Farmers Market this morning, in Madison, Wisconsin.