My post title "Buttons offed" made one reader picture "2 hands clasping the lapels of their own jacket and ripping them apart to reveal not a blouse but 2 voluptuous naked breasts."

"Buttons offed, pop pop, that's the image that happens" — says commenter Chip Ahoy , prompting Dr Weevil to say "Photosho...

Why are people having so much trouble understanding rhetorical devices?

You may remember Justice Scalia the other day tweaking the kids at Princeton for not being able to handle r eductio ad absurdum : It's ...

"He will bring happiness in a pipe/He'll ride away on his silver bike/And apart from that he'll be so kind/In consenting to blow your mind..."

"Fat Angel," by Donovan (who wrote it) or The Jefferson Airplane ( live , with oil-based light show) and even Orange Alabaster Mu...

"1,583 COMMENTS."

Hey! Thanks for all the comments on last night's election live-blog , from which I absented myself after a post at 8:04, noting the obvi...

624 comments on the live-blogging thread last night.

Did the spam-bots find out I'd turned off word verification for commenting? I'll check it out . There's our liberal commenter Li...

"Predictable Althouse is predictable."

Says a familiar lefty commenter , provoking me to say: Does that include the idea — see Ipso Fatso, supra — that I'm surely going to vo...

My commenters will say "why are you talking to that horrible man?"

"I'll kick their ass in the comment for you, okay, Bob?"

Why I don't delete mobys in the comments section to this blog.

First, I love free expression, and one way to express a viewpoint is to say the opposite. It's sarcasm. It can be comedy. Look at Stephe...

"Unknown animals are appearing all over the place you know, global warming and all that."

Wrote Chip Ahoy in the comments to last night's post "Fox news," about our sighting of a fox running across the frozen Lake M...

Want to talk about comments?

Here 's the permanent location for complaints and suggestions and discussions about the comments here on the Althouse blog. Meade and I ...

"A challenge to our commenters: Just try to out-racist your counterparts over at Ann Althouse’s blog."

See? This is the kind of thing I have to contend with. Web writers who don't like me or don't like whatever side of politics they t...

Local journalist Bill Wineke demagogues the Wisconsin Supreme Court story... and slimes me.

This, published at channel3000, is so lame I hate to send it any traffic, but I want you to see the kind of thing that passes for mainstrea...

When this blog goes independent, you'll have to register to comment.

It will be like the commenting process over at Volokh . How do you feel about that? Will you comment at the newly independent Althouse blog?...

"I'm so glad you posted this. I've been trying to convince my husband not to read your blog for weeks and this finally did the trick.."

Comment at the end of a long thread.

"Comments are incredibly slow this morning," I say out loud before suddenly realizing...

"I know why!" Good for all of you who are celebrating Mother's Day!

Joe Blow wins the thread!

Do you like it when a commenter says that so-and-so "wins the thread"? Yes, it's snappy and adorable. If you disagree, disagre...

How did Althouse get to be #1 on the ranking of law prof blogs?

( Here are the rankings.) So, then, how did this happen? Instapundit would unquestionably be #1, but Glenn had to take his public Site Mete...

"Also I don't want to be on television. It's become boring, arse-paralysingly brain crippling."

Says Elton John, explaining why he didn't want the job of "American Idol" judge. He kind of indicates that if he'd gone o...

Why is Ta-Nehisi Coates shouting an obscenity at me?

He writes: Ta-Nahesi Coates. Fuckin' Althouse. My name's at the top of the blog and I still can't get Ann's respect. The li...

"Hi, I like this article but... Can someone tell me about Barack Obama?"

"I know that he is a serious candidate for '08, but I would like to know where he stands on the issues. I checked his site but nowh...